Health Pathways, Inc. was founded
to improve the quality of healthcare information
delivery and facilitate efficient clinical
research processes and product development.
Using capabilities from acquired assets and
partnerships, the overall mission is four part:
- To improve the quality of health care
delivery through the coordination of centralized
health care information;
- To facilitate the early introduction
of more efficient healthcare
processes;
- To increase clinical research access
to qualified clinical research investigators
and eligible patients.
- To enable government agencies
to achieve technology modernization
and
global harmonization for regulatory submission
and review.
The
problem: slow, inefficient, and expensive
research
While the United States spends the most on healthcare per capita
of any country (over one trillion dollars annually), it ranks poorly
in efficiency:
Inefficient and Expensive Clinical Research:
Clinical investigator identification, criteria
validation, and patient enrollment are
all hampered by inefficient processes that
on average extend the necessary time to complete a Phase Three
study by ninety to one hundred and twenty days -- at an average
of $1 million per day. The annual direct clinical research inefficiency
estimates range from $5 to $7 billion.
Patient Information
in Disparate Silos:
Inefficient links between patients, providers, payers, and employers
delay health care delivery and payment, increase staff requirements,
decrease quality of care, and create consumer dissatisfaction.
Currently, there are at least 400 disparate formats used to submit
and process health care claims, costing the U.S. $370 billion annually.
Reports indicate that solutions to these IT system issues would
double the potential clinical investigator pool.
Unsecured Healthcare
Information:
There are currently no clear processes to protect the privacy of
patients' medical records. Repeated studies indicate the need for
a central, independent patient information network where patients
could provide the necessary authorization for care provision across
clinical researchers. Two government initiatives are forcing health
care to provide a viable answer to this problem: (1) the Health
Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996
(Public Law 104-191) and (2) the Patient's Bill of Rights (Bipartisan
Protection Act, S. 1052.)
The solution:
Health Pathways' End-to-End technology
Health Pathways, Inc. has combined the components, production systems
and technical assets of the following Healthcare IT companies to
address the challenges presented:
- Biosciences Corporation (founded 1998)
-- a clinical research information matching
network;
- NetHealth Trust, Inc. -- the Information
Technology (IT) services division of Health
Pathways, Inc.;
- MedSolutions, Inc. (1997) -- a medical
imaging network company;
- Audit Services (2003) -- a division
of Health Pathways focused on the integrity
of the pharmaceutical supply chain.
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