INSTITUTE FOR QUALITY EVALUATION AND HEALTH CARE

Bogotá, Colombia

About Us

The Institute for Quality Evaluation and Health Care (IECAS), established in 2010, offers consultancy, research, and academic training services. From a multidisciplinary perspective, it creates innovative solutions that respond to the needs of the health sector.

IECAS Team

We are a group, recognized and categorized by the National System of Science and Technology of Colciencias; composed of researchers and academics from Health Sciences and Human Sciences with experience in public health, epidemiology, health economics and management, statistics, and medical informatics.

Mission

To contribute to the development, organization, and improvement of the Colombian health system through the management, application, and generation of knowledge under the principles of quality, effectiveness, safety, equity, and transparency.

Vision

By 2026, we will be recognized as an institute of excellence in research, consultancy, and academic training that contributes to clinical, organizational, institutional, and political decision-making in the health sector, at both regional and national levels.

Services

Decision Analysis

We create tools and design models that contribute to decision-making and choices for achieving goals and objectives in the health sector.

Our services and experience:

Impact evaluations.
Stochastic models applied to decision making.
Simulation models applied to operations research.
Technology assessments (HTA).
Prioritization of alternatives and definition of objectives.

Health Economics

We develop research, technical studies, economic evaluations, and health policies.

Our services and experience:

Research in health financing, insurance, and labor economics.
Tools for health risk management.
Econometrics applied to health problems.
Cost-of-illness studies.
Design and evaluation of health policies.
Budget impact analysis of health interventions.
Economic evaluation studies.

Measurement & Information Analysis

We develop tools and measurement instruments that allow for rigorous evaluation of information and data on specific health activities or interventions.