Vision
By applying an integrated, multidisciplinary scientific strategy, we envision directing the dynamic, intelligent force behind Internet and informatics systems into shaping healthcare delivery to achieve informed clinical care. Informed clinical care describes a system in which clinicians, patients and consumers utilize specialized informatics applications, or medical informatics instruments, to capture, exchange, analyze and disseminate clinical information so that an adaptive, intelligent and dynamic structure emerges, and so that care is personalized, enlightened and informed by experience, evidence, prediction and preference.
Informed clinical care is novel in its technologic and scientific orientation, in which emphasis is placed on leveraging informatics applications to pair and engage clinicians and patients throughout the continuum of care, and to create a dynamic that advances a "ground level" clinical knowledge engine. This strategy is further informed through observations and analyses regarding what's not worked as hoped for in e-healthcare delivery and why.
Despite a strong consensus for advancing healthcare delivery using electronic technologies, there is still much debate and uncertainty regarding the optimal form and function for these clinical systems. Early clinical e-health forays ("e-health 1.0") have experienced clinician resistance and implementation problems. Some of this can be attributed to the significant challenges associated with changing roles and workflows, but others contend that early systems have not been designed to improve how clinicians actually deliver care in terms of patient engagement. Another group of observers has decried clinical technologies that rigidly, electronically impose clinical algorithms in a top-down manner, as being ill suited to the complex and fuzzy domain of medical practice.
The IC Sciences' vision and business strategy pursue an entirely different course in understanding and then developing innovative e-health systems for achieving informed clinical care. By applying a variety of traditional, cognitive and complexity sciences, we devise techniques for engaging patients as responsible partners and cognitively supporting clinicians using medical informatics instruments deployed on Internet and related technologic platforms. These instruments transform clinician-patient interactions into an intelligent information exchange system, in which participants are informed by relevant clinical evidence and learn from information feedback on patient results and clinical outcomes.
Capabilities
The IC Sciences organization brings a wide breadth of capabilities and services to our markets. Our expertise base is particularly focused in the areas of specialty medicine; e-health; practice strategy, management and operations; patient engagement; medical device and pharmaceutical industries; clinical informatics; intelligent software in medicine; the Internet (Web 2.0 and 3.0) in medicine; complexity and cognitive sciences; healthcare venture and private equity financing; and healthcare policy and market dynamics.
The internal functional capabilities that we apply to the design and development of medical informatics instruments and informed clinical care services include medical writing and editorial services, graphic and creative design, engineering and software development, and both field-based and telephonic client implementation and support services. We apply these capabilities in serving three major markets - professional medical providers, consumers through payers and employers, and pharmaceutical and device companies.
Our professional advisory services tap into the years of direct client experiences and extracted best practices we've generated in working with medical practice groups, academic and private institutions, hospitals, professional medical societies, and medical device and pharmaceutical firms. These services span the entire "value-chain" - from strategy to engineering to marketing. Professional service functions include strategy and assessment for providers; implementation and optimization of e-health technologies for providers; custom creative design and engineering of e-health applications; custom media and content development; custom web portal, intranet and content development; and e-health, clinical informatics and Web 2.0 consulting and platform development for a variety of healthcare markets.
By applying an integrated, multidisciplinary scientific strategy, we envision directing the dynamic, intelligent force behind Internet and informatics systems into shaping healthcare delivery to achieve informed clinical care. Informed clinical care describes a system in which clinicians, patients and consumers utilize specialized informatics applications, or medical informatics instruments, to capture, exchange, analyze and disseminate clinical information so that an adaptive, intelligent and dynamic structure emerges, and so that care is personalized, enlightened and informed by experience, evidence, prediction and preference.
Informed clinical care is novel in its technologic and scientific orientation, in which emphasis is placed on leveraging informatics applications to pair and engage clinicians and patients throughout the continuum of care, and to create a dynamic that advances a "ground level" clinical knowledge engine. This strategy is further informed through observations and analyses regarding what's not worked as hoped for in e-healthcare delivery and why.
Despite a strong consensus for advancing healthcare delivery using electronic technologies, there is still much debate and uncertainty regarding the optimal form and function for these clinical systems. Early clinical e-health forays ("e-health 1.0") have experienced clinician resistance and implementation problems. Some of this can be attributed to the significant challenges associated with changing roles and workflows, but others contend that early systems have not been designed to improve how clinicians actually deliver care in terms of patient engagement. Another group of observers has decried clinical technologies that rigidly, electronically impose clinical algorithms in a top-down manner, as being ill suited to the complex and fuzzy domain of medical practice.
The IC Sciences' vision and business strategy pursue an entirely different course in understanding and then developing innovative e-health systems for achieving informed clinical care. By applying a variety of traditional, cognitive and complexity sciences, we devise techniques for engaging patients as responsible partners and cognitively supporting clinicians using medical informatics instruments deployed on Internet and related technologic platforms. These instruments transform clinician-patient interactions into an intelligent information exchange system, in which participants are informed by relevant clinical evidence and learn from information feedback on patient results and clinical outcomes.
Capabilities
The IC Sciences organization brings a wide breadth of capabilities and services to our markets. Our expertise base is particularly focused in the areas of specialty medicine; e-health; practice strategy, management and operations; patient engagement; medical device and pharmaceutical industries; clinical informatics; intelligent software in medicine; the Internet (Web 2.0 and 3.0) in medicine; complexity and cognitive sciences; healthcare venture and private equity financing; and healthcare policy and market dynamics.
The internal functional capabilities that we apply to the design and development of medical informatics instruments and informed clinical care services include medical writing and editorial services, graphic and creative design, engineering and software development, and both field-based and telephonic client implementation and support services. We apply these capabilities in serving three major markets - professional medical providers, consumers through payers and employers, and pharmaceutical and device companies.
Our professional advisory services tap into the years of direct client experiences and extracted best practices we've generated in working with medical practice groups, academic and private institutions, hospitals, professional medical societies, and medical device and pharmaceutical firms. These services span the entire "value-chain" - from strategy to engineering to marketing. Professional service functions include strategy and assessment for providers; implementation and optimization of e-health technologies for providers; custom creative design and engineering of e-health applications; custom media and content development; custom web portal, intranet and content development; and e-health, clinical informatics and Web 2.0 consulting and platform development for a variety of healthcare markets.
