Healthcare Industry Events
Cancer Genetic Testing: Promises, Challenges, and the Need for Evidence
Overview Genetic testing is ubiquitous and increasingly available in healthcare. Genetic tests analyze genes, proteins, or combinations of DNA, RNA, and proteins, and are intended to provide pa...
Telehealth: Utilizing Adverse Event Data to Proactively Identify and Mitigate Risks
Overview Telehealth has been a steadily growing part of healthcare for years. Recently, during the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth grew at an exponential rate. Per the Centers for Disease Control...
The Value of Patient Safety Organization (PSO) Participation
Overview The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act) authorized the creation of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) to improve healthcare quality and safety by w...
The perioperative setting is one of the most medication-intensive areas in healthcare, often with more medications administered per patient than in any other patient care setting. The limited use o...
Enhancing Safety in Perioperative Care: Collaborative Informational Session
Overview Patients’ surgery needs drives a large part of healthcare utilization. But when things go wrong during surgery, patients can experience serious harm. Despite ongoing safety efforts, su...
Telehealth: Key evidence, risks, and potential for disruption
Overview Telehealth makes it easier to provide safe and accessible care to patients. Its use has grown rapidly during the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth became a top priorit...
Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2021
Overview Each year, ECRI creates the list of the Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns to support healthcare organizations as they actively seek to identify and responds to safety threats. Many of the...
Safely Maximizing COVID-19 Vaccine Dosing - Clarifying Syringes and More
Overview The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines were a major milestone in fighting the pandemic. Now that vaccinations are underway, there are many questions about safe administration, error preventi...
Overview Our February 17, 2021, webcast recording explores the number 1 topic on this year's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list: Complexity of Managing Medical Devices with COVID-19 Emergenc...