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Title
Mendel accelerates clinical trial matching with Databricks
…o improve patient outcomes 3x faster Model training to provide patient insights Mendel, an AI leader in healthcare and life sciences, tackles the challenges of fragmented clinical data with their HyperCube platform, which enables precision in tasks like clinical trial matching. However, the complexity of building disease-specific ontologies and managing da…
Description
Healthcare AI company Mendel used Databricks to pretrain and fine-tune custom large language models like Llama 3.1 on around 200 billion proprietary tokens for its HyperCube clinical data platform, reducing model training time from three months to one month while maintaining HIPAA compliance.
…r Mendel’s AI initiatives, particularly their HyperCube product, which required advanced tools for pretraining custom large language models (LLMs) like Llama 3.1. The Databricks engineering team helped Mendel fine-tune these models with exce…
…rted with a partially trained model, continuing its training on public datasets before integrating their proprietary data — around 200 billion raw tokens — into the process. With help from Databricks, Mendel was able to unify their data and ETL pipelin…
…Mendel CUSTOMER STORY Accelerating clinical trials to improve patient outcomes 3x faster Model training to provide patient insights Mendel, an AI leader in healthcare and life sciences, tackles the challenges of…
…ercome these hurdles, Mendel leveraged Databricks to accelerate model training, reducing the timeline from three months to just one, while ensuring HIPAA compliance and enhancing the accuracy of their AI solutions. Overcoming the complexities of ontology building Co-founded by a physician and…
Company
Mendel
…ccuracy of their AI solutions. Overcoming the complexities of ontology building Co-founded by a physician and a computer scientist in 2017, Mendel is at the forefront of using data and AI to revolutionize the Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) sector by simplifying the search and analysis of clinical data. By accelerating clinical data workflows, they enable healthcare providers and r…
Industry
Healthcare
…that our partnership is headed in the right direction.” Share this post Details Industry : Healthcare and Life Sciences Use Case : Artificial Intelligence , Data Science Cloud : AWS Product : Agent B…
Problem
Fragmented clinical data across systems like EMRs and different health networks made it difficult for Mendel's HyperCube users to perform real-time queries or extract actionable insights, and building the disease-specific ontologies needed for semantic querying was time-consuming and resource-intensive.
…ems, including electronic medical records (EMRs) and different health networks. This data was often siloed, making it difficult for users to perform real-time queries or extract actionable insights within Mendel’s HyperCube product. For example, when clinical researchers needed to find specific patient cohorts…
…ovided to their partners in diagnostics and biopharma. Adding to the challenge, Mendel faced the daunting task of building disease-specific ontologies, essential for enabling semantic querying within clinical data. Developing these ontologies required extensive resources, including teams of da…
Solution
Mendel used Databricks to pretrain and fine-tune custom large language models like Llama 3.1, starting from a partially trained model, continuing training on public datasets, and then integrating around 200 billion proprietary tokens. Databricks also enabled Mendel to unify its data and ETL pipelines and run federated queries across multiple data sources.
…ly boosting their ability to deliver precise AI solutions in clinical settings. Mendel started with a partially trained model, continuing its training on public datasets before integrating their proprietary data — around 200 billion raw tokens — into the process. With help from Databricks, Mendel was able to unify their data and ETL pipeline…
…ting their proprietary data — around 200 billion raw tokens — into the process. With help from Databricks, Mendel was able to unify their data and ETL pipelines, which further optimized the performance of their AI solutions. The integration of data federation capabilities through the Databricks Data + A…
Business value
Databricks helped Mendel accelerate model training, reducing the timeline from three months to just one, while ensuring HIPAA compliance and enhancing the accuracy of their AI solutions.
…naging data across multiple systems slowed progress. To overcome these hurdles, Mendel leveraged Databricks to accelerate model training, reducing the timeline from three months to just one, while ensuring HIPAA compliance and enhancing the accuracy of their AI solutions. Overcoming the complexities of ontology building Co-founded by a physician and…
AI capabilities
Large Language Models, Generative AI, AI Model Development & MLOps
…flows and supporting the HLS industry. Enhancing model accuracy with Databricks To accelerate their generative AI (GenAI) research and better serve their customers, Mendel turned to Databricks, attracted by their strong reputation and the hands-on support provided by the…
Technology
Llama 3.1, Agent Bricks, Unity Catalog
…r Mendel’s AI initiatives, particularly their HyperCube product, which required advanced tools for pretraining custom large language models (LLMs) like Llama 3.1. The Databricks engineering team helped Mendel fine-tune these models with exce…
…raining on the right dataset." Investing in advanced AI projects Looking ahead, Mendel plans to leverage Lakehouse Federation capabilities within Unity Catalog . This will enable Mendel to manage and audit data access seamlessly across multi…
Deployment model
cloud
…Healthcare and Life Sciences Use Case : Artificial Intelligence , Data Science Cloud : AWS Product : Agent Bricks Ready to get started? Try Databricks for free Learn more…
Deployment options
cloud
…Healthcare and Life Sciences Use Case : Artificial Intelligence , Data Science Cloud : AWS Product : Agent Bricks Ready to get started? Try Databricks for free Learn more…
Headline outcome
…Mendel CUSTOMER STORY Accelerating clinical trials to improve patient outcomes 3x faster Model training to provide patient insights Mendel, an AI leader in healthcare and life sciences, tackles the challenges of…
…ercome these hurdles, Mendel leveraged Databricks to accelerate model training, reducing the timeline from three months to just one, while ensuring HIPAA compliance and enhancing the accuracy of their AI solutions. Overcoming the complexities of ontology building Co-founded by a physician and…
Use case type
Decision support
…search and analysis of clinical data. By accelerating clinical data workflows, they enable healthcare providers and researchers to quickly and accurately identify patient cohorts, match candidates for clinical trials and support precision medicine initiatives. By working closely with diagnostic companies that partner with biopharmaceutic…
