Healthcare Industry Events

Safely Maximizing COVID-19 Vaccine Dosing - Clarifying Syringes and More

Overview The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines were a major milestone in fighting the pandemic. Now that vaccinations are underway, there are many questions about safe administration, error preventi...

Top 10 Health Technology Hazards 2021: An In-Depth Look at Managing Medical Devices with COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorization

Overview Our February 17, 2021, webcast recording explores the number 1 topic on this year's Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list: Complexity of Managing Medical Devices with COVID-19 Emergenc...

Webinar | UV Disinfection vs. Hydrogen Peroxide in the COVID-19 Era

Overview Since the onset of the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, reducing the transmission of healthcare-associated infections has become even more important. Cleaning and disinfecting are critical ...

ECRI’s Virtual Roadshow: Emerging Technologies to Watch in 2021 and Beyond

Overview During the COVID-19 pandemic, having access to benchmark pricing and comparison data was a key component in helping our clients compare products high in demand and guiding alternate p...

Human Factors and Medication Errors

This educational program will explore human factors and the role it plays in medication safety. The speaker will first review human cognition and the cognitive tendencies and biases that influence ...

Enhance Your Medication Error Reporting Program to Improve Global Medication Safety

Most health care organizations use voluntary error and adverse event reporting programs to attempt to learn about potential safety risks in their medication-use process. The 2006 Institute of Medic...

A Look Behind the Scenes: Global Progress in Patient Safety and Prevention of Harmful Medication Errors

A lot has happened in the past 20 years to improve medication safety around the world. From adoption of various medication safety technologies and elimination of handwritten prescriptions, to impro...

Webinar | When Peer Support Is Not Enough—Referring Colleagues with Severe COVID-19-Related Stress

Overview Join Dr. Tim McDonald, Chief Patient Safety & Risk Officer, RLDatix, Dr. Andy Furman, Executive Director, Clinical Excellence, ECRI, and special guest Dr. Carla Marienfeld for an im...

Webinar | COVID-19 Post-ICU Syndrome: The Coming Wave That Needs Attention Now and What the Evidence Indicates

Overview The effects of COVID-19 on patients who required mechanical ventilation during intensive care unit stays are far from over upon their discharge from the hospital and short-term rehabili...