Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic join 5 others in data-sharing group

Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic have joined five other health organizations in a data-sharing collaborative that’s aimed at improving quality and reducing cost.

The health systems will join the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice with the goal of establishing best practices for treating eight common health conditions and treatments, according to a statement from Dartmouth. The collaborative then hopes that its best practices will be replicated across the country.

The conditions and treatments are: knee replacement, diabetes, heart failure, asthma, weight loss surgery, labor and delivery, spine surgery, and depression.

The participants are billing the program as a “first-of-its-kind” collaboration.

In addition to Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic, the four health systems participating in the Dartmouth project are: Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Denver Health, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare. The health systems have a combined patient population greater than 10 million.

The Dartmouth Institute will coordinate data sharing and analysis, and report results back to the collaborative members to inform development of best practices, according to the statement.