New Medstat Patient Safety Product Helps Hospitals Monitor and Report Medical Errors
October 27 2003 - 1:05PM
PR Newswire (US)
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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