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    Deciphering the Puzzle of Dementia

    December 17, 2025

    By John Halamka and Paul Cerrato — A diagnosis of dementia often disrupts the lives of patients and their families. AI-enabled algorithms can provide a more definitive diagnosis, and in some cases help detect curable forms of the condition.

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I recently told several of my Mayo colleagues that I'm an outsider who has landed in a new environment where the degree of collaboration, dialog,[...]

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Recently, my colleague Steve Peters, chief medical information officer, Mayo Clinic, and I discussed our life experiences as CMIOs. We talked about how the role[...]

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A New Model for Sharing Insights While Protecting Privacy
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Last week at JP Morgan, Mayo Clinic announced a new collaboration with nference that I would describe as "Cloud-hosted, de-identified, federated learning in which the[...]

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Although I've been attending healthcare and technology conferences for more than 40 years (yes, I attended Comdex in 1979), but until this week had never[...]

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One of our Mayo Clinic Platform team, Emily Wampfler, recently forwarded me an overview of MIT's Platform conferenceRead the Barclay's piece.   It notes that 55,000[...]

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