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FORT WASHINGTON, PA — ECRI has recognized Cottage Health with its 2026 Health Technology Excellence Award after the California health system implemented a blood management program that reduced expired blood …
ECRI Honors Cottage Health for Blood Management Program Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — Patient transfers accounted for nearly half of more than 71,000 falls-related safety events reported last year, highlighting routine movement activities as a major source of risk …
ECRI Study Identifies Patient Transfers as Leading Fall Risk Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — ECRI and Institute for Safe Medication Practices warned that many compounded peptide products marketed for wellness and anti-aging purposes lack sufficient clinical evidence supporting their safety …
ECRI Warns Compounded Peptide Boom Outpaces Safety Data Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — ECRI has spun out its Spend Management and Recall Management business into a new independent company, Staritas, backed by investment from Accel-KKR, to expand healthcare supply …
ECRI Spins Out Supply Chain Unit Into New Company Staritas Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — ECRI announced its 2026 Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns report, identifying the use of artificial intelligence in clinical diagnosis as the leading risk due to potential …
ECRI Names AI Diagnostic Risks Top Patient Safety Concern for 2026 Read More
WILLOW GROVE, PA — Artificial intelligence chatbots are now the single biggest health technology hazard facing patients in 2026, according to a new report from ECRI, which cautions that the …
AI Chatbots Named Top Health Tech Danger for 2026, Safety Group Warns Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — A federal research initiative is aiming to redefine how medical care reaches rural communities, proposing a new model that delivers hospital-level services directly to patients far …
Could a New Mobile Platform Reinvent Rural Healthcare Access? Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — Northern Arizona Healthcare has been named the winner of ECRI’s 2025 Safety Excellence Award, earning national recognition for a sweeping, systemwide effort to strengthen patient safety, …
Safety Breakthrough: Northern Arizona Healthcare Clinches National Award for 2025 Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — ECRI has announced the winners of its 2025 Alerts Impact Award, recognizing hospitals and health systems that demonstrated outstanding performance in medical device and supply recall …
ECRI Honors Healthcare Leaders for Excellence in Recall Management Read More WILLOW GROVE, PA — The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), a subsidiary of ECRI, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to enhance …
ISMP Awarded FDA Contract to Strengthen Medication Safety Surveillance Read More