Mayo Clinic launched an AI-enabled clinical decision support solution embedded directly in electronic health record workflows. The CDS solution will put Mayo’s clinical knowledge and evidence-informed guidance at the point of care, rather than requiring clinicians to search across separate resources.
Mayo Clinic Platform, a strategic initiative from the Rochester, Minn.-based health system, developed the tool, and it will be expanded and updated over time, executives said. The solution draws on multiple clinical tools, reducing the need for clinicians to navigate independent resources to find trusted clinical information.
Mayo Clinic is making the CDS tool available to Mayo Clinic clinicians as well as healthcare organizations participating in Mayo Clinic Platform's provider programs. Mayo Clinic is essentially turning its clinical expertise into scalable AI infrastructure available beyond its own health system.
Beginning in November, eligible clinicians will have access to two key capabilities: a specialty-specific chat that covers more than 35 specialties and 22 clinical calculators available via chat or voice dictation.
Powered by a large language model, the specialty-specific AI chat tool surfaces relevant information to help clinicians reason through complex cases and cites responses from peer-reviewed literature. The tool is updated daily, giving clinicians access to relevant emerging evidence alongside established medical knowledge, executives said. The tool helps clinicians quickly answer patient-specific clinical questions, explore differential diagnoses and evaluate care options. And the specialty-specific AI chat mirrors Mayo Clinic's subspecialty model of care.
The clinical calculators, spanning cardiology, oncology, hepatology, endocrinology and other specialty use cases, provide industry-standard medical information and evidence-based decision support on clinical questions and patient care context. Proprietary Mayo Clinic-developed calculators are included in this tool, according to the health system.
"Clinicians have access to a vast amount of medical knowledge, but finding relevant information for individualized patient care takes valuable time," said Maneesh Goyal, Mayo Clinic Platform chief operating officer, in a statement. "With this new solution, we are bringing trusted Mayo Clinic knowledge directly into the clinical workflow so clinicians can spend less time searching for information across multiple resources and more time focused on patient care."
The platform is "designed to evolve" as new tools are added to Mayo Clinic Platform, executives say.
David C. and Flora C. Pratt Distinguished Chief Medical Officer for Mayo Clinic Platform Gelareh Zadeh, M.D., Ph.D., said in a statement the solution "does not replace clinical judgment."
"Mayo Clinic physicians have provided feedback on the different tools to ensure the solution supports clinicians and reflects Mayo Clinic's approach to patient care," Zadeh said.