Oneworld Accuracy is a leading healthcare informatics company, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, that specializes in the provision of Internet-enabled External Quality Assessment tools used by medical laboratories and healthcare organizations to assess, monitor and improve the accuracy and reliability of their diagnostic test results. We currently have 47 collaboration members and more than 8,000 laboratories in 55 countries. Our mission is to achieve universal testing accuracy for improved healthcare for all people.

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.