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.
Read MoreFrom the age of 10, Steve Grimes, set his eyes on a career in engineering. Suffice it to say that he made his dreams come true—as Grimes is the 2016 recipient of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s “HTM Leadership Award.“
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At the end of 2016, Mary Logan will retire as president and CEO of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Only the second administrator to run the organization in its 48-year history, she has accomplished a great deal over her nearly 8-year tenure. Now, she’s ready to turn over the organization’s next chapter to a new leader.
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Jeffrey C. Lerner, ECRI Institute’s president and CEO, has been selected as one of “50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety for 2016” in the United States by Becker’s Hospital Review. Additional recipients include Mark R. Chassin, MD, president and CEO of The Joint Commission, and Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, president and CEO of the National Patient Safety Foundation.
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If you’re attending only one professional conference this year, chances are it’s AAMI—and that’s a good thing. The annual gathering of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is the largest in the field, with more than 2,200 people in attendance.
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