With the goal of leveraging more AI to glean insights from its datasets consisting of medical records, imaging, genomics and more, Truveta, the provider-led data collaborative, recently announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as its exclusive cloud platform.
The organization, which includes 17 major U.S. health systems – including AdventHealth, Northwell, Novant, Providence and Trinity Health – says the strategic partnership will boost its research efforts with cloud-based analytics tools and artificial intelligence.
Through their strategic partnership, Microsoft and Truveta will work together to scale the Truveta platform globally, introduce new customers to Truveta and accelerate opportunities for more health providers to become members.
"Healthcare providers and researchers need better data and faster answers to address the most challenging issues in patient care – not just for this pandemic, but for all health conditions," noted Truveta CEO Terry Myerson, at the time of the announcement. ”Together with Microsoft, we're working to accelerate saving lives with data and advancing health equity around the globe. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert and help families make the most informed decisions about their care.”
According to the organization, with Azure, Truveta's member providers will be managing billions of data points, making up what's being touted as the largest de-identified health data platform in the world.
Said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft's executive vice president, Cloud + AI, in a statement, "Building on the security and scalability of Azure and its AI capabilities, Truveta's data platform will empower clinicians and researchers to find new therapies and treatments."
Seattle-based Truveta was launched in February 2021 as a collaborative between 14 blue-chip organizations with the goal of drawing on their own troves of normalized data, sell anonymized datasets for other health systems to use for pop health and precision medicine research. The organization’s leaders say tha by representing a diverse cross-section of U.S. patients' age, geography, race, ethnicity and gender, the goal is to build a robust foundation for analytics insights as providers nationwide tackle population health management initiatives, drive discovery of new treatments and therapeutics and work for improved health equity.
“The best care in the world is somewhere, but not everywhere. Patients with the same condition can have widely disparate outcomes,” noted Angela Yochem, Executive Vice President & Chief Transformation and Digital Officer, Novant Health, at the time of the announcement. “The Truveta platform can help address these inequities by building our collective understanding, leading to discovery and better care for all communities. We have been able to provide a great deal of insights to physicians through advanced technology and with Truveta’s unprecedented data platform and powerful tools, we’ll see insights increase exponentially.”
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