FIRST CONSULTING GROUP

First Consulting Group provides outsourcing, consulting, system implementation and integration, software development, staff augmentation, and research services for clients in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company’s health delivery services segment offers business and clinical process improvement, care and disease management, clinical transformation, patient safety and computerized physician order entry, and clinical system implementation and integration services, as well as strateg... ic systems planning and optimization of information technology investments for healthcare delivery clients. The health delivery outsourcing segment provides IT outsourcing services such as hiring IT staff and operating IT operations for health delivery clients. The life sciences segment designs and develops various processes and information systems used by life sciences enterprises in the drug development and commercialization lifecycle. It also licenses FirstDoc, an enterprise content management solution. The health plan segment provides health plan operations, program management, and health plan information systems that help its clients in automating and improving core health plan processes such as claims administration, provider contracting and reimbursement, servicing members, and reporting. The software services segment provides software development and other information technology services for its clients. The software products segment offers FirstGateways HealthView, a web-based viewer that enables users to access patient clinical data, as well as other important data sources on the internet and site’s intranet. It also offers FirstGateways VLink, an integration engine that enables the collection, integration, aggregation, and distribution of clinical data. First Consulting Group was founded in 1980 and is based in Long Beach, California.More