Healthcare Industry Events
Leveraging IV Robotics to Optimize Sterile Compounding Practices to Improve Safety
Learn about the role of IV robotics in the advancement of safety in sterile compounding operations and the steps needed to address perceived barriers for its implementation and use.
Overview Advancing health equity and eliminating health disparities have been and continue to be critical factors facing healthcare today. Healthy People 2020 defines health equity as "the atta...
Reducing Scalpel Injuries —An Evaluation of Blade Removers
Overview An estimated 8% of injuries to healthcare workers in the hospital setting and 17% of worker injuries in the surgical setting are associated with scalpels. Scalpel-related injuries occu...
Challenges Transitioning Newly Trained Clinicians from Education into Practice
Overview The number one topic in this year's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent workforce shortages: challenges transitioning newly tr...
Transitioning to Ready-to-Administer IV Medications: Can it be Both Safe and Affordable?
Intravenous (IV) therapy is considered an essential component of healthcare delivery, with over 90% of hospitalized patients receiving some form of infusion therapy. Errors involving IV medications...
Many organizations have stated that to avoid the unnecessary, error-prone complexity of IV push medication preparation and administration, and to avoid the risk of contamination and personnel expos...
Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024
Overview ECRI's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024 list will identify the potential sources of danger we believe warrant the greatest attention this year and offer practical recommendati...
New Evaluation: Advanced Wound Care Dressings
Overview While treating and preventing patient wounds is an essential part of patient care, it is also a difficult one. If a patient has complex wounds that cannot heal with typical treatment, ...
Enhancing Falls Prevention: Collaborative Informational Session
Overview Falls are relatively common in healthcare, accounting for 250,000 injuries and up to 11,000 deaths each year in the United States alone. Despite ongoing safety efforts, the rate of fal...