Drew Ladner is founding Chairman & CEO of Pascal Metrics, a data analytics company which pioneered the application of clinically validated adverse outcomes using real-time EHR and health IT data (AE Outcomes) to improve patient safety, clinical risk, and quality.
Using Pascal’s up to 24/7 mission-critical Virtual Patient Safety solution, clients identify 10x the level of serious patient harm as compared to the industry standard and reduce over 25% of it, which generates at least 3x to 5x annual ROI – all while identifying upstream clinical risk and improving the experience of patients and their families while care is being delivered.
Pascal was the first use real-time EHR and health IT data in a U.S.-certified Patient Safety Organization and to train predictive models with AE Outcomes using machine learning and AI.
Prior, Mr. Ladner was General Manager at JBoss, the leading open-source middleware leader [acquired by Red Hat]. Until 2004, he was CIO of the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s $2.6 billion IT organization. Subsequently, Mr. Ladner was appointed to the bipartisan Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, formed to prevent another 9-11.
Having worked across six continents, his international experience includes leading mobile telecommunications initiatives for AOL Time Warner in Europe, strategy consulting with a Bain & Company spinoff in emerging markets, and launching a micro-enterprise bank in East Africa.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellowship. He has co-authored peer-reviewed studies in Health Affairs, the International Journal of Clinical Informatics, and other publications.
Mr. Ladner holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MA in theology from the University of Oxford, and a BSFS in international economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and three sons.
