Trusted data-driven insights for the highest standards of healthcare quality and excellence.
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Trusted data, smarter decisions to advance Canadian healthcare.
For over 25 years ECRI Canada has been helping Canadian healthcare organizations improve safety, reduce costs, and enhance outcomes with trusted insights and expert guidance. Leveraging our expert insights and one of the world's only independent medical device testing labs, we provide evidence-based solutions and regulatory support to empower Canadian healthcare leaders in driving continuous improvement and making data-driven decisions.
Government
Elevating healthcare safety, equity, and affordability.
ECRI Canada partners with federal and provincial Ministries of Health, agencies including Health Canada and the Canadian Drug Agency (CDA), as well as healthcare systems, to drive patient safety, quality, and operational excellence.
- Enhanced patient safety and improved quality and excellence.
- Evidence-based data to support best practice implementation.
- Informed decision-making for better health system and patient outcomes.
Acute Care
Safe, evidence-based care — simplified.
Delivering expert support and trusted resources to improve patient safety.
- Reduce preventable harm.
- Make better informed decisions with independent device evaluations.
- Utilize educational resources, including virtual courses and certifications, to equip teams for critical challenges and ensure quality care.
Clinical Evidence Assessments
Gain actionable insights with trusted clinical evidence.
We offer the gold standard in clinical evidence assessments and provide actionable insights through rigorous analysis using the GRADE methodology. We streamline research, delivering clear summaries of clinical literature, trials, and safety data. With our evidence-based approach, you can develop policy, refine clinical strategies, enhance reimbursement and procurement insights, and accelerate market positioning.
Medical Device and Pharmaceutical Advisory Services
Safety from the start.
Gain insight from exclusive access to comprehensive error reporting programs for early risk identification and proven strategies to reduce errors, mitigate risks, and ensure compliance.
- Customized medication safety and human factors evaluations.
- Proactive risk detection to improve patient safety, compliance, and care outcomes.
- In-house team of safety experts, including clinicians and credentialed Human Factors Engineers.
- Leveraging over 50 years of experience in medical device and medication safety.
Just Culture
The Just Culture Company
Just Culture focuses on behaviors and system improvements, helping organizations report mistakes without fear, build trust through fairness, and design systems that prevent harm and promote proactive risk management.
- The Just Culture algorithm offers a clear, step-by-step decision-making guide for accountability and fairness.
- The Improvement Index tracks cultural progress within the organization.
- Training resources build internal capacity for continuous improvement.
- Just culture is a key component of SafeSystem SolutionsSM, a transformative framework that helps healthcare organizations build resilient, system-wide safety infrastructures—protecting patients, supporting clinicians, and driving progress toward total systems safety.
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