Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI)

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Latest ECRI Institute Report Names Top 10 Hospital Technology Issues

Staff Writer | HITECH Answers | February 21, 2013

The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient care. The organization is a designated Evidence-Based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and listed as a federal Patient Safety Organization by HHS... Read More »

Understanding Healthcare's Top Technology Hazard

Robert J. Szczerba | Forbes.com | August 25, 2014

...Current clinical alarm technology is generally based on Data Threshold Science, which detects when a specific data threshold has been crossed and activates an alerting mechanism (usually an audible alarm)....

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