# Pascal Metrics

> Pascal Metrics is a Washington, DC and Austin-based healthcare data analytics company that turns real-time electronic health record data into clinically validated adverse-event outcomes. As a U.S.-certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO #0047), it operates the Pascal Platform - anchored by trigger-based surveillance and machine-learning models - to help hospitals and health systems detect, predict, and reduce preventable patient harm. Founded in 2007 and named after Blaise Pascal, the 'founder of risk management,' the company claims one of the largest validated adverse-event outcomes datasets in the world.

- **Founded:** 2007
- **Headquarters:** Washington, DC, United States (with offices in Austin, TX and Sydney, Australia)
- **Founders:** Drew Ladner (Founder, Chairman & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~30 employees
- **Products:** Pascal Platform, Pascal HealthBench, Pascal Safety, Pascal Risk, Pascal Strategy
- **Notable:** Operates U.S.-certified Patient Safety Organization PSO #0047., First to use real-time EHR and health IT data inside a U.S.-certified PSO and to train predictive models with adverse-event outcomes using machine learning., Trigger method consistently identifies at least 10x more serious adverse events than standard event-reporting systems.

## Products & services

- **Pascal Platform** — Cloud SaaS platform that converts real-time EHR and health IT data into clinically validated adverse-event outcomes via evidence-based trigger and algorithmic logic, with clinical surveillance, data collection, reporting, and interactive analytics.
- **Pascal HealthBench** — Web-based patient safety software that integrates with Epic, Cerner, Meditech and other major EHRs for clinical surveillance, harm detection, and analytics.
- **Pascal Safety** — Solution focused on detecting and reducing preventable patient harm using the trigger method, which identifies roughly 10x more serious adverse events than legacy event-reporting systems.
- **Pascal Risk** — Clinical risk analytics and Risk Trigger Monitor tooling to identify and mitigate emerging clinical risk in real time.
- **Pascal Strategy** — Consulting and strategy services, including the Team-based Engagement Model co-developed with the Mayo Clinic, to drive organizational culture and high-reliability transformation.
- **Patient Safety Organization (PSO #0047)** — Federally certified U.S. Patient Safety Organization providing a secure, non-punitive 'safe harbor' learning environment with legal data protection for participating providers.

## Achievements

- Operates U.S.-certified Patient Safety Organization PSO #0047.
- First to use real-time EHR and health IT data inside a U.S.-certified PSO and to train predictive models with adverse-event outcomes using machine learning.
- Trigger method consistently identifies at least 10x more serious adverse events than standard event-reporting systems.
- Claims one of the largest validated adverse-event outcomes datasets in the world, spanning 15+ years.
- Featured in The Wall Street Journal for its patient-safety methodology.
- Team-based Engagement Model co-developed with the Mayo Clinic.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Refreshed brand and site assets, including new Pascal logo and product framing (Platform, Safety, Risk, Strategy).
- **2024-01** — Published thought leadership on AI for patient safety and a 'CFO-grade business case for patient safety.'

## Links

- Website: https://pascalmetrics.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pascal-metrics
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/pascalmetrics
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/Pascal-Metrics-Inc/510784985616749

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Last updated: 2026-07-03