Mayo Clinic, Mercy to develop, commercialize patient-care algorithms

Mayo Clinic and Mercy health system have formed a 10-year collaboration to develop and commercialize algorithms that tailor patient treatment plans, the health systems said Tuesday.

As part of the agreement, researchers at Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo and St. Louis-based Mercy will identify patterns related to disease prevention and treatments by studying patient data from the two systems. The data, which is de-identified, will be stored…