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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.