First Consulting Group, Inc. provides outsourcing, consulting, systems implementation and integration, consulting, software development, staff augmentation, and research services to clients in North America, Europe, and Asia. Its Health Delivery Services segment offers business and clinical process improvement, care/disease management, clinical transformation, patient safety and computerized physician order entry, and clinical system implementation and integration services; and strategic systems planning and optimization of information technology (IT) investments to healthcare delivery clients. The Health Delivery Outsourcing segment provides IT outsourcing services, such as hiring IT staff and operating IT operations to health delivery clients. It also offers assessment/due diligence, program management, discrete outsourcing, and application hosting services. The Life Sciences segment designs and develops various processes and information systems used by life sciences enterprises in the drug development and commercialization lifecycle. It also licenses FirstDoc, an enterprise content management solution. The Health Plan segment provides health plan operations, program management, and health plan information systems that help its clients in automating and improving core health plan processes, such as claims administration, provider contracting and reimbursement, servicing members, and reporting. The Software Services segment provides software development and other information technology services to its clients. The Software Products segment offers FirstGateways HealthView, a Web-based viewer that enables users to access patient clinical data, as well as other important data sources on the Internet and site’s intranet; FirstGateways VLink, an integration engine that enables the collection, integration, aggregation, and distribution of clinical data. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California. As of January 14, 2008, First Consulting Group Inc. is a subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE:CSC).