Healthcare, the largest sector of the world economy, has failed to keep pace with rapidly evolving Internet and information technologies. As a result, the healthcare system has fundamental structural weaknesses that would be unacceptable in other industries.

One such weakness is that there is currently no infrastructure that assures the accuracy and reliability of medical diagnostics. This weakness radiates throughout the entire healthcare system as laboratory test results are known to trigger fully 80% of all clinical decisions.

The reason is that medical laboratories produce different and often inaccurate test results leading to repeated testing, incorrect diagnoses and improper treatments. The magnitude of this problem is increasing as handheld point-of-care technology moves diagnostics away from laboratory specialists to hospital wards, clinics, doctors’ offices and the home. Accordingly, standardization has become an urgent issue affecting healthcare systemically.

To standardize test results in this increasingly distributed environment, all diagnostic devices from mainframe analyzers to handheld devices will ultimately have to be connected via the Internet to an intelligent system that monitors, maintains and assures diagnostic accuracy throughout the network in real-time – a 24/7 real-time diagnostic accuracy grid. The critical need for such a connected intelligent network is not being met by existing solutions.

The mission of Oneworld Accuracy and its international affiliates is to form this diagnostic accuracy grid - providing fundamental infrastructure based on its proprietary technology in the Internet era just as core phone and electrical grids did in preceding eras.