Announcement
A Sharper Focus on What Matters Most: Reducing Preventable Harm
Healthcare is too important, and preventable harm too costly, to accept the status quo. That conviction has driven ECRI for more than five decades, and it is driving a strategic decision that will allow us to do more of what we do best.
ECRI has spun off its Spend Management and Recall Management solutions into a new, independent company: Staritas, powered by a growth investment from Accel-KKR. This move is not a departure, it is a commitment. A commitment to deepening our focus on the work only ECRI can do: advancing patient safety, clinical evidence, and system-level change across healthcare.
Why This, Why Now
Healthcare Needs a Different Kind of Urgency
The problems facing healthcare today — preventable harm, care variation, clinician burnout, rising costs — are not new. But they are escalating. And they demand organizations with the courage and clarity to tackle them head-on, without distraction and without compromise.
For ECRI, that means sharpening our focus. Our independent, nonprofit mission is to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally. By spinning off Spend and Recall solutions as Staritas, we are ensuring that both businesses can now pursue their fullest potential, unencumbered and fully resourced.
"This transformation is designed specifically to meet customer needs in patient safety, supply chain, and clinical excellence. Customers need data and expertise to break cycles of preventable harm and inefficiency. Accelerating core ECRI offering in safety and clinical evidence will be the catalyst for systemic change in healthcare."
— Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, President & CEO, ECRI
Introducing Staritas
Supply Chain Solutions, Built to Lead
For five decades, ECRI’s award-winning Spend Management solutions have helped healthcare supply chain leaders navigate disruptions with resilience, save millions of dollars, and benchmark purchasing decisions using the industry’s most comprehensive datasets.
Now, as Staritas, those solutions will be supercharged. Transformative new capabilities are in development, powered by significant new investments in data, technology, and user experience. Staritas will strengthen supply chain resiliency and deliver greater value than ever before for healthcare organizations navigating an increasingly complex landscape.
ECRI maintains a stake in Staritas, ensuring continuity, shared purpose, and alignment on what best serves healthcare.
For existing Spend Management and Recall Management customers: your experience remains seamless. The dedicated teams you rely on remain in place. Your platforms, tools, and support are unchanged. You’re gaining a more focused partner solely dedicate to delivering value and innovation into the healthcare supply chain arena.
ECRI Going Forward
Investing in the Infrastructure of Safe Healthcare
What does a healthcare system that reliably and sustainably reduces preventable harm look like? That question is at the center of everything ECRI builds, researches, and recommends.
With this strategic shift, ECRI is investing, at an unprecedented level, in the expert teams, proprietary data assets, and advanced capabilities that allow healthcare organizations to build safety into their culture, their operations, and their systems. Not as a one-time initiative, but as a permanent, self-reinforcing foundation.
Effective, reliable, and resilient healthcare systems do not happen by accident. They are designed. ECRI brings the science, the independence, and the deep expertise to make that design a reality.
ECRI Capabilities
Full Breadth of ECRI's Safety and Clinical Expertise
ECRI’s services and solutions are now focused exclusively on creating resilient and safe healthcare systems and assessing those technologies used in those systems – backed by new investment and commitment to effect transformative change.
ECRI partners with healthcare organizations to apply advanced safety science and systems thinking — building resilient, sustainable safety infrastructures. Our experts become your partners, collaborating on culture, human factors engineering, enterprise safety management, medication safety, device safety and infection prevention to drive measurable reductions in harm.
The only organization providing truly independent, hands-on testing and rigorous evaluation of medical devices, informing real-world technology decisions across all care settings, with testing labs in the U.S. and Asia.
As an AHRQ-designated Evidence-based Practice Center, ECRI delivers unbiased assessments of the safety and effectiveness of healthcare interventions and treatments, informing clinical quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.
Technical and clinical investigators deploy to facilities nationwide to identify root causes of adverse events and build corrective strategies that prevent recurrence.
ECRI’s risk management memberships help health systems, aging services facilities, and ambulatory care settings protect patients and staff with research and insights from industry-leading safety, risk, and quality experts.
Continuously researching emerging technologies, treatments, and threats across the healthcare continuum, covering dementia, cancer, cardiovascular disease, mental health, and rare diseases.
Multidisciplinary expert teams and unmatched datasets identify the latest health technology hazards and patient safety threats, paired with evidence-based strategies to address them.
One of the nation’s largest PSOs, analyzing more than 8 million safety events and over 7,000 root cause analyses submitted by acute, non-acute, ambulatory, and aging care providers.
The gold standard in medication safety, with extensive experience determining system-based causes of errors and driving change in medical practice and pharmaceutical products.
Acquired by ECRI for its deep expertise in system design and workplace culture transformation in high-risk industries, grounded in the reality that culture shapes behavior, and behavior drives outcomes.
Our Commitment
The Work Ahead Is Our Most Important Work Yet
Preventable harm in healthcare is not inevitable. It is a system problem, and system problems have system solutions. ECRI exists to find them, prove them, and help healthcare organizations put them into practice at scale.
This strategic evolution gives us the focus and the resources to pursue that mission with greater intensity than ever before. For our customers, our partners, and most importantly — for patients — the best of ECRI is ahead of us.
Only ECRI brings independent, evidence-based expertise in advanced safety science and systems thinking to help healthcare organizations measurably reduce harm and elevate well-being — for patients, staff, and communities
Questions about this announcement?
Read the news release for more information. Contact your ECRI account representative or Yvonne Rhodes, ECRI's Director of Strategic Communications & Operations at YRhodes@ecri.org.