Insights & News in Healthcare Safety

Promoting Clinician Well-Being through Human Factors Engineering

Healthcare providers dedicate their lives to patient care, often working within systems that unintentionally contribute to stress, fatigue, and burnout. Human Factors Engineering (HFE), a disciplin...

ECRI Examines Reliability of Pulse Oximeters on People with Varying Skin Pigmentation

Darker skin pigmentation can adversely influence pulse oximeter readings, leading to missed or delayed diagnoses and treatment. This health disparity has caused the U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...

Clinicians Are Leveraging This Time-Saving Research when Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach to clinical care that combines the best available evidence with a clinician’s expertise and patient preferences to make informed decisions. How...

Choosing the Right Orthopedic Surgical Tools for High-Performing, Cost-Effective Patient Care

Optimize orthopedic implant selection with benchmarking data. Improve patient outcomes, control costs, and enhance efficiency with data-driven decision-making.

Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines Begin with Medical Research Librarians

Guideline developers and medical specialty societies encounter significant challenges when performing systematic literature searches, which are crucial for developing trustworthy clinical practice ...

Fighting the Viral Spread of Medical Misinformation: Empowering Patients through Health Literacy

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025, which highlights the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by a com...

Combating Substandard and Counterfeit Medical Devices

Healthcare organizations are increasingly vulnerable to the dangers of substandard and counterfeit medical devices and supplies. Ranked as the fourth-highest hazard in ECRI's Top 10 Healthcare Tech...

Ensuring Safe AI Use in Healthcare: A Governance Imperative

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025, which highlights the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by a com...

ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025: A Critical Tool for Healthcare Providers across the Continuum

Patient safety is a cornerstone of healthcare, and each year, new challenges arise that require proactive action from healthcare organizations. ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns identifies crit...