ECRI Institute Offers Free Educational Web Conference on Top Ten Health Technology Hazards

7/26/2010

August 11 webinar to address prevention of common patient safety hazards

PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA—ECRI Institute, (www.ecri.org), an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, is offering a free educational webinar, “Top Ten Health Technology Hazards,” Wednesday, August 11, 2010.

The seminar will focus on ECRI Institute’s list of the top ten health technology hazards that should be on every hospital’s list of safety concerns. The list—updated annually based on problems reported to and investigated by ECRI Institute—includes detailed descriptions of these hazards and actionable steps for avoiding them.

"Every healthcare provider organization worldwide should be developing self-sustaining networks of health technology safety champions," says James P. Keller, Jr., vice president, health technology evaluation and safety, ECRI Institute. "To that end, this seminar equips hospital leadership with the knowledge and materials needed to lead focused, high-impact initiatives to prevent recurring patient safety hazards involving medical technology, such as radiation overdose and cross-contamination from flexible endoscopes."

The webinar will also include information on best practices in safety and alert management. Seminar attendees will learn to identify and locate devices that pose risk, avoid common missteps in hazard and recall management, and establish executive buy-in for the alert process.

Speakers include:

Eric Sacks, Director, Healthcare Product Alerts, ECRI Institute
Maria Garrity, Supervisor, Alerts Tracker Customer Support and Training, ECRI Institute

To learn more, or to register for this Web conference, visit the website, or contact ECRI Institute by telephone at (610) 825-6000, ext. 5889; by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; by fax at (610) 834-0240; or by mail at 5200 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462-1298, USA.

About ECRI Institute
ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to healthcare to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best to enable improved patient care. As pioneers in this science for more than 40 years, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research. ECRI Institute is designated a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and an Evidence-based Practice by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI Institute PSO is listed as a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For more information, visit https://www.ecri.org.

For more information, contact:
Katie Kolesar
1+ (610) 825-6000, ext. 5548
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