Stakeholder process library

See how an idea becomes defensible healthcare impact.

Explore the decisions, evidence, approvals, and review points behind collaborative publications, devices, clinical AI, community pilots, and policy translation.

Educational overview—not legal, regulatory, patent, ethics, or medical advice. The exact pathway is defined for each project and jurisdiction.

Five governed pathways

Complex work becomes clearer when the gates are visible.

Choose a pathway. Each stage is a decision gate—not a promise that the next stage, approval, patent, journal acceptance, or scale-up will occur.

Research publication

From clinical question to a citable record

The collaborator contributes the question, context, appropriately governed data, and clinical interpretation. microscopIA works alongside the team on methods, analysis, interpretation, writing, submission, and revision.

  1. 01

    Fit & feasibility

    Clarify question, population, intended output, data provenance, team, and practical value.

  2. 02

    Governance gate

    Confirm ethics determination, facility authorization, consent or waiver, contracts, and secure transfer route.

  3. 03

    Analysis plan

    Lock outcomes, methods, missing-data rules, authorship expectations, and reproducibility plan before analysis.

  4. 04

    Build the evidence

    Clean governed data, analyse, interpret uncertainty, and review findings with clinical contributors.

  5. 05

    Write together

    Draft, verify references and figures, record CRediT contributions, and obtain every author’s approval.

  6. 06

    Submit & improve

    Select a journal, submit, answer peer review, and make iterative improvements under the agreed scope.

Shared accountability

Who owns which decisions?

The collaboration is real: responsibility remains distributed rather than quietly transferred.

01

Clinical or institutional partner

Owns the clinical context, lawful access, local approvals, data provenance, clinical interpretation, and authorised decisions.

02

microscopIA

Provides governed methodological, analytical, engineering, implementation, writing, and coordination capacity within the agreed scope.

03

Independent authorities

Ethics committees, regulators, journals, patent offices, funders, and institutional offices make their own decisions.

04

Affected people

Patients, communities, users, and frontline teams should inform needs, risks, usability, equity, and acceptable implementation.

Understand the clocks

A project has several timelines—not one marketing deadline.

The public service target can be measured only after a complete, approved submission enters the agreed workflow.

01

Readiness

Time to complete approvals, contracts, data documentation, transfer, and quality checks.

02

microscopIA delivery

The contracted work period, with dependencies, pause conditions, milestones, and scope stated in writing.

03

External review

Ethics, regulators, journals, patent offices, funders, and institutions control independent review periods.

04

Implementation

Adoption, procurement, training, manufacturing, clinical validation, and scale require separate plans.

Choose the right first gate

Bring the question—not patient data—to an initial review.

Tell us the intended outcome, setting, available evidence or data, approvals, team, and deadline. We will identify the appropriate pathway and material gaps before proposing scope.