New Medstat Patient Safety Product Helps Hospitals Monitor and Report Medical Errors ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Medstat, a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX), today announced the release of Patient Safety Expert, a data collection and analysis product that helps healthcare providers record, monitor, and report medical errors and adverse clinical events. The clinical solution supports healthcare organizations' efforts to focus on patient safety by responding appropriately to increasingly high profile state and national safety mandates as well as voluntary reporting initiatives. Patient Safety Expert, part of Medstat's Performance Expert Suite of clinical management tools, is an easy-to-navigate, Internet-based decision support application. It is used to investigate the root causes of medical errors, integrate facilities' medical outcomes and safety data and compare them with industry norms, and meet regulatory reporting requirements. Medstat's patient safety services include a front-end organizational survey and consultative expertise to assess potential strategic, cultural, technical, and structural obstacles to a hospital's implementation of patient safety programs. Medstat's patient safety products and services form a "single source" of guidance for working across the organization -- from boardroom to patient bedside -- to create a safety agenda integrated with providers' overall quality programs. "Medstat partners with its customers to support their ability to plan, implement, and measure patient safety initiative outcomes," said Tom Summerill, vice president and general manager of Medstat's provider business. "Patient Safety Expert helps healthcare organizations link medical errors and internal process gaps to resource waste and organizational risk, enabling leaders to target opportunities to improve clinical and financial performance." Medstat is a healthcare information company that provides market intelligence and benchmark databases, decision support solutions, and research services for managing the cost and quality of healthcare. The company applies these capabilities to improve policy and management decision making for employers, government agencies, health plans, hospitals and provider networks, and pharmaceutical companies. Medstat is a business within The Thomson Corporation. The Thomson Corporation (http://www.thomson.com/ ), with 2002 revenues of $7.8 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value- added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX). DATASOURCE: Medstat CONTACT: Kelly Tolson of Medstat, +1-734-913-3707, Web site: http://www.medstat.com/

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