Quantros, a Leading Patient Safety Company, Announces Strategic Alliance with Leading Quality and Safety Training Firm HPTI.

MILPITAS, Calif. -- Alliance Augments Quantros' Product Offering To Hospitals To More Comprehensively Address Patient Safety

Quantros, Inc., a leading patient safety company in healthcare, and Human Performance Training Institute (HPTI), a leading safety training firm, today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to more comprehensively address patient safety needs in healthcare.

Quantros provides healthcare institutions with the technology to capture and analyze data related to medical errors and near misses in creating information that provides visibility into the root causes of the errors. They provide efficient data collections, actionable knowledge in real time and a large and continuously growing database of adverse events and near missed for hospitals and healthcare facilities. They will add to this capability by offering healthcare organizations HPTI services which provide the human factors skills necessary to detect, prioritize and manage risks and errors in a technology centered, team-based environment.

According to Dr. Sanjaya Kumar, President and Chief Medical Officer at Quantros, "The strategic partnership with HPTI puts in place another important element in enhancing patient safety which is training designed to improve effective communications in complex and highly stressful healthcare environments," he said. "They are a leader in this area and we feel strongly they can help our customers to take the knowledge gained from our systems and make them even more actionable," he continued.

The healthcare industry is increasing focused on enhancing teamwork and more effective group communication in enhancing patient safety. In JCAHO's latest Sentinel Event Alert #30 published in July on Preventing Infant Death and Injury recommends this type of training.

Scott Schutack CEO of HPTI commented, "This is a very logical alliance in that we provide the next step in addressing patient safety to the knowledge that Quantros provides. That's really the detection phase and Quantros' adverse event database is the foundation upon which we can then help healthcare organizations to address the root causes through open, yet structured communications program that can help to prevent those same errors from happening again," he stressed. "We utilize the expertise from Aviation and teach the key components of Crew Resource Management, which include briefings and deliberate communication to prevent medical error."

About Quantros

Founded in 1996, Quantros is a leading patient safety company in healthcare providing real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety such as adverse events and near misses, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, nearly 700 hospitals are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.

About The Human Performance Training Institute (HPTI)

The Human Performance Training Institute (HPTI) was founded to help improve teamwork in safety-sensitive settings in order to avoid and mitigate errors, incidents and accidents. Their work is derived from Aviation Crew Resource Management (CRM) training that has helped to create and sustain a safety-first culture, resulting in an airline safety record exceeding six-sigma levels of performance.

The principle goal of CRM is to equip individuals with human factors tools to use in an operational environment to overcome the catastrophic consequences of human error. HPTI provides the human factors skills necessary to detect, prioritize and manage risks and errors in a technology-centered team-based environment.