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Marcus Schabacker Named ECRI Institute’s New CEO and President

ECRI Institute’s board of trustees has announced the appointment of Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, as its new CEO and president. Schabacker is a board-certified anesthesiologist and intensive care specialist with more than 18 years of senior leadership experience serving the medical device and pharmaceutical industries across the healthcare value chain.

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Grant Aims to Boost Health IT Safety Initiative

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has awarded $3 million to ECRI Institute for a 3-year effort to boost the safe design, implementation, and use of electronic health records (EHRs) and health information technology. This new grant supports three years of groundwork by The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, a multi-stakeholder collaborative convened by ECRI Institute in 2013 to make health information technology safer.

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