The guiding vision of our activities is ‘Integrating Knowledge Across the Life Science Product Life Cycle’ with the goal of achieving improved outcomes in healthcare product development & delivery, reducing costs and improving productivity and quality through cross-disciplinary and cross-organisational use of knowledge-based approaches and strategies and supporting integrated and semantic-based informatics systems.

We identify current best knowledge-based strategies, practices and supporting solutions in the life science & healthcare industry that enable innovation, effectiveness and success in the competitive market. We address issues that include:

• How can existing knowledge and intellectual property be more effectively deployed into new business situations?
• How should we manage our data and knowledge around the product life cycle to maximise its value in the market place?
• What new knowledge management approaches offer greater productivity for the individual worker? For the team? For collaborators and partners? For communities of interest and practice?
• How should we classify our knowledge better semantically so that we may retrieve more of what we know, is known or to determine what is not known?
• What new approaches for managing knowledge are being created by the increasingly electronic nature of information capture, management and collaboration? What are the legal and regulatory risks and how do we manage them?
• How do the new standards and initiatives allowing the improved exchange and combination of data between different systems and domains create opportunities for improved access to knowledge?
• How can improved knowledge management help to reduce the high cost of clinical trials and patient recruitment?
• How do we increase the effectiveness of knowledge-supported healthcare delivery?

Douglas Connect also runs InnovationWell, a Community of Practice dedicated to these topics. Please contact us for an initial conversation and introduction on how some of these questions could be answered for your organisation and how we could assist you in getting the answers.