Policy & Guideline Analysis
The current situation
Healthcare policy decisions can affect millions of people and involve up to billions of dollars. Before implementing changes, plan administrators need a way to evaluate the effects of new policies, including the anticipated benefits and costs. Because of the complexity and costs involved, it is not feasible to obtain this information through clinical trials or other empirical methods.
The Archimedes advantage
The Archimedes Model is a powerful simulation platform that enables policy makers to test assumptions, compare scenarios, and quantify the outcomes of policy options before implementing them. The Model offers many advantages:
- It incorporates multiple diseases, interventions, and protocols important to policy makers.
- It can be tailored to represent any population, disease state, or intervention.
- Users can evaluate the effects of their programs in different populations to gain an understanding of the true impact of policy decisions.
- Costs and quality-adjusted life year (QALY) disutilities can be changed post-hoc, to facilitate flexible and robust sensitivity analyses without having to re-run the simulation.
How you can use the Archimedes Model
Cardio-Metabolic Risk (CMR) Forecast Dataset. The CMR forecast dataset contains the results from 19 simulated controlled trials that compared current levels of care with 20 different interventions for managing cardio-metabolic risk. The dataset includes data from 100,000 patients representative of the U.S. population enabling you to evaluate the benefits and costs of policies and guidelines related to cardio-metabolic risk. A free 7-day evaluation subscription is available to determine if your questions have been anticipated in the CMR dataset. More...
ARCHeS Innovator. ARCHeS Innovator is a web-based tool you can use to set up, run, and evaluate simulations using the Archimedes Model. You can examine conditions, treatments, and outcomes related to coronary artery disease, stroke, diabetes and its complications, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and smoking ARCHeS Innovator gives you the power to predict and quantify the outcomes of policy changes using various assumptions and scenarios. More...
Modeling & Consulting Services. Archimedes provides comprehensive support to help you run custom simulations and build custom disease models. Our team of scientists and physicians will work with you to answer complex questions about the effects of new policies on populations of interest to you. More...
