Patient Safety Advisory Services
Complexity in healthcare continues to grow. Challenges persist.
Let's think differently.
Human-Centered Healthcare Guided by ECRI
Healthcare is inherently human. Practicing healthcare requires providers to work with increasingly complex tools and technologies across multiple environments, all while collaborating with each other, patients and caregivers. ECRI's Total Systems Approach to Safety is a new, comprehensive, programmatic approach that aligns components of clinical and safety operations to improve patient care. By redesigning elements of the clinical and safety system, providers are supported to deliver care in a more highly reliable and resilient way.
How We're Different
Our transformative methodology examines all elements of the system to understand where vulnerabilities exist. And most importantly, puts people at the center of everything we do. Together, we Assess, Innovate, and Evaluate, at any scale, from units to entire systems of care, to create human-centered, aligned systems that minimize risk and enhance reliability.
Create a culture that encourages learning, improvement, and equity
ECRI is excited to welcome The Just Culture Company to its portfolio of solutions. The Just Culture Company is a leader in fostering fair and accountable organizational cultures. Their proprietary algorithm and proven framework help organizations prevent harm by shifting from reactive responses to proactive system design. As the CMS Patient Safety Structural Measure
emphasizes the importance of just culture, now is the time to transform your organization with ECRI’s trusted guidance and resources.
Anchored in safety science, human factors engineering and health equity, our proactive systems approach integrates safety-related processes like infection prevention, medication management, device and technology safety.
Clinically-Informed Human Factors Engineering
ECRI is the only non-profit, independent safety organization with formally trained Human Factors Systems Engineers with over 125 years of combined experience across military, transportation, aerospace, academic, and healthcare domains.
Leveraging this vast hands-on expertise, our team applies proven research-backed methods to improve safety at every point in your health system, creating the foundation required to achieve Total Systems Safety.
Infection Prevention & Control
Our multidisciplinary team of certified (CIC) infection preventionists and epidemiologists harness their decades of invaluable frontline experience and the industry's most current, evidence-based practices to help organizations like yours, reduce healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), address gaps related to the sterilization of medical equipment, improve infection prevention and control plans, and mitigate and control outbreaks.
Medication Safety
As the first non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of safe medication practices, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has been a global leader in medication safety for over 30 years.
With ISMP’s extensive experience in the system-based causes of medication errors, our team is uniquely positioned to work confidentially and objectively to help you maximize success with current medication safety initiatives.
Device Safety
As the sole independent medical device testing laboratory globally, our team performs hands-on rigorous testing and evaluation of devices to deliver trustworthy results and insights into the safest, and most cost-effective medical devices on the market. No other private sector organization in North America assumes this responsibility or provides this level of information and assurance.
How We Help
It's not always easy to drive change when everything is in flux. That’s why we tailor our solution to your specific challenges, needs and constraints.
As clinicians, we know what it's like.
Our lived experience across disciplines and care settings helps us connect with the complexities and nuances present in today's healthcare system. Whether starting from scratch or building upon an existing foundation, we'll be there every step of the way, continuously improving, so your organization can better adapt to the unique needs of your world.
Implement evidence and science-based education and training
Experience The Just Culture Company educational programs firsthand. From December 9, 2024, to February 8, 2025, we are offering a 20% discount to our valued clients and any healthcare provider who is looking to implement a just culture within their organization. Please enter the discount code ECRI+TJCC20 at checkout. This discount applies to the following training programs.
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Empowering Healthcare Leaders
“ECRI’s work has brought a completely new level of risk management and improved outcomes at our member organizations and their work has quite significantly advanced the profession of aging services risk management.”
- Philip B. Leaman, President/CEO, Resource Partners, Peace Church Risk Retention Group
Costly MRI Malfunctions Eliminated
Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2024
The Evidence on Race-Based Clinical Algorithms
More Ways We Help
Patient Safety Organization
Build a culture of safety with patient safety expertise, guidance, data, and broad subject matter knowledge.
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Clinical Evidence Assessment
Enhance insights and decisions on new, emerging, and existing technologies with independent evidence analysis.
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Recall Management
Ensure the removal of harmful products before they reach the patient with automated recall management software.
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Healthcare Incident Investigation and Technology Consulting
Conduct scientific clinical incident investigations with independent technology experts.
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Infection Prevention and Control Consulting Services
Prevent healthcare-associated infection risks through collaboration, analysis, and total systems improvement.
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