History
The Institute of Consultative Bioethics (ICBioethics) is a provider of comprehensive knowledge delivery software and consulting services that support health care, government, and other highly regulated industries. Dr. Kathy Gennuso and her husband Rich Gennuso formed ICBioethics in response to the lack of suitable, easy-to-use bioethics training resources available in the marketplace. ICBioethics’ uniquely designed software product EthAssist® simplifies knowledge delivery and training for any organization who has students or staff affected by healthcare issues and regulations.
Founded in mid-2012, ICBioethics is uniquely focused on moving organizations beyond basic practice and compliance — by creating and maintaining systems that are responsive, controllable, sustainable, and sound — and by supporting staff growth, development, and ethics or compliance related decision-making effectiveness. While intent on serving clients, ICBioethics never loses sight of keeping ethics firmly rooted in the core values of its own organization, affirmed recently as they received the 15th Annual Pittsburgh Business Ethics Award.
We, at ICBioethics, possess and deliver highly credentialed expertise in ethics specifically tailored to preparing, training, or retraining professionals in health care and related industries. Not only do we provide teaching and training related to ethical actions and accountabilities, we also develop processes and practices into the day-to-day workflow and patient care.
Our core ethics offerings are surrounded by the support and guidance of seasoned business professionals with leadership experience in organizational and healthcare ethics, IT, systems, organizational and project management, research, planning, and organizational culture transformation. This team has created a unique operational model to produce positive change, sustainability, and success for our clients such as Sentara Health System, Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM).
Ethics refers to the set of formal and informal rules that guide behavior in societies and organizations. Although humans the world over embrace similar values, interpretation and rank order of good versus bad can vary widely by individual, culture, and situation. That’s why communities enact laws, and workplaces adopt policies and standards.
For organizations of 100 or more employees, defined processes for managing and reporting training and compliance are essential risk management measures. However, few organizations have internal resources for designing effective training programs, and even fewer have the expertise to develop state-of-art technology tools to guide employee behavior and decision making in complex, highly regulated environments.
EthAssist provides customized solutions that integrate pre-loaded, peer-reviewed content and modules with your learning assets, policies, and regulatory requirements. Our software/service is backed by a professional team of management, technology, ethics, operations, service, and compliance advisors who can quickly and seamlessly implement best-in-class learning and development tools for compatibility with your systems and operating needs.
Chief Executive Officer
Kathy Detar Gennuso, Doctor of Healthcare Ethics, MSBLE
Kathleen Detar Gennuso, DHCE, MSBLE, is a recognized leader in transforming and advancing individuals, initiatives, and organizations. Traversing multiple industries and disciplines throughout her career, Dr. Gennuso has catalyzed effective organizational change, spanning the highest-level, enterprise-wide undertakings. Ultimately Dr. Gennuso's professional and advanced educational pursuits - combined with her interests - led her to her doctoral degree in healthcare ethics at Duquesne University. With the skills developed throughout her career in technology and organizational leadership, she began to address the problem of limited, accessible information about patient rights and compliance for frontline clinicians – when and where they need it most – at the bedside. After several years working with LECOM, the largest medical school in the US, Dr. Gennuso was asked to develop the Master of Science Program in Biomedical Ethics, launched in 2018. With the skills developed throughout her career in technology and organizational transformation, she began to address the problem of limited, accessible information about patient rights and compliance for frontline clinicians – when and where they need it most – at the bedside.
Her organization, the Institute of Consultative Bioethics (ICBioethics), was founded in 2012. ICBioethics was built around the vision of creating a technology solution to a problem that affects everyone: How can we incorporate ethics effectively into daily health care to inform and protect organizations, practitioners, and patients alike?
Education:
Doctorate, Healthcare Ethics – Duquesne University
MS, Organizational Ethics and Business Leadership – Duquesne University
BS, Information Technology – University of Pittsburgh
Chief Operating Officer
Rich Gennuso
As the system architect, Rich focuses on designing tools and processes that address your management and operational needs while making it easy for your users to improve their job performance. Through four decades of information technology and business management experience in pharmaceuticals, lean manufacturing, and utilities, he has orchestrated systems integration during mergers and acquisitions, managed multi-million-dollar IT operations, and delivered innovative solutions for a wide range of business challenges. He understood the patchwork of legacy systems that inhibited new technologies’ adoption and designed EthAssist to interface easily and quickly with any system or operating platform.
Our overarching goals are human-centered design and tangible benefits for clients.