Our mission is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of clinical care, enrich the healthcare experience, and advance the wellbeing of patients and their families through the use of the Internet and related technologies. This is accomplished through multidisciplinary scientific study and integrative technologic development that will establish intelligent informatics systems, pair healthcare participants and digital medicine symbiotically, attain informed and responsible patient engagement, appropriate medical resources effectively, and pioneer real-time evidence generation productively, all serving to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
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April 09, 2008
IC Sciences Launches ICS Alliance to Advance Development and Adoption of Informatics Instruments for Next Generation Healthcare
Boston, MA - (April 09, 2008) IC Sciences Corporation announced today the establishment of a new corporate division, the Division of Medical Information Sciences (DMIS), dedicated to scientific and technical innovations in the design and development of the burgeoning field of "digital informatics instruments." In addition to reflecting a corporate commitment to a new generation of informatics-grounded healthcare delivery, the Division's mandate also involves establishing the parameters, methods, and disciplines needed to ensure the safety and effectiveness of these instruments.
The Division's Executive Director, L. Eleanor J. Herriman, MD, MBA, who also serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer of IC Sciences Corp, remarked, "Having canvassed the scientific literature, attended the leading healthcare informatics conferences, and heard from all market and policy sectors in healthcare, we have concluded that medical practice and the healthcare marketplace are in the midst of an unprecedented transformation. This shift is being sparked by the Internet and associated advances in medical informatics. The leadership of IC Sciences and its advisors are convinced that the success of care delivery heavily depends on the clinical potency and quality of the informatics tools available to clinicians, patients, and consumers."
DMIS envisions collaborations with a range of scientific, business, and clinical leaders to devise design principles, tools, meta-data frameworks, and assessment methodologies to answer the question "How can informatics systems most effectively advance care delivery?" The healthcare information technologies involved in next generation healthcare are viewed through the framework of a range of informatics instrument classes, such as care delivery instruments, cognitive profiling instruments, collective intelligence instruments, therapeutic support instruments, and evaluation instruments.
The foundation for these medical instrument classes is constructed from IC Sciences' research into a variety of multi-disciplinary sciences. The findings are distilled into a set of DMIS principles that articulate critical elements of instrument functionality:
- Distributed evidence - to support the next epoch in healthcare evidence, instruments should enable real world, bottom-up capture and synthesis of patient-, clinician-, and computer-generated data.
- Cognitive potency - instruments should embody cognitive science's knowledge regarding how information assembly, packaging, and delivery in interactions with patients and clinicians impacts healthcare decisions and behavior.
- Complexity informatics - given that healthcare represents a highly uncertain, dynamic, and interconnected system, instrument designs should assimilate complex adaptive systems approaches.
- Internet-assisted intelligence - healthcare's evidence base and complexity have exceeded the capacities of unaided human intelligence; Internet instruments' computing power can play a vital role providing intelligence advisory services to patients and clinicians.
About IC Sciences Corporation
IC Sciences Corporation is a closely held, private organization pioneering in the medical information sciences and informed clinical technology markets. IC Sciences Corporation, through its operating companies, is creating the world's most comprehensive and broadly based developer of intelligent informatics systems and digital informatics instruments for the professional, consumer, and therapeutics medical markets. Our core business is about employing the Internet and related technology platforms to support the delivery of informed clinical systems that optimally impact patient care through the science and the art of contextually differentiated informing. For more information, please visit: www.ICSciences.com.
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