Empowering Healthcare Teams to Prevent Fall-Related Harm and Protect Patients

Falls remain one of the most common—and preventable—causes of patient harm. With new federal reporting requirements on the horizon, preventing falls is no longer just a patient safety priority—it’s...

ECRI’s Benchmarking solution identified $580,000 in potential savings

Problem A long-standing ECRI client for over 19 years grew and expanded to a 600 licensed bed full-service community hospital between three campuses and 30 affiliate hospitals. As they continued to...

University of Chicago Medical Center Achieves $5.3M in Capital Savings

Challenge University of Chicago Medical Center (UChicago Medicine) operates in a high-spend, high-complexity environment in which every capital request must be justified, prioritized, and negotiate...

Building Safer Systems: Strengthening Medication-Use Practices at Nicklaus Children’s

The Challenge The safe use of medications is among the most complex and high-risk processes in healthcare. From prescribing through administration and monitoring, each step carries the potential fo...

Strengthening Indonesia’s Healthcare System Through Evidence-Based Procurement

Challenge Indonesia’s vast geography and diverse regional contexts present unique challenges in ensuring equitable access to healthcare services. Recognizing this, the Ministry of Health (MoH) Indo...

Children’s Nebraska’s Award-Winning Approach to Recall Management

Challenge Children’s Nebraska was faced with a critical patient safety challenge when it received an urgent alert from ECRI—four weeks ahead of the official FDA recall notification—warning of a pot...

Driving National Standards in Biomedical Engineering for Public Hospitals in Thailand

How a public facilities management organization strengthened patient safety and maintenance quality through ECRI’s Biomedical Engineering Certification (BMEC). The Challenge A leading government-af...

Health system avoids $18 million in projected capital expenditure over 10 years

Problem The term cost avoidance describes any action that avoids having to incur future costs. The following ROI story shows how reviewing the capital budgeting process for imaging services with EC...

Improving capital management and standardization with ECRI’s Predictive Replacement Planning

Problem A nonprofit academic medical center faced significant challenges with capital equipment management across its multiple hospital sites. The organization did not have a standardized, compute...