Advisory Board February 2, 2024

ECRI on Wednesday released its 17th annual list of the “Top 10 Health Technology Hazards,” identifying medical device use among home users as the top technology threat healthcare organizations face.

Methodology

For the list, ECRI focused on “generic hazards,” or the problems that can arise from the risks inherent in the use of certain medical technologies. The list does not discuss the risks tied to specific models or suppliers.

To select the topics, ECRI engineers, scientists, clinicians, and other patient safety analysts nominated topics for consideration based on their own knowledge and...

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