MedErr DataApplication Ltd. News Release

Release Date:            September 28, 2006

Release #:                  001

New Company Challenges Medical Industry Leaders to Reduce Errors, Save Lives and Limit Rising Healthcare Costs

A new company, MedErr DataApplication Ltd., has invited the nation’s leading medical and computer science schools to enter into a collaborative partnership, one that uses newly developed software as a tool for an overall goal of decreasing the number of medical errors that occur every year. 

Coming soon in January of 2007, MedErr DataApplication Ltd. will be releasing its new software, which, along with cooperation from the medical industry, could become the world’s first standardized deterrence against the global pandemic of medical errors. 

Why is such software, along with collaborative partnerships with the medical industry necessary? Consider the fact that, according to the Nov. 1999 study by The Institutes of Medicine, “To Err is Human,” medical errors are responsible for 42,000-98,000 deaths each year just in the U.S., and have an annual industry expense of $37-$50 billion. 

“There are approximately 7,000 hospitals in the country and although each has its own, individual program to reduce errors, the nation’s error rate continues to climb,” said William Hoyes, the founder and President of MedErr DataApplication Ltd.. “Our company is introducing the first inter-facility, cooperative and standardized confrontation of the disturbing medical error pandemic.”

During MedErr DataApplication Ltd.’s research and development stage of the software, known as eAppliedData, many universities and leading medical facilities offered helpful input and indicated an interest in future partnerships. 

Now that the engineering of MedErr DataApplication Ltd.’s error reduction software tool is close at hand, The company has offered universities a formal cooperative arrangement. The initial invitations were sent to medical or computer science schools including

-          University of Notre Dame

-          Medical University of South Carolina

-          Rochester Institute of Technology

-          Clemson University

-          University of Texas

-          Stanford University

-          Northwestern University

Hoyes and other MedErr DataApplication Ltd. supporters, including the highly proactive Board of Directors are eager to move forward with the new product this January. According to Hoyes, MedErr DataApplication Ltd.’s Board of Directors is “our most valuable asset,” boasting healthcare industry leaders associated with the nation’s leading hospitals.

MedErr DataApplication Ltd.’s Board of Directors:

Randolph Smoak, M.D.

Dr. Smoak has served at the highest positions in the medical field having been the 155th President of the American Medical Association (AMA), and Past Chairman of the World Medical Association, (WMA).  He also serves as a Commissioner of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and as a member of the Board of Directors, National Healthcare Quality Forum.

Barry Robert Davis, M.D., Ph.D.

          Dr. Davis is Professor and Director, Division of Biostatistics and Director, Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston.  He consults with numerous companies to include the majority of the world’s pharmaceutical firms, Microsoft, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and various universities and foundations. Dr. Davis has over 250 published papers, reports and contributed book chapters. His work includes in-depth U.S. Food and Drug Administration experience and contribution.  His peer review activity includes over 22 healthcare and scientific journals such as The Lancet, Journal of American Medicine Association (JAMA), and the New England Journal of Medicine.

Tomas Philipson, Ph.D.

          Dr. Philipson is a Professor in the Harris School, Public Policy, University of Chicago and a faculty member in the Department of Economics and Law School.  He is a visiting Fellow of The World Bank and has served as the Senior Economic Advisor to the Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as well the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Pamela Popp, J.D.

          Ms. Popp is an operational Senior Director – Risk Management – Stanford University Medical Center with over 20 years of relative experience.  She is President, American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, (ASHRM) as well as President, American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Certification Center.  Ms. Popp has worked with the nation’s largest healthcare liability carriers and many multi-hospital systems.

Patrick Jordan, EMBA

          Mr. Jordan is an operational Vice President within Partners Healthcare Group, a multi-hospital system owning and operating the world’s leading healthcare facilities.  These hospitals serve as the teaching facilities for Harvard University, School of Medicine and include Massachusetts General, Faulkner and Wellesley Hospitals.

William Duffy, R.N. MJ (Health Law), CNOR

          Mr. Duffy is an operational Vice President of Nursing, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corporation and responsible for clinical and fiscal performance of inpatient nursing care units at Evanston Hospital while having corporate responsibility for the peri-operative services at two other facilities.  These hospitals are among the top 15 rankings in the world and represent the teaching facilities of Northwestern University School of Medicine.  Mr. Duffy is also the President of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, (AORN)

Fernando Naveda, Ph.D.

          Dr. Naveda is Professor and Chair, School of Software Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology.  Relevant experience includes: systems analyst including analysis, design, implementation and maintenance of software programs; Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Kansas; Director of MS Software Engineering Program, University of Scranton, as well as consulting with numerous corporations.

William E. Hoyes, MBA

          Mr. Hoyes is the founder and President of MedErr DataApplication Ltd.  He has over 35 years experience as a specialist in patient quality of care and pharmaceutical marketing.  Mr. Hoyes authored the “OSHA Compliance Manual for Healthcare Facilities,” as published by Aspen publishers.  He is the former President of GMI, a healthcare safety company that contracts with over half of the nation’s hospitals.   was involved in the national hospital marketing efforts of Wyeth Laboratories and Ohio Medical Products, as well as supervising the Physician Continuing Education Program for Wyeth Labs.  Mr. Hoyes’s experience also includes being called upon by several bankruptcy courts to completely re-staff financially troubled hospitals while maintaining or improving their quality of patient care. 

“All you have to do is look at the names and affiliations of our board members to know that the medical industry has a dire need for a single, cooperative approach to reducing medical errors,” Hoyes said. “These proactive board members offer a wide range of talents, experiences and reputations, assets that ensure managed growth and success in reducing the global pandemic of preventable medical errors.”