Company Mission
The mission of First Opinion Corporation is to make the collective expertise of the world's best clinicians available to practitioners, anytime, anywhere.

Company History
The history of First Opinion Corporation is one of invention, innovation and the development of an intellectual property portfolio that is broad in scope and global in breadth. Edwin Iliff, M.D. is a practicing physician in a busy emergency department, as well as a computer programmer. In the ER, Dr. Iliff has to quickly diagnose thousands of conditions each year. In the early 1980s he had a vision: he realized that nearly nine of ten complaints are confined to just a few thousand medical problems and that almost all of the primary care decisions involved are based upon a detailed medical history and self or assisted physical examination.

Dr. Iliff envisioned the use of personal computers to automate this diagnostic process. Testing and validating his ideas, he invented the list-based method of automated diagnosis in the late 1980s and programmed the initial FIRST OPINION® system. The First Opinion Corporation was born. First Opinion’s physicians, attorneys and computer scientists crafted the strategy of developing a global intellectual property portfolio of broad and interlocking claims. The company was confident that advancing technology and the rising demand for healthcare services, would create an environment for the First Opinion revolution. Their work continues today.

Company Vision
The World Health Organization estimates that more than half of the world's six billion people lack access to the most essential drugs - vaccines, antibiotics and painkillers - and more than a third of the world's children are malnourished. Many Third World governments spend less than 1 percent of their gross domestic product on healthcare, compared to 15 percent in the United States.

The irony is that the greatest barrier to healthcare in the Third World is the same as in the United States:  access to care. 

The First Opinion Corporation has a vision of worldwide healthcare evolution.  This vision is rooted in a tradition of patient service and a reverence for health and human life. First Opinion Corporation believes that timely access to relevant information is the key to an effective healthcare system in the Third World as much as it is in the First World. 

In accordance with its core corporate values and its belief in the worldwide advancement of healthcare, First Opinion will dedicate resources to the development and implementation of automated healthcare access and disease tracking systems in Third World countries. The goal is to relieve the shortage of healthcare personnel that exists in nearly all parts of the world by applying the Corporation's principle of the "knowledge of many in the service of one and the knowledge of one in the service of many".