Welcome to Smart Healthcare Safety from ECRI Institute, where we discuss real healthcare safety issues. The goal of this podcast is to bring ECRI's guidance to life. The recommendations are meant to help you get from being aware of an issue to assuring that your patients are safe. Hear from our experts and guests on topics that affect your delivery of safe patient care.
This episode is part of a series regarding the ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization's (PSO) annual Deep Dive report.The 2021 Deep Dive report...
Today, more than a year into the COVID pandemic, we're talking about the process of disaster recovery. While much has been written over the past year ...
With access to COVID-19 vaccines now more widespread throughout the United States, but still only available under emergency use authorization, employe...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services formally designated ECRI as a Patient Safety Organization (PSO) in 2008. Since then, our PSO has stud...
Today, we're talking about ECRI's 2021 list of the Top 10 Health Technology Hazards. This report is intended to identify potential sources of danger t...
In this episode around COVID-19 vaccines, we’ll discuss topics like why two shots are needed with the currently authorized vaccines, concerns about al...
Nursing homes have recently been assessed millions of dollars in citations for failing to have effective respiratory protection programs in place to p...
Nursing homes have recently been assessed millions of dollars in citations for failing to have effective respiratory protection programs in place to p...
This podcast is part of ECRI's ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In today’s episode, Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, President and CEO of ECRI, d...
This is a special episode produced in conjunction with our colleagues in ECRI's Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety. The Partnership is working w...