USA Today Features ECRI in Special Edition on Patient Safety

ECRI was featured in a special edition of USA Today, sharing insights on how healthcare leaders can reduce preventable harm and build safer, more reliable systems of care.

• ECRI President and CEO Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, authored an article on why patient safety outcomes still vary widely across healthcare settings—and how evidence-based strategies, safer system design, human factors engineering, predictive analytics, and Just Culture principles can help organizations better protect patients.
  Read the article: Healthcare Safety Is Improving but Preventable Medical Errors Still Harm Patients

• Dheerendra Kommala, MD, ECRI Chief Medical Officer, joined Della M. Lin, MD, MS, FASA, board member and secretary of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, in a Q&A to discuss the future of safer care and how healthcare organizations can embrace systems-based approaches that anticipate risk before harm occurs.
  Read the Q&A: Designing Safer Care: How Data, Culture, and Relationships Drive Better Patient Outcomes

The USA Today special edition includes perspectives from other leading healthcare organizations, including the American Hospital Association (AHA), American Medical Association (AMA), Leapfrog Group, and National Academy of Medicine (NAM).