What Clarity excels at…

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Products and Services

After over 15 years of Research and Development, Clarity Informatics products and services are new, innovative, unique and fulfil our mission “... to bring about radical improvements in clinical safety and quality”

Our services are provided through Clarity’s subsidiary the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle (SCHIN), and these can been reviewed in more detail here.

At the heart of Clarity’s products are two unique sources of intellectual property.

First, in collaboration with the UK’s NHS, we have accumulated, reviewed and constantly updated a world-leading register of evidence-based clinical knowledge and drugs knowledge.

Second, through advanced software engineering, built around a cutting-edge ontology model, this knowledge is collected, managed and applied in the most useful way possible for healthcare professionals – providing them with greatly enhanced decision-support, administration, evaluation and training capabilities.

In addition, Clarity is able to deliver its products across multiple platforms, media and locations around the world from the smallest to largest scales. Our products can be introduced in stand-alone form or integrated with (and tailored to) local systems. Drawing upon our expertise in developing some of the key infrastructure for NHS Connecting for Health, we are able to deliver anything from simple paper-copy patient information leaflets to, at the far end of the scale, a fully-integrated “intelligent health network” across a nation state.

To parapharase Wikipedia

“An ontology in informatics terms is a formal representation of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the properties of that domain, and may be used to define the domain.

In theory, an ontology is a "formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualisation". An ontology provides a shared vocabulary, which can be used to model a domain – that is, the type of objects and/or concepts that exist, and their properties and relations.

Ontologies are used in artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, software engineering, biomedical informatics, library science, and information architecture as a form of knowledge representation about the world or some part of it.”