KQI has a vision to change the process and scope of healthcare delivery around the globe. The proper use and deployment of medical knowledge is critical to achieving this goal. In this digital age, quality content is king (Bill Gates, 1996). With the exponential growth in new medical technologies and cellular understanding, we have exceeded the range of human processing and will need the help of an assistant to bridge this gap and maximize our human potential.

Just like the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and CT (computed tomography) have changed the visibility of the human eye to see disease, so to medical knowledge processing will expand the human potential for problem solving and provide the support needed to maximize human diagnostic and treatment services.

KQI’s new tools go beyond the professional and extend to the consumer where personal care and treatment must begin. The more we can empower the patient to deal with their own conditions the less the professional load will be.

The key to doing any of these undertakings is the ability to store and retain current peer-reviewed medical knowledge in an efficient manner. This has been accomplished with the technical advancements in computer science. The hard part of this process is getting the raw medical knowledge together and having it authored into a suitable structure for consumer delivery. This will take the work of dozens of skilled medical specialists reading and processing the entire knowledge base of medicine every day and making their up-to-date information known through a global delivery system.

This business model is already a proven industry standard in the pharmaceutical knowledge arena. Every digital medical record system today uses some form of pharmaceutical database to drive their drug handling and prescription writing process. Every drug store uses these same digital databases to check for potential drug-drug interactions and protect their patients from unwanted drug reactions.

All the pharmaceutical database companies use dozens of PharmDs to read and digest the world’s knowledge on drugs and then compress this into a database for general distribution. KQI has the same model yet we use physicians to read the medical literature and build our databases.

This digital editing is more complex than writing a book or article and requires medical data be specially arranged for interactive voice technology and rapid delivery. All this parsed knowledge must be structured to feed the EMRs of the world and also respond to individual problem solving.

KQI has written a sophisticated medical editing system to oversee this process and guarantee a quality product at the end. This digital editor can handle hundreds of medical authors and make changes to the global knowledge base at the speed-of-light. Since this database is driving EMRs and local Internet delivery tools, it becomes the new standard of care when it is published. This will change the whole focus of continuing medical education and will reward those who use these resources with current patient care information at the point of delivery- the exam room or hospital.

This dramatic compression of medical knowledge distribution is a revolutionary idea. We can now compact the educational cycle down to hours and not years. Our digital knowledge delivery system will provide current patient care data for every patient and can assist in their diagnosis and treatment.

If we are investing billions of dollars in EMRs, then let’s make them intelligent and proactive for the patient. Let’s remove the clerical burdens now being placed upon physicians and allow the computer system to do the clerical processing.

Our current EMR systems are now using our most valuable resource, the physician, to do the entire document processing work. This is a terrible waste of energy and talent, and has seriously compromised the patient and the future of medicine.

KQI believes there is a better way to solve this problem and it involves building smarter EMRs and digital assistants who are designed to handle tedious jobs. For a conceptual discussion of our companies accomplishments, please (click here).

THE KQI DIFFERENCE

The KQI relational databases are always changing and being updated so that new facts (we call them factoids) are always emerging. These peer-reviewed and referenced professional materials are the basis of all our files and represent the world’s best sources on medical problems and their solution. Nothing in our database is based on personal opinion but every fact must pass the test of coming from multiple peer-reviewed sources. In addition, all our data must pass the legal test of validation against the “gold-standards” of current medical knowledge so they are admissible in a court of law.

Our cloud-based editor also does all the spell checking and handles syntax and formatting issues. Each author has a tight structure for their contributions so that the final product all fits together and operates as a unified intelligent reference source. We also have a separate quality control process that reviews all new materials before they are released and assures that these new factoids pass our high standards for quality content.

Once the new content is ready to release, we have an automated merge program that updates all our files on a global basis within 40 seconds. Our update program can run as often as needed so there is always a fast way to release critical information when it is required. When we had an Ebola scare, our database was being updated hourly.