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ECRI Now provides unique insights on pressing healthcare issues. In each episode, ECRI’s subject matter experts share their experience in relationship to the latest healthcare news.
Topics will range from ethical issues in healthcare, patient safety, infection control, healthcare IT and spend management across the continuum of care from health systems to non-acute care settings.
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Sep 6, 2023
Racial and Other Disparities in Maternal Healthcare
Maternal harm and death in the United States is the worst among all wealthy nations, and racial and other disparities mean that some groups are even more severely impacted. ECRI’s Carlye Hendershot, senior patient safety analyst, describes efforts underway to reverse these trends, highlighting steps that policymakers and providers can take to protect patients who are or have recently been pregnant, especially in the postpartum period after they leave the hospital.
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Aug 10, 2023
Preparing for the Next Wave of AI in Healthcare
As generative AI technologies get more attention on social media, in the news, and even Hollywood labor disputes, providers are putting a new focus on how AI is used in healthcare. ECRI’s Senior Engineering Manager Erin Sparnon joins us to discuss how AI is already being used, how AI developers are learning to overcome racial biases that may have been baked in to AI training data in the past, and how organizations can prepare for even more AI development and implementation.
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Jul 14, 2023
In the ECRI Lab: Testing Exam Gloves
A pair of exam gloves may cost only 10 cents, but ECRI estimates that U.S. healthcare providers spend more than a half billion dollars on exam gloves each year. In this episode, Julie Miller, a Principal Project Engineer at ECRI, describes how she tests exam gloves in real-world conditions to make sure they stretch, bend, and come on and off readily to protect wearers from infectious diseases.
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Jul 7, 2023
Risks of Direct Oral Anticoagulants
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) came onto the market only recently, but are widely prescribed, displacing drugs that have been available since the 1950s. Jose Nery, a Safe Medication Management Fellow with the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), discusses errors related to DOACs reported to ECRI and the ISMP Patient Safety Organization, and strategies that pharmacists and patients can use to limit those risks.
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Jun 14, 2023
The Crucial Role Healthcare Risk Managers Play
Most patients will never come into contact with the risk manager when they go to the hospital or the doctor's office. But without the risk manager, a crucial layer of umbrella-like protection would be missing to ensure their care is safe and effective. Our guest, Cailin Madrigale, a Risk Management Analyst at ECRI, describes the role risk managers play as we celebrate their contributions during Healthcare Risk Management Week.
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Jun 9, 2023
In the ECRI Lab: Anesthesia Machines
ECRI has tested anesthesia machines for decades, adapting our evaluations to account for advances in technology. Brad Bonnette, a Senior Project Officer in ECRI’s Device Evaluation team, describes some of the newest features designed to help providers ensure that patients are maintained at the right level of sedation, and how ECRI expects to see these and similar features adopted going forward.
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May 23, 2023
Advancements in Telesitting Devices
When patients are at risk for falling or self-harm, hospitals may assign staff or volunteers to sit with them and call if help is needed. If those patients need to be isolated, as in the case of infection control concerns, sitters could be put at risk by being in the same room. ECRI’s Priyanka Shah, a Senior Project Officer in Device Evaluation, has been evaluating remote monitoring telesitting devices to address this need.
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May 14, 2023
Skilled Nursing Care Week: Fall Prevention in Long Term Care
Skilled nursing communities manage long term care patients with some of the most intense care needs, with the danger of falling being one of their biggest risks. We spoke with Alex Adams, an Aging Services Analyst and Consultant with ECRI, to discuss the challenges these providers face and how to balance care and patient autonomy.
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May 10, 2023
Cyberattacks and Networked Devices: A Question of When, Not If
As networked healthcare devices become more prevalent, healthcare organizations can be increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. We spoke with Juuso Leinonen, a Principal Project Officer in Device Evaluation at ECRI, to discuss how those vulnerabilities are evolving and what organizations can do to reduce their risk.
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Apr 5, 2023
Testing Stockpile Ventilators | The Pediatric Mental Health Crisis | ECRI's Mission Trip to Panama, Floating Doctors
In this show we cover 1) testing stockpile ventilators, 2) the pediatric mental health crisis, and 3) ECRI's volunteer trip to Panama.
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Feb 28, 2023
Isolation Gown Testing | Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns | Changes in Aging Services
In this show we cover 1) the testing of isolation gowns, 2) ECRI's Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023, and 3) the changing face of the aging services industry.
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Feb 1, 2023
Testing PPE | Early Sepsis Recognition and Treatment | Evolution of Care from Inpatient to Ambulatory Settings
In this show we cover 1) testing personal protective equipment (PPE), 2) early sepsis recognition and treatment, and 3) the evolution of care from inpatient to ambulatory settings.
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Jan 9, 2023
CPAP Recall | Vaccine Administration | Top 10 Health Technology Hazards
In this episode we cover three key topics 1) Philips CPAP device recall 2) best practices for safe vaccine administration 3) overview of ECRI's 2023 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list
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