HANYS Marketplace partners with ECRI to improve patient safety and reduce preventable harm in healthcare
HANYS Marketplace® has partnered with ECRI, a nonprofit organization advancing the safety and quality of healthcare, to provide New York’s hospitals and health systems with evidence-based solutions that protect patients, prevent harm, and improve efficiency in medical care.
ECRI partners with healthcare organizations to apply advanced safety science and systems thinking, building resilient, sustainable safety infrastructures. ECRI experts serve as hands-on partners that improve enterprise safety management and target specific challenges in care delivery such as medication safety, infection prevention, and workflow inefficiencies that waste time and resources. ECRI’s safety strategies are informed by the more than 8 million safety incidents in its database – the largest of its kind in the industry – which ECRI analyzes to identify common hazards and strategies to proactively prevent harm. As healthcare leaders face growing complexity, from workforce shortages and shrinking budgets to rapidly evolving technologies, ECRI provides independent guidance, data-driven insights, and practical recommendations to provide safer, more efficient care.
Areas of focus include:
- safety consulting and advisory services
- infection prevention and control
- medical device evaluations
- safe medication practices
- clinical evidence assessments
- risk management programs
- healthcare accident investigations
- workplace culture transformation that boosts safety reporting and learning
- education and training for healthcare professionals
“Healthcare organizations today need partners that can help them improve outcomes while navigating increasingly complex operational and clinical challenges,” said HANYS Marketplace Executive Vice President Al Campanella. “ECRI is the most trusted voice in healthcare, and that reputation for independence and evidence-based guidance makes it a valuable addition to the HANYS Marketplace family of partners. We are proud to offer our members access to ECRI’s extensive expertise and solutions.”
“ECRI is wholly focused on patient safety and care quality,” said Dheerendra Kommala, MD, ECRI’s Chief Medical Officer. “We have successfully partnered with numerous hospitals and healthcare providers across the U.S. to reduce safety incidents and improve efficiency in their operations. We serve all 50 states and clinics that care for more than 32 million Americans a year. Now we’re excited to partner with HANYS Marketplace to bring ECRI’s capabilities directly to healthcare organizations across New York.”
Contact Yvonne Rhodes, Director of Strategic Communications & Operations, YRhodes@ECRI.org
About ECRI:
ECRI is an independent, nonprofit organization that improves the safety and quality of healthcare. ECRI is the only organization designated as both an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization (PSO) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ECRI conducts independent medical device evaluations and health technology assessments to highlight interventions and technologies that are truly evidence-based. ECRI acquired The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) to address one of the most prolific causes of preventable harm in healthcare, medication errors; then acquired The Just Culture Company to transform healthcare workplace cultures – thus creating one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.
About HANYS Marketplace:
HANYS Marketplace, a for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Association of New York State, connects healthcare organizations across the care continuum with trusted best-in-class products and services to help achieve efficiencies, cost savings and care delivery transformation. Uniquely tuned in to the issues that keep healthcare leaders up at night, HANYS Marketplace is constantly evolving to offer best-in-class solutions that meet the most pressing needs of healthcare providers today.