This week's episode of Tomorrow's Cure comes to you from the PlatforMed Conference, held in June 2025 in Minneapolis. The event brought together more than 250 global leaders across healthcare, government, academia and business to explore the future of healthcare.

Hosted by Mayo Clinic, the conference examined how platform thinking is transforming clinical care. This forward-looking approach encourages multiple organizations to collaborate to co-create greater value for patients and consumers. In healthcare, platform thinking accelerates innovation, empowers clinicians and expands access to high-quality care.

Throughout the event, healthcare leaders joined Tomorrow's Cure host Cathy Wurzer to share their insights on the future of medicine. The episode features conversations with:

• John Halamka, M.D., Dwight and Dian Diercks President, Mayo Clinic Platform
• Maneesh Goyal, chief operating officer, Mayo Clinic Platform
• Clark Otley, M.D., chief medical officer, Mayo Clinic Platform 
• Sonya Makhni, M.D., medical director, Applied Informatics, Mayo Clinic Platform 
• Aashima Gupta, global director of healthcare strategy and solutions, Google Cloud 
• Rodrigo Bornhausen Demarch, M.D., chief innovation officer, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein 
• Patrick Woodard, M.D., chief information officer, Monument Health 
• Deepak Abraham, Ph.D., chief of medical staff, American Misson Hospital; medical director, King Hamad American Mission Hospital 

Mayo Clinic Platform is the first healthcare platform of its kind, connecting a global ecosystem of data, solution developers and healthcare professionals to drive innovation and deliver new cures.

Goyal highlights Mayo Clinic Platform's global mission, "The purpose of Mayo Clinic Platform is to enable others to deliver high-quality care based on what we know and have learned across our 160 years. So it's about scalability. Our primary call to action is how do we enable 50% of the healthcare providers globally to benefit from Mayo Clinic so that we can impact billions of lives? That’s a platform model. What we’re trying to do with healthcare is: How can we do that? And how can we do that at large scale?"

Mayo Clinic Platform not only connects de-identified clinical data from geographically and ethnically diverse populations, but also powers smarter care delivery:

• Enhancing efficiency – Reducing administrative burden so clinicians can focus on patients, not paperwork.
• Accelerating insights – Integrating digital solutions into clinical workflows to improve accuracy and speed of decision-making.
• Advancing research – Providing a wealth of data to develop tailored treatments and tackle rare, serious and complex diseases.

By linking past patient data to guide future care, Mayo Clinic Platform enables more personalized medicine, improves hospital operations and supports a more sustainable, patient-centered healthcare system.

Dr. Halamka closed the conference with an inspiring call to action, "So, you are here to make a difference. You're here to make an impact. You're here to be part of global transformation of healthcare, and you're here at a time where the only way to do it is partnership and collaboration around platform thinking."

Listen to this inspiring episode of Tomorrow's Cure at tomorrowscure.com. To learn more about Mayo Clinic Platform, visit mayoclinicplatform.org.

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