ECRI Names At-Home Medical Devices Top Health Tech Hazard
ECRI named challenges using medical devices at home as the most pressing health technology safety hazard for 2024.
ECRI named challenges using medical devices at home as the most pressing health technology safety hazard for 2024.
This annual award recognizes U.S. healthcare organizations for achieving excellence in overall spend management and adopting best practice solutions into their supply chain processes.
Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, ECRI’s president and CEO, has been honored by the Philadelphia Business Journal with a Leaders in Healthcare 2021 Award.
ECRI named challenges using medical devices at home as the most pressing health technology safety hazard for 2024.
Independent patient safety organization ECRI and the Association for Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals have partnered on a report that outlines key supply chain lessons and important risk mitigation strategies learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read MoreA new white paper on alert fatigue outlines key recommendations provider organizations can take to improve safety now and in the future.
Read MoreECRI has listed the complexity of managing devices that have been authorized through the EUA process at the top of its just-released 2021 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report.
Read MoreECRI has named Vancouver Coastal Health and Lower Mainland Biomedical Engineering as winners of its 14th Health Devices Achievement Award for their joint investigation into high-risk medication over-infusions.
Read MoreNew analyses by ECRI Institute show that more than 50% of the disposable isolation gowns it tested failed to meet standard levels of protection, putting healthcare workers at risk of exposure to blood-borne or other pathogens, as well as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Read MoreECRI Institute and its affiliate, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), announce that they will join leaders around the globe in supporting World Patient Safety Day on September 17, 2020.
Read MoreLeaders of ECRI and its affiliate, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, announce the launch of a joint Patient Safety Organization—an important step, officials say, in making medication, medical devices, and healthcare practices safer for patients across all care settings.