PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Horror stories related to medical equipment for new construction or renovations are far too common. Hundreds of thousands, even millions of ...

Dec. 7, 2010, PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA - Where do you start when trying to minimize the risks from healthcare technology? ECRI Institute (https://www.ecri.org), an independent nonprofit that researches ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Aug. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "One of the calls we get all the time is from new risk managers who don't have much experience or training in the field," says Paul ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders of ECRI Institute and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) today announced a definitive agreement that bolsters both ...

The most hazardous health technology for 2012 is alarms, according to an ECRI Institute white paper. The white paper, “2012 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards,” judged the hazards of different health ...

The ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization has released a new version of its adverse event collection and reporting system. ECRI Institute has continued to update and improve its web-based patient ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., March 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Safe implementation of new technologies and therapies accompany classic patient safety challenges on ECRI Institute's 2017 Top 10 ...

The ECRI Institute’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety published, “Health IT Safe Practices: Toolkit for the Safe Use of Health IT for Patient Identification,” according to HealthData ...

A new ECRI Institute report identifies gaps in managing the care of acute care patients with behavioral health needs and issues recommendations to help hospitals meet those needs. The nonprofit ...

Diagnostic errors earned the No. 1 spot on ECRI Institute’s 2018 list of Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for Healthcare Organizations in 2018. ECRI Institute compiled the list based on an assessment of ...

New research from ECRI Institute, the nation's leading independent, non-profit patient safety organization, reveals that diagnostic testing and medication events are the most frequent safety risks ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Health technology safety—from safeguarding medical devices and IT systems against ransomware attacks to avoiding misconnections of ...