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About healthCare cybernetics

...the minimum bare essentials

healthCare cybernetics (hCc) is a self-funded, private sector think and do tank - of geographically distributed wise heads and protégés.

 

 hCc (through its 3 original Enterprise Practices) focuses on specific developing and high-impacting health sector domains:

  • eHealth (the contemporary practice of healthcare provision, supported by electronic processes and information and communication technologies – ICT)

  • Health Tourism [8 Segments]

  • Management of Aging

hCc addresses these domains by:

  • Providing Applied Knowledge, Analysis and Strategic Thought

  • Initiating and Implementing Integration and Development Projects

  • Providing Executive Education

And now, hCc has an additional Practice dedicated to New Health Services Development.

As a think and do tank, our thinking and doing tends to be large scale and long term.

The Practices have free access to the common technology and know-how – and resources, but each has developed its own Knowledge Base.

hCc’s services are aimed at governmental and large scale private sector entities. Projects take the form of national-, regional- or local-region level initiatives or concerted actions.

 

A story goes with it

healthCare cybernetics (hCc) started life (in 1997) as a self-funded R&D Project whose agenda was to study Healthcare Systems, find out what ails them and “package” this knowledge (and understanding) as the infrastructure for a viable private sector Enterprise (with a long-term view of things).

 

The “research” was about studying Healthcare Systems and finding out what ails them.

 

The “development” was about “packaging” the knowledge and understanding acquired during the “research” to create the infrastructure, mechanisms and tools of a private sector enterprise.
In 2003 hCc was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company and labeled itself a think and do tank.

 

Wise Heads and Protégés

More than 25 years of ongoing personal contact, interaction and network building by hCc’s founder, together with the knowledge and insight gained in the process of developing a universal system of healthcare sector integration and charting has provided us with:

  • Access to a rich international pool of academic, clinical, corporate and administrative players (covering practically all the life science / healthcare disciplines and healthcare “products and services” sector)

  • The ability to identify leaders, creative thinkers and doers

It is by drawing on these two facilities that we created our think and do tank of wise heads.

The wise heads have been asked to also bring along their protégés - young, techno-savvy and enthusiastic professionals (budding opinion formers – the health sector leaders of tomorrow).

 

Note: A complete listing (with particulars) of the the think and do tank Wise Heads and Protégés associated with each of our three Enterprise Practices can be found in the corresponding Practice websites.

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Partnering

Sharing of Knowledge

 

The Enterprise Practices

eHealth

Health Tourism

Management of Aging

New Health Services Development

(During the current stage of re-organization and development, some of our Sites may be temporarily inaccessible)

 

hCc aims not to jump onto bandwagons or join rat races.

And being what it is, hCc does not go out of its way to promote itself or attract media attention.

 

Cybernetics - and its "father"

...a story goes with it



Norbert Wiener

The term cybernetics (originating from the Greek “kyvernitiki” - the science or art of steermanship / governing / governance) was first used in 1947 when Norbert Wiener (a multifaceted mathematician / scientist - Tufts, Harvard, MIT) - used it to name a discipline touching upon such other established disciplines as electrical engineering, mathematics, biology, neurophysiology, anthropology, and psychology.

It was adopted as part our corporate name to make the point that we intend to act as a driving, guiding and shaping force in the healthcare sector domains we address.


A story goes with it

...with due recognition to Damon Runyon

"A Story Goes with It" is the title of a short story by one of my favorite writers (Damon Runyon - Shakespeare of the Speakeasy).
Presumably, providing a story to go along with information makes this information more credible and reliable - and thus more valuable.
In Damon Runyon’s story this was in the context of “selling” betting advice and information regarding a “fixed” sure winner – at the horse races.
Constantine Constantinides
CEO, healthCare cybernetics

 

Damon Runyon (without his hat)


 

Emvio is Greek for “living”.
All our documents, publications and websites are EMVIO™ (living) Documents – meaning that they are evolving (probably containing errors) and never definitive - aiming for perfection but probably never achieving it.

This approach (hopefully) helps make our writings timely and timeless.

 

Making things simple is anything but simple

A long career, which involved a lot of thinking and doing, taught me to take complex things and spend time and effort making them simple - but not simplistic (dumbed down).

And, besides, the more you know - the less you need.

Constantine Constantinides
CEO, healthCare cybernetics