Mayo Clinic Life Sciences System

David Snow, Mayo Amasses Mounds of Data, Wired, December 22 2003.

"The database, called the Mayo Clinic Life Sciences System … groups 4.4 million patients according to factors they have in common and includes both historical data and comprehensive information on Mayo Clinic patients dating back to 1997…Health-care professionals look forward to the eventual addition of patients’ genetic information to databases like the MCLSS — a field known as clinical genomics — as a major advance in medicine. Among other things, such access would allow doctors to divine with great speed and accuracy what drugs have worked best on a certain type of person with a certain illness…Mayo Clinic database developers said they have no timeline for the inclusion of genetic data, but expect it will happen in the next two to five years."

The database is a collaboration between the Mayo Clinic and IBM Life Sciences, which earlier this year announced a collaboration with UCSF.  Read my post here.

January 8, 2004 | Filed Under electronic-health-records, genomic-data, pharmacogenomics-pharmacogenetics-pgx 

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