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Your Smart Phone Will See You Now
The science of forecasting medical technology is lousy. We hear so many pundits predicting the next revolutionary medical technology advancement that it is literally impossible to keep track of them...
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The Monopoly Board of Clinical Guidelines
When the closure of the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) hit the news, the ECRI team who worked on the contract felt as though we had lost a dear friend. After all, we had a 20-year history with...
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Avoiding the Blame Game in Preventing Medical Errors
In late 2017, a catastrophic medication error led to a patient death at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. While waiting for a PET scan, an elderly woman was incorrectly administered vecuronium, a...
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4 Ways to Prevent Harm from Surgical Staplers
If you’ve been following medical device safety issues this year, there’s a good chance you’ve seen the headlines about patient injuries and deaths related to internal surgical staplers. The devices...
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Three Costly Pitfalls of Purchased Services Contracts
Purchased services are seen as the next great savings frontier in healthcare—and with good reason. Spend on purchased services accounts for approximately 30 to 35 percent of a hospital’s non-labor...
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Reining in Unbridled Uses of Robotic-Assisted Surgery
A 2019 JAMA viewpoint article, Is It Time for Safeguards in the Adoption of Robotic Surgery?, explores the risks associated with the increasing, uncontrolled, and indiscriminate use of...
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ECRI Data Help Reignite Support for Patient Identifier in Congress
After heart disease and cancer, medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States and include misdiagnoses, incorrect anesthesia, delayed treatment, and patient...
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Spread Best Practices, Not Infection: Our Commitment to CDC’s Challenge on...
Anti-microbial resistance (AMR) presents serious global concerns, now and in the future. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists AMR as a top ten threat to public health. Last year, there were...
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Safer Opioid Prescribing through Health IT
Editorial Note: This blog was also co-authored by Shari Medina, MD, of Harris Healthcare, chair of EHRA’s Patient Safety Work Group who led the Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety’s workgroup on...
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Outsmarting an Impossible Medical Equipment Budget
When Washington Adventist Hospital of Maryland hired ECRI Institute to provide equipment planning services for their new 170-bed hospital, they were in a financial bind. Their Certificate of Need (CON)...
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Diagnosing Communication Gaps in Diagnostic Test Reporting
In the United States, there are 30 times more outpatient visits as hospital discharges. As a result of the high volumes and complexities inherent to ambulatory settings, one in twenty patients can...
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The EtO Sterilization Dilemma
Ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilization has been in the news a lot lately, and healthcare has much at stake. According to officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), approximately 56% of all...
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Rethinking Incident Investigations in Aging Services
Decisions made and actions taken in the first minutes and hours after an incident occurs in an aging services organization set the stage for everything else that follows. For instance, consider this...
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Four Ways to Say No to Adverse Drug Reactions
The seeds of an adverse drug interaction can be planted at any point in the care process, by any of the individuals involved. For instance, take a look at these common scenarios:A clinician,...
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Healthcare Acquired Infection Risks from Worker Fingernails and Polish
Infection prevention is of vital concern right now, and reducing disease transmission between healthcare workers (HCWs) and patients is critical for patient safety. One source of danger to patient...
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How to Use Technology to Facilitate the Integration of Behavioral Health with...
An Inside Look into the Current Partnership WorkgroupCOVID-19 anxiety is increasingly part of our everyday lives. The resulting disruptions in daily routines can create or worsen anxiety and raise...
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Reducing the Noise from Alerts, Alarms, and Notifications
When technology entered healthcare, so too did alerts. Alerts acted as attention grabbers, reminders, notices of changes in a patient's condition, and warnings about malfunctions or improper...
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Taking a Stand against Racial Injustice
Tightly woven into ECRI’s DNA is the imperative to speak truth to power, based on facts and evidence. The facts are that for centuries in the United States, racism has caused historic and acute trauma...
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Using Technology to Facilitate the Integration of Behavioral Health with...
A Continuing Inside Look into the PartnershipWorkgroup on Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care"Integration" of behavioral health and primary care is a...
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ECRI’s COO in Modern Healthcare: Use Supply Chain to Achieve Care Goals and...
It’s a critical time for healthcare leaders as they face new challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic and continued declining reimbursements. In a recent Modern Healthcare article, ECRI’s Executive VP and...
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