Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2026 Executive Brief

ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2026 report focuses on health technology risks that warrant the greatest level of attention and describes actionable approaches that providers can use to...

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025 Executive Brief

Learn How to Identify and Address Health Technology Hazards in Your Facilities ECRI's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025 identifies the potential sources of danger we believe warrant the gre...

ECRI's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards: A Vital Resource for Healthcare Providers

We're excited to announce that ECRI's highly anticipated annual report—Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2025—is on the way and is launching early! This report is crucial for healthcare organiza...

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024 Executive Brief

Learn how to identify and address health technology hazards in your facilities ECRI's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2024 list identifies the potential sources of danger we believe warrant th...

Advancing Patient Safety Through Better Designs or Processes: Top 10 Health Tech Hazards Part 2

This is part two of a two-part blog. A nurse's aide, when transferring a mother in labor to the delivery room, turned off the infusion pump delivering Pitocin, a drug administered intravenously to...

Top 10 Health Tech Hazards for 2023: A Tool to Reduce Preventable Harm

This is part one of a two-part blog. Reducing preventable harm is at the core of ECRI’s mission, and has been for more than 50 years. Since the publication of the first issue of the Health Devices...

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 Executive Brief

Learn how to identify and address health technology hazards in your facilities ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2023 list identifies the potential sources of danger we believe warran...

We See You: ECRI Recognizes Exceptional Health Technology Management

A popular folk musician once said, “You just get the vibe of your surroundings, and it rubs off on you.” Indeed, surroundings are very important; and when a pleasing aesthetic melds with functional...

ECRI's Health Technology Excellence Award: Recognizing Exceptional Health Technology Management

A popular folk musician once said, “You just get the vibe of your surroundings, and it rubs off on you.” Indeed, surroundings are very important; and when a pleasing aesthetic melds with functional...

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2022 Executive Brief

Learn how to identify and address health technology hazards in your facilities ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list, now in its 15th year, identifies the potential sources of danger we beli...

2021 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards Executive Brief

Learn how to identify and address health technology hazards in your facilities ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list, now in its 14th year, identifies the potential sources of danger we beli...

Technology’s Role in Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care to Improve Patient Care

Integrated behavioral health and primary care (integration) has been identified as a promising approach to enhancing patient care delivery, safety and quality. Technology tools, including electron...

Patient Safety and Digital Health Tools: What Are Providers and Developers Focusing On at the End of 2020?

Patient safety remains, as it should, a priority for developers of and providers who use electronic health records (EHRs) and other health IT. For example, ECRI’s Partnership for Health IT Safety h...

How to Use Technology to Facilitate the Integration of Behavioral Health with Primary Care

An Inside Look into the Current Partnership Workgroup COVID-19 anxiety is increasingly part of our everyday lives. The resulting disruptions in daily routines can create or worsen anxiety and rais...

Using Technology to Facilitate the Integration of Behavioral Health with Primary Care: The Importance of Data Sharing

A Continuing Inside Look into the Partnership Workgroup on Optimizing Health IT for Safe Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care "Integration" of behavioral health and primary care is a p...

Reducing the Noise from Alerts, Alarms, and Notifications

When technology entered healthcare, so too did alerts. Alerts acted as attention grabbers, reminders, notices of changes in a patient's condition, and warnings about malfunctions or improper funct...

2020 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards Executive Brief

Learn how to identify and address health technology hazards in your facilities This 13th edition of our Top 10 list features many first-time topics, with an emphasis on newly developing hazards and...

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2019

What technology hazards are lurking in your hospital? Hackers exploiting remote access vulnerabilities, mattresses remaining contaminated after cleaning, and retained surgical sponges—these are jus...