4Pillars

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Proposition: The 4 Pillars Toolkit™ is a multi-sided cloud-based quality improvement (QI) platform that provides healthcare organizations with a library of up-to-date,evidence-based QI programs from leading medical educators. Unlike custom QI programs that require an investment of time and resources to develop in-house, The 4 Pillars™ Toolkit offers programs in a ready-to-implement format crafted by academic experts allowing outpatient clinicians to easily execute improvement protocols while treating patients. The 4 Pillars™ Immunization Toolkit targets QI protocols for vaccination. Early trials in over 50 primary care offices showed that practices who used the toolkit strategies and minimized missed opportunities for immunization improved vaccination rates. Further, primary care practices that more fully implemented the toolkit had larger increases in vaccination rates   Market Opportunity: More than 82% of physician group practices responding to a 2014 Medical Group Management Association Physician Practice Assessment reported that they actively engage in internal processes to improve clinical quality for the patients they serve. The estimated 4 Pillars™ market size for the Primary Care market segment, with over 200,000 practicing physicians is approximately $65 million annually. The 4 Pillars™ Toolkit will be monetized through the sale of licenses to scientific information providers and user fees from healthcare organizations employing 12.2 million healthcare professionals in the U.S.   Competitive Landscape: The 4 Pillars Toolkit addresses an emerging market in medical education. The likely competitors in this space will be continuing medical education providers who are inexperienced in long term behavior change and quality improvement implementation, and QI consultants designing custom programs with limited scale.   Technology: The 4 Pillars™ Toolkit delivers a library of quality improvement programs using modern internet software. Scalability, performance, and security are baked into the code through the use of peer reviewed open source components under active development. The 4 Pillars™ Toolkit provides all the tools that are necessary for a scientist to create exceptional QI programs and for an organization to then implement those programs to drive health outcome improvement and cost savings in clinical practice.