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About Archimedes Inc.
Archimedes Inc. is a healthcare modeling company located in San Francisco. The company was founded by Len Schlessinger, PhD, and David Eddy, MD, PhD, a pioneer in evidence-based decision making. The company employs scientists, medical directors, software engineers, as well as a commercial team and administrative personnel. More...
About the Archimedes Model
The Archimedes Model is a realistic, validated mathematical model of human physiology, diseases, interventions, and healthcare systems that can run a virtual clinical trial with 1,000,000 people, spanning 30 years of life, in 3 hours. More...
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"I kept feeling the need for a much broader model that spanned all types of diseases and all types of interventions, so that you could make comparisons across diseases and interventions.
That is the type of model you need if you want to help solve problems such as comparing the values of different interventions, setting priorities, optimizing the quality of care, designing performance measures, creating incentive programs, or controlling costs while maximizing quality."
David Eddy, M.D., Ph.D.
Founder of Archimedes
