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MDPAD TECHNOLOGY REDUCES MEDICATION ERRORS
MDPad Responds To Secretary Shalala's Call To Reduce Medical Errors In
Concurrence With U.S. Senate Hearings
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - January 24, 2000 - MDPad, a healthcare technology
company developing a hand-held electronic prescription pad in conjunction
with physicians at the Harvard Medical School, The Johns Hopkins School
of Medicine, and MIT, announced today that it has launched the MDPad2000
to a limited number of physicians nationwide.
In response to hearings by the U.S. Senate on the issue of medical errors
and Secretary of Health & Human Services Donna Shalala's call for
their elimination, MDPad also announced that it would be applying for
a grant from the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research to show how
it can eliminate medication errors by integrating technology into physician
practice. MDPad is committed to working with the U.S. Senate and Department
of Health and Human Services to help solve this critical public health
problem.
MDPad's hand-held computer, with attached printer, prints legible prescriptions
and integrates medical education into clinical practice. MDPad's mission
is to reduce medication errors and improve patient care by providing physicians
with focused medical education based on the individual clinical encounter.
"We are very encouraged that the U.S. Senate and the Department of
Health and Human Services have focused on the problem of medical errors
and we look forward to working with members of the committee and federal
officials in a joint effort to eliminate this grave public health concern",
said Dr. Pankaj Merchia, CEO of MDPad. "Our partnerships with world-renowned
researchers and physicians are specifically focused on integrating advances
in medicine and technology into physician practice to provide safer and
better care to the American people."
MDPad alerts physicians to a patient's allergies, potentially adverse
interactions and dosing errors before the patient receives the prescription
and eliminates handwriting errors by printing legible, easy to read prescriptions.
In addition the MDPad will function as an innovative tool for delivering
focused medical education to physicians as they care for patients. Indeed,
several leading physicians have described MDPad's education model as "the
future of medical education".
MDPad was founded by a group of physicians trained at Harvard Medical
School, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham &
Women's Hospital, and Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
The MDPad2000, with content from a national panel of expert physicians,
will be generally available to physicians later this quarter.
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