Mayo Clinic Shares De-Identified Patient Dataset with BD in New Partnership

June 16, 2022

The health IT vendor Becton, Dickinson, and Company (BD) has partnered with the Mayo Clinic to gain access to its de-identified patient database, the Mayo Clinic Platform_Discover. The platform is a robust resource of electronic health records (EHR) from 10 million patients, with over a billion lab test results and over 640 million clinical notes. BD will use artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analytics to process the vast pool of real-world data (RWD) to help forecast device use for clinical trials.

According to, “For years, randomized control trials have been considered the gold standard in evaluating safety and efficacy for medical devices, but experts from industry and academia who are examining the tight parameters around clinical trials are seeing added value in leveraging insights from real-world data to truly understand whether we are meeting patients’ needs.”

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(Source: HIT Infrastructure, June 15th, 2022)

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