Intellectual Frontiers

From research to real-world impact

Intellectual Frontiers runs its own research programs in healthcare delivery, medical devices, clinical trials, insurance and digital authorization, payments and marketplaces, and education and training. We own what those programs produce, from the published papers through to the patents and the companies built on them.

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What we're researching

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Research areas

  • Continuous Care Orchestration

    Care-management software built as a system of record with alerting attached cannot be configured into a judgment system.

  • Zero Neo

    Zero Neo asks why a business should buy specialized software for operations when much of the functionality already exists in the platforms it owns, its systems of record, and increasingly capable AI.

  • Precision Education

    Precision Education treats the person, their context, and the evidence as the unit of learning rather than the course.

  • Business Model Innovation

    Healthcare is unusually intermediated: an innovation reaches a patient through physicians, hospitals, distributors, DME suppliers, pharmacies, PBMs, payers, employers, purchasing organisations and government programs, and each of them controls a different part of the money, workflow, reimbursement or risk.

  • Impossible Work

    What becomes possible when we stop assuming work has to look like it did before AI? This area studies useful work, products, services and organizational capabilities that were previously too expensive, slow, specialized, fragmented, tedious, continuous or attention-intensive to perform.

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Our patent portfolio

  • Healthcare delivery

    Referrals, care coordination, task and work list scheduling, patient navigation, and risk management. (7 families)

  • Medical devices

    Software inside and around regulated devices, and the data that moves off the device and into a chart. (3 families)

  • Clinical trials and research

    Running a study as software instead of a binder, with evidence produced while the trial runs. (1 family)

  • Insurance and digital authorization

    Self-controlled authorization to records and service delivery evidence. (3 families)

  • Payments, marketplaces, and credentialing

    Payment systems, settling marketplaces, crowdsourced credentialing, and reputation signals. (10 families)

  • Education, training, and system telemetry

    Precision education and training, rewardable content, and traceable operational telemetry. (6 families)

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How our business units work together to help you

Intellectual Frontiers IP

Find, prove, and protect an invention, then turn it into patent assets, research records, licenses, or investment evidence.

Intellectual Frontiers Press

Put evidence, methods, and operating knowledge into books, fieldbooks, papers, and summaries readers can use directly.

Intellectual Frontiers Network

Identify the specific people, operators, experts, and firms most likely to move a thesis forward, with evidence for each judgment.

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Bring the problem you already have.

An authorization backlog nobody can explain. Device data that will not make it into the chart. A trial that reconciles for six weeks after the last patient visit. A marketplace that cannot prove what it settled. Describe what is happening and how it was measured, and we will tell you within two weeks whether there is an invention in it.

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