Clinical Focus is a startup medical information technology company  founded by Dr. Ernest Drucker and Jonathan Meyer in 1997.  Our founders firmly believed that there should be a better way for physicians to deal with the growing mass of information directed their way.   

While physicians in the information age understand that they must rely on emerging literature to properly treat their patients, the rapid growth in this literature has made it increasingly difficult.  The sheer volume of new articles appearing weekly (over 1,000 articles in the English language alone) makes it all but impossible to scan each of the new medical journals as they appear, to identify those items of potential interest, to read them in a timely fashion, and to save them for future reference.  The piles of journals sitting on many practitioners’ desks (mostly unread) bear testimony to this state of affairs.  Although some of this information is useful to them, most isn't. The physician must increasingly rely on email notifications from the journals (“Editor’s Picks”), reprints from pharmaceutical manufacturers, news media stories, and word of mouth from colleagues to point them to those new articles about new therapeutic developments that might be useful to them in their practices

The greater availability of information about medical literature through the Internet, e.g., 'Medline', has only exacerbated this problem.  To access the literature, the user must institute the search at each occasion and generate the specific search terms used for delimiting the selection of items, e.g., keywords.  Often these searches also provide much that is irrelevant.

The mission of Clinical Focus, therefore, has been to save physicians time in their task of keeping apprised of changes in clinical practice.

Dr. Drucker conceived of a method for sorting the relevant from the irrelevant, and, together with Mr.  Meyer founded Clinical Focus in order to put these ideas into practice. They have been aided in these efforts by an advisory board consisting of some of the leading thinkers and innovators in the medical information field.

The first tool developed to meet these goals, ChartLink, uses the physician's profile, as well as existing information (the patient’s chart) to seed a search engine that finds information relevant to patients, diagnoses and clinical specialties.