ECRI Provides Insight into Advancing Health Equity in Clinical Guidelines

Health inequities across racial and ethnic groups are well documented but often overlooked during clinical guideline development. ECRI is helping to close that gap, with the goal of improving patie...

Advancing Evidence-Based Patient Safety: ECRI’s Contributions to Making Healthcare Safer IV

The ECRI-Penn Medicine Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) played a pivotal role in shaping the newest edition of Making Healthcare Safer, a landmark, multi-year effort to evaluate patient safety ...

Examining the Greatest Health Technology Threats of 2026

A Closer Look at ECRI’s Top Ten Health Tech Hazards – from AI Chatbots to “Digital Darkness” and beyond Providing safe and effective patient care requires identifying sources of danger or difficul...

Misuse of AI chatbots tops annual list of health technology hazards

Report also sounds the alarm on insufficient planning for systems outages, substandard medical products, missed recalls of home diabetes management devices, and more  Artificial intelligence (AI) c...

Systems thinking comes to life during ECRI’s immersive demonstration at IHI Forum

Attendees gain new understanding of how to spot risks hiding in plain sight At this year’s Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum, ECRI experts delivered an innovative session that broke ...

Preventing Wrong Drug-Wrong Route Errors Involving Tranexamic Acid and Local Anesthetics

Joint Announcement from the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) Medication administration errors remain one of the most common and ser...

Op-Ed: "Cultural Transformation Can Fix The Broken Hospital Safety Reporting System"

ECRI President & CEO Dr. Marcus Schabacker authored an opinion editorial for Health Affairs calling for a cultural shift to fix the hospital safety-reporting system. He emphasizes that moving a...

Statement from ECRI President and CEO

Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD November 21, 2025  The current scientific consensus, backed by decades of epidemiologic research, is that vaccination is not associated with autism. Attempting to counter...

Patient Safety Practices to Prevent Nonventilator Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

ECRI analysis by Evidence-Based Practice Center covers oral care, dysphagia management, prevention bundles Nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NV-HAP) is among the most prevalent healthcare-...