Healthcare Industry Events
UV Disinfection vs. Hydrogen Peroxide in the COVID-19 Era
Overview Since the onset of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, reducing the transmission of healthcare-associated infections has become even more important. Cleaning and disinfecting are critical ...
ECRI’s Virtual Roadshow: Emerging Technologies to Watch in 2021 and Beyond
Overview During the COVID-19 pandemic, having access to benchmark pricing and comparison data was a key component in helping our clients compare products high in demand and guiding alternate p...
Human Factors and Medication Errors
This educational program will explore human factors and the role it plays in medication safety. The speaker will first review human cognition and the cognitive tendencies and biases that influence ...
Enhance Your Medication Error Reporting Program to Improve Global Medication Safety
Most health care organizations use voluntary error and adverse event reporting programs to attempt to learn about potential safety risks in their medication-use process. The 2006 Institute of Medic...
A lot has happened in the past 20 years to improve medication safety around the world. From adoption of various medication safety technologies and elimination of handwritten prescriptions, to impro...
When Peer Support Is Not Enough—Referring Colleagues with Severe COVID-19-Related Stress
Overview Join Dr. Tim McDonald, Chief Patient Safety & Risk Officer, RLDatix, Dr. Andy Furman, Executive Director, Clinical Excellence, ECRI, and special guest Dr. Carla Marienfeld for an im...
COVID-19 Post-ICU Syndrome: The Coming Wave That Needs Attention Now and What the Evidence Indicates
Overview The effects of COVID-19 on patients who required mechanical ventilation during intensive care unit stays are far from over upon their discharge from the hospital and short-term rehabili...
Prevention of Drug Diversion in the Healthcare Setting
Opioid-related overdoses and deaths are steadily rising. To combat this epidemic, health care professionals must do all that they can to stop the diversion of opioids and other controlled substance...
Resiliency and the Workforce—Keys to Survival
Overview In the wake of COVID-19, resilience is top of mind for healthcare organizations around the world, but what is resilience? Are there ways to cultivate resilience? How can healthcare work...