Organizations across the continuum of care are striving to become high-reliability organizations, and part of being highly reliable means staying vigilant and identifying problems proactivel... Read more
ECRI Institute, an independent trusted authority on healthcare practices and products, received a 3-year contract to establish and operate a new health care horizon scanning system for the P... Read more
Penn Medicine (Philadelphia, PA) won ECRI Institute’s 2019 Health Devices Achievement Award for developing an app that enables patients to wean off ventilators faster. ECRI Institute’s annua... Read more
Of all the things to worry about during surgery, proper functioning of the OR table probably isn’t high on most people’s list. Read more
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
New report pinpoints risks from EHRs, mobile health, behavioral health, clinician burnout, and more 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
A patient is lying on an apparently clean bed or stretcher when blood from a previous patient oozes out of the surface. Clearly, you don’t want to put your patients through that experience.... 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
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