BOSTON, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Endovascular Forum (EVF), an IC Sciences company, and its partner the Society for Vascular Medicine announced a collaboration to accelerate the growth and potency of a Web-based collective intelligence instrument for advanced clinical skills development in endovascular medicine. The program serves the partners' shared commitment to developing a new generation of tools for physicians to learn from peer experiences, and in so doing improve their treatment decisions and practices. "We are excited to be collaborating with the Society for Vascular Medicine," said Robert Reid, president of The Endovascular Forum. "This partnership reinforces a common vision that the Internet's 'clinical network' effects can improve endovascular care. Having thousands of physicians globally exchanging ideas, experiences, and treatment techniques translates to accelerated circulation of expertise and, very simply, better treatments for sick people."
Collective intelligence instruments are a class of medical informatics instruments that apply scientific design principles to effectively engage groups of clinicians or patients in exchanging information, observations, and viewpoints to advance the community's collective intelligence. Techniques employed for high-impact collective intelligence instruments include narrative tools, user-generated tagging, and meta-data collection.
The Endovascular Forum's online, global clinician network provides an experientially diverse community ideal for collective intelligence engagement around vascular medicine. Vascular diseases account for most of the morbidity and mortality in the United States. Dr. Michael Bacharach, MD, MPH, President of the Society for Vascular Medicine, explained the clinical value of this platform: "The diversity and complexity of vascular diseases requires new tools that enable the rapid exchange and dissemination of information, knowledge, and experiences among peers from the multiple specialties involved in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular disease. We believe that EVF is a powerful platform that is rapidly becoming a sustainable collective intelligence instrument, accessible to physicians from all around the world."
The collective intelligence instrument class has theoretical foundations residing in complexity science models that describe learning as an adaptive iteration process and knowledge as an emergent pattern arising from an integration of diverse inputs. Dr. Eleanor Herriman, Co-Director of the Division of Medical Information Sciences, Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer of IC Sciences, said, "The Internet is powering a new era of medical science and professional development in which the massive integration (also sometimes termed "mining") of experiences and observations forms a complementary, accelerated path to knowledge generation and dissemination." Complexity science inspires and informs this collective intelligence approach, and offers a novel basis for understanding natural systems that has been called the most important scientific advance of the century.
About the EVF
Founded in 1996, the Endovascular Forum is the world's longest standing medical forum dedicated to endovascular specialists. The EVF is an international case study and discussion forum developed and hosted by IC Sciences Corporation (http://www.ICSciences.com). The EVF NGHI (next generation health Internet) community comes together to share clinical observations, findings, and cases that all serve to accelerate the awareness and adoption of the most innovative and sometimes controversial procedures among physicians in the minimally invasive medical community. To learn more about the Endovascular Forum, visit http://www.Endovascular.org or call 866-804-6296.
About SVM
The Society for Vascular Medicine is a professional organization that was founded in 1989 to foster a broad mission. The goals of the Society are to improve the integration of vascular biological advances into medical practice, and to maintain high standards of clinical vascular medicine.
The Society is distinguished by its emphasis on clinical approaches to vascular disorders. Optimal vascular care is best accomplished by the collegial interaction of a community of vascular professionals, including individuals with expertise in vascular medicine, vascular surgery, interventional radiology, vascular nursing, vascular technology, and other disciplines.
The Society recognizes the importance of individuals with diverse backgrounds in achieving ideal standards of research and clinical practice. The Society encourages these individuals to join the Society and to help accomplish its clinical and scientific mission. To learn more about SVM and its mission, visit http://www.vascularmed.org or call 874-480-2961.
About IC Sciences Corporation
IC Sciences Corporation is a closely held, private organization pioneering in the medical information sciences and informed clinical technology markets. The company's core business involves designing, developing, delivering and advancing a series of informatics instrument classes, including care delivery, cognitive profiling, collective intelligence, therapeutic support, and performance evaluation. For more information, visit http://www.ICSciences.com
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