Healthcare Industry Events
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...
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...