Mayo Clinic Health Solutions and Microsoft Corp.’s Health Solutions Group today announced that they have entered into a strategic agreement to collaboratively develop tools that will empower people to manage their health and become engaged partners with their providers in a new model of healthcare.

Commonly used in health care, workplace and criminal settings, drug testing has become widespread during the past decade. Urine drug screens have been the most common method for analysis because of ease of sampling.

Collaborators from Mayo Clinic and IBM have exploited parallel computer architecture and memory bandwidth to dramatically speed up the processing of 3-D medical images