The prestigious Mayo Clinic announced recently that it is launching its own nationwide cancer treatment network, one that will provide its partners with access to the Clinic's physicians.
The first member of the new network will be the Coborn Cancer Center in St. Cloud. Under the partnership, Coborn will "share medical records with Mayo physicians, which could save patients time and money when seeking a second opinion."
The Mayo Clinic Cancer Care Network is in many ways an extension of a currently existing network, Clinic Care Network.
According to Dr. David Hayes, medical director of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, "The purpose of the network, from our perspective, is to form even stronger relationships with thriving, independent local health care systems. We really think the answer to health care improvement ... is to start to integrate knowledge and expertise across institutions whenever we can do that."
Ultimately the network allows the Mayo Clinic to make the expertise of its staff available to partner health systems and to put the Clinic in the tops of peoples' minds when it comes to patients who need complex care.
Source: MCT Information Services
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