UnityPoint Health First to Join Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights

Health systems continue to find ways to collaborate on AI innovations. For instance, Iowa-based UnityPoint Health has become the first healthcare organization to join a new program called Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights.

Headquartered in West Des Moines, UnityPoint owns or operates more than 400 clinics, 18 regional and 17 community network hospitals, community mental health centers, urgent care/express care locations and home care facilities.

Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights involves data-driven insights, enabled by AI, shared alongside Mayo Clinic’s best practices, guidance and support.

In addition to these solutions developed or qualified by Mayo Clinic Platform, UnityPoint Health team members also will receive a variety of clinical and administrative resources such as point-of-care decision-support tools, patient and provider education, and digital transformation guidance.

“We are pleased to have UnityPoint Health join us as the first organization in Mayo Clinic Platform_Insights, a program that delivers Mayo Clinic’s rich clinical and operational expertise to other healthcare organizations so they can benefit from the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence,” said John Halamka, M.D., M.S., the Dwight and Dian Diercks President of Mayo Clinic Platform, in a statement. “With access to proven clinical and administrative solutions, providers will have more time to focus on what matters most: their patients.”

Healthcare Innovation has reported on how other health system consortia are approaching AI. For instance, Chicago-based AVIA, which works with health systems on digital transformation, recently launched Nexus Agentic AI, a platform designed to help health systems responsibly adopt agentic AI.

Citing a Gartner prediction that more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027 due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls, AVIA said it is hoping to address these challenges by bringing together 10 health systems in its first cohort, with a second cohort set to launch later this fall. 

The first 10 include Bon Secours Mercy Health, Children’s Wisconsin, Legacy Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, MedStar Health, and Moffitt Cancer Center.

In 2023, AVIA launched a similar collaborative around generative AI that involves 20 health systems, key industry associations, and government leaders—including Providence, Memorial Hermann Health System, MedStar Health, Geisinger, the American Hospital Association, and others—to produce a playbook shared with participating organizations.

Aegis Ventures, a New York-based venture studio that partners with entrepreneurs and health systems to launch and scale health tech startups, also has a strong AI focus. 

The Aegis Digital Consortium recently grew to 14 health systems with the addition of Yale New Haven Health System, Keck Medicine of USC, and Hartford HealthCare.

Murray Brozinsky, a partner at Aegis who oversees new company creation, told Healthcare Innovation in September 2025 that AI is “certainly the No. 1 thing on everyone's mind. How do you apply generative AI  or agentic AI to workforce issues? We're absolutely seeing that as being the No. 1 priority — how to implement to get efficiency and effectiveness. So far, the focus has been more on efficiency. How do I do what I'm doing now but do it better? We feel there's a lot of opportunity there, but we actually think there are problems that you couldn't solve previously that now you can revisit and use AI to solve.”