RIDGEWOOD, N.J., Feb. 13, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- As the family of John Ritter takes a $67 million lawsuit to trial for the actor's death more than four years ago, the case is putting a spotlight on one of the biggest problems facing the medical profession today: the alarming rate of medical misdiagnosis.
"It's been estimated that the frequency of diagnostic error in patients with known disease is 30 percent in radiology, 39 percent in pathology and 24 percent in lab results," says Edward Coleman, M.D., professor and vice chairman of the department of radiology, Duke University Medical Center.
That means that in 2008, it is likely that almost everyone in America will know someone who is a victim of a medical misdiagnosis -- and the runaway costs and anxiety associated with it.
Enter Premerus -- the first and only diagnostic management company. Just launched, the new enterprise hopes to improve patient outcomes significantly by making the best imaging diagnostic specialists available to read patient workups.
"We're taking the information and moving it wherever the expert resides and then getting the interpretation back for the patient -- wherever he or she might live," says Premerus CEO Curt Thorne.
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