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For more than 25 years, CTIS has been providing good health informatics solutions to the health industry across the areas of health communication, health research, healthcare, public health, and health education. Our services include systems integration, program management, custom solutions, improved clinical workflow, thought leadership, and cloud hosting. Our products include mobile applications, dashboards and portals, and applications that improve clinical research for patients, physicians, providers, researchers, and payors. CTIS’ award-winning proven good health informatics solutions are built on a solid foundation of business process streamlining, total quality management, best practices, standards, and regulatory compliance.
The journey of CTIS to date has been in five phases. We have utilized the power of integrated information technology, process streamlining, and total quality management for health communication and are expanding to health research, public health, healthcare, individualized care, and disease management.
CTIS envisions being a partner in creating a new health paradigm for the future—one that breaks the cycle of unsustainable and rising costs, primarily in the areas of chronic disease, health disparity, and elder care. Costs for the intersection of these cohorts are already at least 65% of total healthcare costs, and elder care is a growing area of cost and resource concern as baby boomers continue to age. CTIS envisions harnessing the power of information and technology to bring unparalleled health to patients and to shift the health industry away from acute care intervention towards prevention and health education. CTIS’ visionary leadership is at the forefront of national discussions that are defining the next generation of biomedical, clinical research, translational research, personalized medicine, and comparative effectiveness research programs that will not only provide better patient care, but also meet the cost management needs of the health industry.
CTIS realized early on it could make the most impact by focusing on disease management and the prevention of future disease. As Mary Lasker famously remarked, "If you think research is expensive, try disease." CTIS’ approach aligns with good public health strategies by focusing more on preventive upstream interventions that target the determinants of health as opposed to downstream interventions that address the adverse conditions with the onset of disease.
CTIS made its entry into the health industry with a focus on health communication, demonstrating core competencies in the areas of education, supporting collaborations programs, workshops, and publications. Significant projects during the first phase of CTIS' history included a public health project for the Biomedical Computing Support for the Environmental Epidemiology Branch of the National Cancer Institute (NCI); an information management and automatic data processing project for Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Projects at NCI; and an environment, safety, and health program at Department of Energy.
Building on the foundation of health communication, CTIS next proved its model in one of the most challenging environments – clinical research – by balancing the needs of patient safety, good clinical practice, process streamlining, total quality management, a stringent regulatory environment, and the pressing need to bring drugs safely to market more quickly.
CTIS engaged with NCI to build IT solutions for the Clinical Trials Research and Management (CTRM) process. The Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) is built on best practices, standards-based information, increased efficiency, and productivity of all phases of the clinical trials automation process for phase I, II, III, FDA approval, phase IV, and post-market trials.
CTIS solutions are applied over 400 investigational new drugs and a database of over 1 million patients, 15,000 researchers, and 5,000 sites demonstrating success with more than 250% return on investment. Efficiency and productivity gains were impressive – for example, the number of days for a protocol to reach the trial activation was reduced from over two years to 240 days. CTEP’s suite of applications was ranked the #1 IT investment within the NIH and the #3 IT investment within the Department of Health and Human Services.
With the CTIS model proven over the full course of time it takes for research studies to move through all four phases of clinical trials, CTIS was ready to expand its offerings. During this time, CTIS was also one of the first companies to begin biological data processing with a contract for DTP, NCI; created a focus on health and safety for the Department of Energy; and began its work in HIV research with an AIDS database system. CTIS also built electronic data capture systems in support of clinical trials for pharma companies such as Novartis, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Glaxo Smith Kline, and Serono.
CTIS continued its journey in support of health communication and health research with data warehousing projects at NIH that focus on cancer, HIV/AIDS, and heart diseases and conditions. CTIS next began to make greater impact in the area of public health, creating solutions for awareness, outreach, registries, surveillance, prevention, control, and epidemiology. CTIS focused on health disparity in both the U.S. and internationally. Notable projects include the building of a digital safety net clinic connectivity between Primary Care Coalition, MobileMed, and Community Ministries of Rockville in Montgomery County, Maryland; a digital worldwide portal and clinical trial systems for the International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research; and support for a palliative care center in Nepal, a cancer center in Jordan, and both cardiovascular and cancer centers in India. During this phase of its history, CTIS built one of the first electronic medical records.
During this period, as part of a strong commitment to corporate social responsibility, CTIS began to focus on nonprofit development projects.
CTIS continued its journey in support of health communication, health research, and public health with data warehousing projects; CTIS transformed the practice of healthcare focusing on translational research, comparative effectiveness research, personalized medicine, health disparities, elder care, and chronic disease management by utilizing good health informatics.
CTIS has participated in the funding of more than $400 million in projects for translational research/personalized medicine and over $300 million in projects for public health across five institutes. CTIS actively participates in personalized medicine coalitions and Institute of Medicine roundtables and has been instrumental in promoting advances in nanotechnology.
In the area of health disparity, CTIS engaged in initiatives with ProstateNet, Primary Care Coalition, MobileMed, Community Ministries of Rockville, and Regional Minority Prevention Network - George Washington Cancer Institute to achieve greater health equity. In recognition of CTIS’ leadership in this area, CTIS CEO Mr. Raj Shah was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, to serve on the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the NIH from 2010-2014. Mr. Shah was invited to the 2010 G20 Health Summit and published a paper on Global Health and Information and Communication Technology.
Building on more than 25 years of experience in health communication, health research, public health, and healthcare, CTIS is now focused on disease management in helping patients today by improving collaboration and communication among patients, healthcare professionals, health systems, research organizations, and payors and also by supporting the requirements of making good and timely information available across the full spectrum of points of care. Data between these stakeholders are currently in different silos; CTIS’ good health informatics solutions integrates this data and connects these information silos to create a more cohesive system that provides to all stakeholders meaningful, needed information for the best in care management.
CTIS is now focused on the integration of the health industry with bioscience by utilizing mobile front-end technology that is easily navigated by the caregiver and understandable to the patient. CTIS is committed to integrating innovations at the forefront of medicine into medical practice, bringing treatment advances to patients as quickly as possible and enabling patients to participate in these groundbreaking new advancements. CTIS has collaborative relationships with the innovative arms of the Department of Health and Human Services, Institute of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Defense, and health systems such as Inova to innovate on behalf of today’s patient and their needs.
Today, CTIS offers applied solutions throughout the healthcare industry for government organizations, health systems, academic medical institutes, physicians, payors, and patients. CTIS is at the forefront of building systems that provide the best of patient care and support innovative disease management programs across the spectrum of chronic diseases, health disparity, and individualized care. CTIS will participate with health systems to build learning healthcare systems to create maximum patient-specific healthcare intelligence at the point of care, utilizing novel analytical tools and informatics resources to provide comprehensive biological, clinical, social/behavioral, cultural, and environmental patient-specific data that is appropriately analyzed and integrated with accumulated historical and relevant disease-specific population outcomes data.
CTEP: CTIS developed an enterprise solution for National Cancer Institute's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program.