About Archimedes: Archimedes Inc. is a healthcare modeling company located in San Francisco. Founded by David Eddy, MD, PhD, pioneer in evidence-based decision making, its proprietary technology - the Archimedes Model - is a clinically realistic, mathematical model of human physiology, diseases, interventions and healthcare systems. The Model is continually validated by comparing the results of simulated trials to the results of real multi-national clinical trials and cohort studies.
Through innovations such as Archimedes IndiGO (Individualized Guidelines and Outcomes), Archimedes helps individuals understand the implications of their decisions. IndiGO is a physician and patient decision support tool designed for use in medical groups, ACOs, and Patient-Centered Medical Homes. IndiGO uses information about an individual's risk of adverse events, such as heart attacks, stroke, and onset of diabetes, to inform and motivate the patient to take action to reduce their risk. IndiGO results, displayed in an EHR or disease registry, include the patient's risk of adverse event and the medications and/or lifestyle interventions that have the greatest impact on reducing their risk. IndiGO improves the physician-patient collaboration, leading to improvements in adherence, better outcomes, and lower costs.
"To drive major improvements, performance-based payments must exceed 10% of total provider income. Incentives of this magnitude can only be mobilized if they originate in payer savings.”
Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH,
Mercer Health
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Other IHA partnerships:
University of California Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT) BCHT conducts research into existing and improved criteria for coverage, consumer cost-sharing, and other dimensions of management for biomedical innovations, and provides academic programs for UC Berkeley graduate students and professional development for health care organizations.
Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) , a national coalition of regionally-based, multi-stakeholder health improvement collaboratives that are working to improve the quality and value of health care delivery.
California Center for Public Health Advocacy, a nonpartisan nonprofit organizations that raises awareness about critical public health issues and mobilizes communities to promote the establishment of effective state and local health policies.
