By ECRI Picture a traffic jam in a parking garage: Navigating the aisles requires some careful maneuvering when a lot of vehicles are present in a confined space. A similar experience was ob... Read more

ECRI Institute addresses the hazards associated with retained surgical sponges and recommends broader adoption of technologies that supplement the manual sponge-counting process. Read more

By ECRI Patient burns resulting from the misconnection of a “flying lead” bipolar electrosurgical cable should be a thing of the past. For decades, ECRI Institute and other organizations hav... Read more

For the second year in a row, cyber threats top ECRI Institute’s annual Top 10 list of health technology hazards. Read more

Digital radiographic (DR) systems use various methods to acquire electronic x-ray images, which are digitized for viewing, storage, or hard-copy printing. Read more

As detailed in last month’s issue, a team from Boston Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) earned ECRI Institute’s 2018 Health Devices Achievement Award for its development of a mobile app... Read more

Smartphones and tablets have become a vital tool for so many of us. They help us learn new information, communicate with others and sometimes just pass the time. Read more

By ECRI ECRI Institute has addressed many new technologies in each edition of its annual Top 10 Hospital C-suite Watch List. Some have panned out, some have not, and some, like Google Glass,... Read more