ECRI Calls for Stronger Safeguards for Digital Health Tools in Recommendations to Congress

ECRI, a nonprofit patient safety organization dedicated to advancing evidence-based care, submitted recommendations to Congress urging strengthened oversight and transparency requirements for digit...

Op-Ed: "Industry Voices—Hospitals are very online, but what happens when they're plunged into 'digital darkness'?"

ECRI President & CEO Marcus Schabacker authored an opinion editorial for Fierce Healthcare examining the risks of healthcare’s growing reliance on digital systems. He highlights how cyber disru...

ECRI Spins Out Healthcare Spend Management and Recall Management Solutions

Staritas established with growth investment from Accel-KKR to transform healthcare supply chain through data-driven intelligence ECRI, a global healthcare quality and safety nonprofit organization,...

AI use in diagnostic care, rural care access, and surge in preventable diseases top annual report of patient safety concerns

Report highlights how vulnerabilities in emerging technology, staffing, workforce culture, and health misinformation increase preventable harm in healthcare.

ECRI’s Sharon Rateike Earns Distinction in Healthcare Risk Management

ECRI Senior Patient Safety Advisor Sharon Rateike, MS, CPHQ, CPHRM, has been named a Fellow of the American Society for Health Care Risk Management (FASHRM), a prestigious distinction recognizing ...

Milestones marked by ECRI in advancing safe, quality healthcare across the U.S.

Now serving all 50 states and clinics that care for 32 million Americans a year ECRI advances patient safety nationwide – now in all 50 states in the U.S. – through its Patient Safety Organization...

ECRI Provides Insight into Advancing Health Equity in Clinical Guidelines

Health inequities across racial and ethnic groups are well documented but often overlooked during clinical guideline development. ECRI is helping to close that gap, with the goal of improving patie...

Advancing Evidence-Based Patient Safety: ECRI’s Contributions to Making Healthcare Safer IV

The ECRI-Penn Medicine Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) played a pivotal role in shaping the newest edition of Making Healthcare Safer, a landmark, multi-year effort to evaluate patient safety ...

Examining the Greatest Health Technology Threats of 2026

A Closer Look at ECRI’s Top Ten Health Tech Hazards – from AI Chatbots to “Digital Darkness” and beyond Providing safe and effective patient care requires identifying sources of danger or difficul...