By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
Since 2012, Mosaic Life Care has been a part of the Mayo Clinic Care Network and celebrated that relationship this week.
Mayo Clinic Chief Medical Officer Doctor Clark Otley says the relationship with Mosaic has continued to grow through 10 years.
"And probably exceeded what we've grown," Otley tells reporters. "I'd say the Mosaic team is pretty unique, they are very engaged with the relationship, and it's like anything the more you put into it the more you get out of it, so we've got Mosaic physicians who visit Mayo Clinic, we've got teams that join with the Mayo Clinic teams and figure stuff out."
Otley says the mutual sharing of information and technology between the hospitals has benefited both the Mayo Clinic and Mosaic by helping to keep patients local and with caregivers they trust.
Otley says patient care is a big focus for the Mayo Clinic which he sees mirrored at Mosaic. Otley says what advances that care is research.
"So, we bring that, which we have NIH grants that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars to advance that research, well not every medical center can do that, and then part of our philanthropy goes to our research as well," Otley explains. "So, we kind of bring the results of that research and share that with Mosaic so they don't have to build up a gigantic research branch to access that kind of knowledge."
Otley says the Mayo Clinic is also aiding Mosaic's new medical school and passing on best practices to educate future doctors and nurses, which Otley says will give Mosaic students a significant jump starts in their education.
The Mayo Clinic is responsible for one of the largest graduate medical education programs in the world.
While Mosaic and the Mayo Clinic celebrate the 10-year relationship between the two hospitals, the thought becomes, what could come in the future of it?
Otley says after being limited by technology prior to this year, things are becoming even more clear of ways to share data between the two hospitals.
"And so, for all of our Mayo Clinic Care Network members we have a big push to try to maximize the use of our data to get the best possible care," Otley says. "And there are some pretty amazing things that are coming out, including analyzing what's called an ECG, it's a heart tracing."
Otley says currently you can only trace on the surface level which is easy to read. But he adds that there is further technology that can read not only what the heart was doing, but what it could do in the future.
Otley says technology like that at both Mayo and Mosaic could help detect certain heart problems well before they ever happen to patients.