Unicist Research Groups in Healthcare

These Research Groups are groups to develop and implement technologies in the healthcare business. The objective of these groups is to develop the conceptual design of the complex aspects of healthcare processes or to develop possible future scenarios of the healthcare business and their consequences. These groups are also responsible for developing “concept-prototypes” of business processes in the healthcare industry. The researches in life sciences and health provided the necessary structural fundamentals that need to be managed to integrate health with healthcare in order to improve patient orientation and health. They are integrated by teams that include physicians and managers who have notorious interest in solving the complexity of healthcare and dealing with future scenarios.

Their Methodology

The framework of the organization of these groups is given by:

• The use of the Business Emulator
• The use of prototypers to start real actions immediately.
• The development of the prototype to manage the solutions. The development is based on the “recreation” of the prototypers.


The unicist approach to research was developed to find the fundamentals that drive complex adaptive environments. It allows finding the KNOW WHY of a given reality and integrating it with the KNOW HOW that is provided by the empirical approach.

• The use of the conceptual design provided by The Unicist Research Institute.

They are integrated by:

• At least one member who has the fundamental knowledge of the activity.
• Two members who have a solid technical knowledge.
• Several members with empirical knowledge of the activity.

The Leaders of the Groups

I) The Coordinator, who is responsible for guiding the group towards the objectives that have been defined.

The coordinator has the full responsibility for the diagnoses and for achieving the results that have been defined as being possible to be achieved. The participants of the think tank also have full responsibility for the results after they agreed that such results are possible.

II) The “Fallacy-Shooter”, who is responsible for assuring the quality of the foundations and justifications in the decision making processes.

The “Fallacy-Shooter” is the person responsible for guiding the action-reflection-action process in order to improve the accuracy of the diagnoses and of the work processes. This guidance is based on the development of destructive tests to confirm the limits of the validity of knowledge and non-destructive tests to validate solutions.

III) The “Ombudsman”, who is responsible for monitoring the value generation of the R&D processes.

The “Ombudsman” is responsible for monitoring that the proposals respond to the functional needs of the solutions that are required; she/he guarantees results. The ombudsman represents the “user” and is responsible for generating value to the environment.

The Unicist Standard

A Unicist Research Group follows Unicist Standards, to deal with complex adaptive systems, among them:

• For Systemic Problem Solving
• For the Research of Adaptive Systems
• For Strategic Thinking
• For Pilot Testing
• For Change Management
• For the Design of Adaptive Systems
• For Pilot Test based Reflection Processes
• For the Building of Reliable Knowledge