Company with a strong ethical mission
Originating from a near tragedy, Isabel Healthcare started life in 1999 as the Isabel Medical Charity and
the charity remains one of the company’s largest shareholders. True to our roots and original goals, we
constantly strive to make Isabel as widely available as possible. Isabel is an outstandingly efficient tool
for disseminating medical knowledge to countries and regions where medical resources are limited. As part of
our core mission:
Isabel in Developing Countries
One of our key missions is to provide Isabel at heavily discounted rates to clinicians and hospitals in
over 130
EEN (Emerging Economic
Nations) countries where medical resources might be more limited. With just a phone and Wi-Fi,
clinicians working in the most remote environments can access first world medical knowledge and make a
massive difference to their patients’ outcome. Isabel is currently being used in countries ranging from
Guatemala to Swaziland. Here’s just one example:
David Flood, a US staff physician who spends 3 months every year working at the Maya Health Alliance in the
remoter regions of Guatemala has found Isabel particularly useful when seeing very young children who have
been referred to him with unusual developmental difficulties which have occurred as a result of the lack of
any early screening programmes. “I use Isabel to refine my thinking” he says. David also uses Isabel
regularly back in the US as a learning tool to help him improve his clinical reasoning skills.