Global Health Outcomes, Inc. (GHO) is a health care research and analytics firm that focuses on health outcomes and comparative effectiveness research.  Through its novel and proprietary methods, GHO develops and provides innovative health information products and services, which include consulting, health policy research reports and disease-based health outcomes indices (HOIs).  Disease-based HOIs measure and forecast health outcomes at the population-level to reflect the health care industry’s core activity, by measuring, analyzing and organizing outcomes data by particular diseases.

Precision, reliability and transparency are the three principles that guide GHO’s disease-based HOIs.  Through a methodology created by clinicians, epidemiologists and health policy experts, each HOI is engineered to reflect the most relevant clinical, economic and humanistic outcomes that are available.  Each HOI is updated at frequent intervals to capture the relative health gain or burden of a particular disease over time.  Furthermore, each HOI is stratified by a particular sub-population, such as by geography, age, insurance coverage and ethnicity.  As a result of continuous testing and validation, GHO’s disease-based HOIs are superior to current health outcomes measurements.

A diverse spectrum of participants in the health care industry will benefit from disease-based HOIs.  Stakeholders include government healthcare programs, managed care organizations, life sciences, patient advocacy groups and the life insurance industry.  Each of these stakeholders will benefit from a mechanism that can accurately gauge the health of populations and provide a tool for cost-benefit analysis of new and existing treatment options. 

Coupled with direct benefits to patients, providers and payers, GHO’s disease-based HOIs may further be utilized by investors to facilitate risk management and investment decisions.  In addition to providing insights into the health care industry, GHO is actively creating methods to create financial derivate instruments from the HOIs.  These derivatives may then be used to hedge against fluctuations in health outcomes or capture value movements of asset groups. 

As a minority owned and operated organization, GHO is particularly cognizant of health issues affecting minority populations.  To this end, GHO is working to eliminate health disparities through data-driven, population-based metrics applied to minority communities.