IHCS
Integrated Health
Care Solutions
Through integration to innovation
Against
the backdrop of the first disease management projects conducted
between 1996 and 1998 - in particular in the field of viral diseases
(HIV and hepatitis C) - innovative programmes for different clinical
pictures and fields have been developed to face up to the challenges
to modern medicine today and in the future. The incorporation
of the new technological possibilities offered by genome research
can lead in the medium term to treatement that is customised
to the individual needs of each patients. Integrated solutions
such as this will not only benifit the patient, they will also
simplify the situation for the various healthcare funders.
In order
to develop timely diagnostic and therapeutic solutions of this
nature, the possibilities of future IHCS (Integrated Health
Care Solutions) programmes are evaluated while research is still
going on during the preclinical phase of new therapeutics.
The foundations
for the realisation of this objective rest on three pillars
:
