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Despite progress, preventable harm persists—one in four patients experiences an adverse event1 during care and costs U.S. Healthcare organizations $20 billion2. At ECRI, we help healthcare organizations strengthen safety systems and apply proven insights that transform outcomes, reduce costs, and create safer environments for patients and caregivers alike.
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Data Informs. Insights Empower. ECRI Delivers.
EPC + PSO
only organization designated as both an Evidence-based Practice Center and a Patient Safety Organization
8M+
safety events comprise our PSO dataset, the largest in the industry
3,000+
clinical evidence reports & solutions representing 40% of all procedure types
How We Help
SAFETY SOLUTIONS
Build a Stronger Safety Foundation
From patient safety organization membership to hands-on consulting, ECRI's safety services help healthcare organizations identify risk, strengthen clinical practices, and build lasting safety culture. Our offerings span clinical evidence assessment, medication safety, infection prevention, just culture, human factors engineering, and enterprise safety management — all grounded in evidence and tailored to your organization's needs.
TECHNOLOGY & DEVICE SAFETY
Make Confident Technology Decisions
ECRI provides independent, vendor-neutral guidance on healthcare technology — so organizations can make confident decisions about the devices and systems they rely on. Our services include medical device evaluation, safety alerts, accident investigation, and horizon scanning for emerging technologies, giving clinical and operational leaders the intelligence they need to reduce technology-related risk.
Uniquely Qualified to Help You Succeed
Proprietary data-driven insights that transform outcomes
Safety science that uncovers root causes and contributing factors
Expertise that provides objective, evidence-based and unbiased guidance
Examples of Our Work
Protecting Patients Strengthens the Bottom Line
Evidence shows that preventing harm reduces direct and indirect costs—lowering claims, readmissions, and length of stay, while improving staff engagement and operational reliability. ECRI’s experts in safety, systems design, and human factors engineering have seen these benefits firsthand through partnerships with hospitals, health systems, and senior care services organizations across the country.
ECRI helps multi-state health system save 700 lives and$30M with sepsis management innovation
A multi-state non-profit health system faced a significant challenge with sepsis management. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires rapid diagnosis and treatment, but the health system’s Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Mortality Index had increased…
Building Safer Systems: Strengthening Medication-Use Practices at Nicklaus Children's
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 for errors that could harm patients…
ECRI Helps 11-member Short Stay Collaborative Reduce Falls by 15% and Readmission Rates by 20%
Short-stay care is an important part of what many aging-services providers have to offer. However, short-stay care is a different paradigm from long-term care, and it poses unique resident safety, liability, strategic, and financial risks…
Who We Are
ECRI is a nonprofit leader in healthcare safety science. We partner with health systems, hospitals, and senior care organizations to replace patchwork safety approaches with proven, integrated solutions — informed by decades of data-driven expertise and spanning clinical evidence, risk management, technology assessment, and hands-on consulting. The result: safer patients, more resilient organizations, and clinical teams equipped to do their best work.
"ECRI’s PSO has been instrumental in helping us move toward high reliability by offering aggregated safety intelligence that helps us benchmark and anticipate risks and delivering expert guidance through patient safety advisors who support our implementation efforts."
- ECRI and ISMP PSO Client Hospital
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