Falling Short of Safety: Partnering with Families to Prevent Healthcare-Related Falls

Preventing falls in a healthcare facility isn’t just a clinical metric, it’s a team sport. While we have high-tech beds and sophisticated risk assessment tools, a truly resilient systems-based appr...

Striking the Right Balance: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Fall Prevention Technology

Patient falls are a significant and costly problem in healthcare. In the United States alone, between 700,000 and 1 million patients fall in hospitals each year. These falls can lead to serious inj...

Beyond the Bundle: Why Systems Thinking is Key to Fall Prevention

In health and long-term care facilities across the country, "fall prevention bundles" have become a standard of care. These bundles—sets of evidence-based interventions applied concurrently—are de...

Preventable Acute Diseases Are Rising: What Healthcare Leaders Need to Know

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026, highlighting the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by evidence-...

Navigating the AI Diagnostic Dilemma: Why Governance and Critical Thinking Matter

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026, highlighting the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by evidence-...

Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2026

Learn how to identify and address patient safety concerns in your facilities The 2026 Top 10 reflects a shift toward broad, systemic threats that jeopardize safe, equitable, and reliable care. This...

What Will Define Patient Safety in 2026? A Look Ahead to ECRI’s Top 10 List

Every year, ECRI’s Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report helps healthcare leaders identify and prepare for the most pressing safety challenges impacting care delivery. Backed by data, expert insigh...

A Nationwide Milestone—And What It Means for Our Members

We are proud to share an important milestone for ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO: with the recent enrollment of a participating organization from Hawaii, our PSO now includ...

Leveraging ECRI’s Top 10 Health Technology Hazards Report: A Strategic Imperative for Healthcare in 2026

In today’s healthcare landscape, technology can be both a powerful enabler and a potential source of risk. As new innovations—from artificial intelligence (AI) to the expanding use of medical devic...

Rethinking Healthcare Safety: Differentiating from Other High-Risk Industries

Much of healthcare has yet to realize the benefits of applying human factors engineering (HFE), in part because HFE solutions developed for other high-risk industries have been applied without appr...

Advancing Rural Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Long-Term Sustainability

Rural healthcare providers play a vital role in keeping communities healthy, often serving as the only point of access for miles. Yet these organizations face some of the steepest challenges in the...

Improving Rural Healthcare Systems for Safer, Stronger Performance

Rural healthcare providers have always served as the backbone of their communities, often delivering essential care with limited resources and considerable financial strain. Today, those challenges...

Honoring Veterans Through Compassionate Care

Every November 11, our nation pauses to honor the courage and sacrifice of those who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Veterans Day is a time for gratitude — for the freedoms we enjoy, the resilienc...

Challenges Facing Rural Healthcare in the Current Policy Landscape

Rural healthcare in the United States has long faced structural vulnerabilities. Smaller populations, limited resources, and greater reliance on public insurance programs (e.g., Medicaid) mean that...

All Voices for Safer Care

Each October, Canadian Patient Safety Week (CPSW) brings together healthcare professionals and organizations across Canada to focus on what truly matters—making care safer for all.

Patient Safety: A Moral Imperative and Smart Business Strategy

White Paper from ECRI’s C-Suite Roundtables Despite decades of effort and the best intentions of leaders across the country, preventable patient harm remains a tragic, persistent and costly challen...

Think Like a Human Factors Engineer: Five Principles for Healthcare Leaders

The strongest safety improvements begin with better questions. Here are five principles that can reshape how you lead change. When something goes wrong in healthcare, the instinct is often to blame...

From Risk to Resilience: How PSOs Help Build High Reliability Organizations

In today’s complex healthcare environment, the push toward becoming a High Reliability Organization (HRO) is not just aspirational—it is essential. HROs operate under the principle that even in ...

Promoting Clinician Well-Being through Human Factors Engineering

Healthcare providers dedicate their lives to patient care, often working within systems that unintentionally contribute to stress, fatigue, and burnout. Human Factors Engineering (HFE), a disciplin...

Fighting the Viral Spread of Medical Misinformation: Empowering Patients through Health Literacy

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025, which highlights the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by a com...

Ensuring Safe AI Use in Healthcare: A Governance Imperative

ECRI has just released its Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns 2025, which highlights the most urgent patient safety challenges currently facing the healthcare industry. This report is informed by a com...