Vitrana is a Malagasy word literally meaning 'a seam in a cloth' and provides a useful metaphor for the company. Vitrana consists of a group of health science IT practitioners coming together with a shared vision to drive major advances in the quality, efficiency and cost of clinical research, development and patient care through leveraging key technology innovations in clinical and healthcare information management. Vitrana's mission is to develop an integrated healthcare and life sciences IT platform, providing both clinical and healthcare application hosting, maintenance and comprehensive integration services across the enterprise. Vitrana believes that clinical research, development and patient care can be significantly improved through the adoption of key technology innovations in information management, focusing both on bottom line costs and on top line growth, leveraging information assets for improved insights and service quality. These innovations include the emergence of cloud-based architectures and the development of standards-based platforms for clinical and healthcare data management.