ECRI Institute’s Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety releases new recommendations

Editor's Note

The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety, a collaborative operated by ECRI Institute, released a new report on July 26 that identifies ways technology can reduce and eliminate diagnostic testing and medication errors.

The report, “Health IT Safe Practices for Closing the Loop,” is based on events reported in ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Organizations database of more than 2 million adverse events.

The report includes implementation strategies based on the following recommendations:

• Develop and apply IT solutions to communicate the right information, to the right people, at the right time, in the right format.
• Implement IT solutions to track key areas.
• Use IT to acknowledge the review of information and to document action taken.