Insights & News in Healthcare Safety

Falling Short of Safety: Partnering with Families to Prevent Healthcare-Related Falls

Preventing falls in a healthcare facility isn’t just a clinical metric, it’s a team sport. While we have high-tech beds and sophisticated risk assessment tools, a truly resilient systems-based appr...

Striking the Right Balance: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Fall Prevention Technology

Patient falls are a significant and costly problem in healthcare. In the United States alone, between 700,000 and 1 million patients fall in hospitals each year. These falls can lead to serious inj...

Beyond the Bundle: Why Systems Thinking is Key to Fall Prevention

In health and long-term care facilities across the country, "fall prevention bundles" have become a standard of care. These bundles—sets of evidence-based interventions applied concurrently—are de...

Preventable Acute Diseases Are Rising: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026, highlighting the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by evidence-...

Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma: Why Governance and Critical Thinking Matter

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026, highlighting the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by evidence-...

What Will Define Patient Safety in 2026? A Look Ahead to ECRI’s Top 10 List

Every year, ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report helps healthcare leaders identify and prepare for the most pressing safety challenges impacting care delivery. Backed by data, expert insigh...

A Nationwide Milestone—And What It Means for Our Members

We are proud to share an important milestone for ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO: with the recent enrollment of a participating organization from Hawaii, our PSO now includ...

Missed Recall Warnings: A Growing Safety Risk for Home Diabetes Device Users

Advances in home diabetes management technologies have transformed how millions of people manage their condition outside of traditional clinical settings. Devices such as insulin pumps, continuous ...

When Healthcare Systems Go Dark: Why Digital Outage Preparedness Is a Patient Safety Imperative

Healthcare delivery today depends heavily on digital systems. Electronic health records (EHRs), networked medical devices, clinical decision support tools, and communication platforms are deeply em...