Strengthening Indonesia’s Healthcare System Through Evidence-Based Procurement

Challenge Indonesia’s vast geography and diverse regional contexts present unique challenges in ensuring equitable access to healthcare services. Recognizing this, the Ministry of Health (MoH) Indo...

Children’s Nebraska’s Award-Winning Approach to Recall Management

Challenge Children’s Nebraska was faced with a critical patient safety challenge when it received an urgent alert from ECRI—four weeks ahead of the official FDA recall notification—warning of a pot...

Driving National Standards in Biomedical Engineering for Public Hospitals in Thailand

How a public facilities management organization strengthened patient safety and maintenance quality through ECRI’s Biomedical Engineering Certification (BMEC). The Challenge A leading government-af...

Health system avoids $18 million in projected capital expenditure over 10 years

Problem The term cost avoidance describes any action that avoids having to incur future costs. The following ROI story shows how reviewing the capital budgeting process for imaging services with EC...

Improving capital management and standardization with ECRI’s Predictive Replacement Planning

Problem A nonprofit academic medical center faced significant challenges with capital equipment management across its multiple hospital sites. The organization did not have a standardized, compute...

ECRI helps multi-state health system save 700 lives and $30M with sepsis management innovation

Problem A multi-state non-profit health system faced a significant challenge with sepsis management. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires rapid diagnosis and treatment, but the heal...

Springfield Clinic Saves $3M+ in Capital and Supply Spend

Challenge In its 85-year-history, Springfield Clinic has grown exponentially into a community organization with more than 650 physicians and advanced practitioners in more than 80 specialties and s...

New Surgery Center Reduces Capital Expenditures by $270,000

Challenge As a new surgery center, Valley Ambulatory Surgery Center, had a complex challenge with meeting tight timelines and budgetary constraints. To become operational, they needed to purchase a...

ECRI Helps 11-member Short Stay Collaborative Reduce Falls by 15% and Readmission Rates by 28%

Problem Short-stay care is an important part of what many aging-services providers have to offer. However, short-stay care is a different paradigm from long-term care, and it poses unique resident ...