ISMP Launches Perioperative Medication Safety Self Assessment

New Tool Will Help Surgery Sites Evaluate, Document Compliance, Compare Scores HORSHAM, PA—Medication errors happen in all phases of perioperative care, often due to the complexity and fast-paced ...

National Leaders Collaborate on COVID-19 Lessons for Healthcare Value Analysis Teams

ECRI and the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) issue new risk mitigation strategies PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—ECRI, the nation’s leading independent patient safety organiz...

Racial, Ethnic Health Disparities Top Patient Safety Concern for 2021

ECRI’s annual report dominated by COVID-19 PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—As the nation marks one year since the start of COVID-19 restrictions, ECRI names Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare as ...

ECRI and oneSOURCE Announce Collaboration to Improve Medical Device Alerts Management

New integration enables supply chain professionals, infection preventionists, and biomedical engineers to respond more quickly to device safety issues in an era of COVID-19 PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—EC...

ECRI and Health IT Safety Experts Team up to Tackle Alert Fatigue

ECRI’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety issues safe practice recommendations to reduce overrides, missed notifications, interruptions from Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) PLYMOUTH...

Health IT Safety Leaders Address Changes Needed to Improve Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care

ECRI’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety and the Electronic Health Record Association release five safe practice recommendations PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA and CHICAGO, IL—New research by a coll...

ISMP Identifies Errors with Extended-Release Opioids, Infusion Pumps as among Top Medication Safety Issues in 2020

Top 10 List Published in ISMP Newsletter Horsham, PA—ISMP has released a list of the top 10 most persistent medication errors and hazards covered in its acute care newsletter in 2020. The list foc...

Safety Leader Lists Provider Management of Medical Devices with COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorization a Top Hazard for 2021

ECRI issues Top 10 Health Technology Hazards to guide healthcare leaders on safety priorities for 2021 PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—Hundreds of medical products have been authorized for temporary use in t...

ISMP Alerts Healthcare Practitioners about Errors with New COVID-19 Vaccines

Newsletter Article Provides Targeted Prevention Recommendations HORSHAM, PA—Since mid-December 2020, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has received numerous voluntary reports of e...