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Archimedes: Archimedes Model
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Archimedes, the greatest mathematician of the ancient world, demonstrated how small forces can move great weights by means of a lever. That same principle forms the foundation of the Archimedes Model, a revolutionary health care model that provides the lever to move and manipulate vast amounts of data in a way that simulates reality, improving and accelerating health care decision-making at many points along the health care continuum.
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[One] invention attributed to Archimedes is the orrery, a kind of planetarium in which model planets are moved by clockwork to simulate the movements of actual planets (in his time, in Ptolemaic epicycles, not in Keplerian ellipses). Such devices were made in Hellenic times, and it is probable that Archimedes made one, although less probable that he had the original idea for the mechanism.
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"The potential for vastly improving health care through the use of this model is very exciting," said David Eddy, MD, PhD, who with Len Schlessinger, PhD developed Archimedes for Kaiser Permanente. "It can be used to explore a wide variety of interventions on health, logistic and economic outcomes of major diseases."
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