HCI Announces Partnership with ECRI Institute
Health Care Informed (HCI), quality and safety system specialists to the Irish healthcare sector, is delighted to announce its partnership with the ECRI Institute, one of the foremost healthcare research agencies in the world, to offer its products and services to the Irish health system.
ECRI Institute is a totally independent not for profit research agency and a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organisation for Patient Safety, Risk Management and Health Care Technology. Dedicated to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research in healthcare to uncover the best approaches to improving patient care, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research.
The products and services that will be offered by HCI in Ireland include:
- Alerts Tracker™
A patient safety system that automates and enhances the alert and recall management process. Alerts Tracker is web-based system that electronically distributes vital information about medical device and drug alerts and recalls.<<more>>
- Health Technology Assessment Information Service
Systematic reviews, of best practice in healthcare technologies and procedures; Database Reports; access to profiles about healthcare technologies and services under research and development; Guides prepared in response to individual client queries <<more>>.
- Biomedical Benchmark™
A comprehensive resource for benchmarking, and managing, medical equipment service activities, such as how much other facilities pay for service, which devices your peers are no longer inspecting and how others manage similar amounts and types of equipment. <<more>>.
- Health Devices System
A membership programme which provides independent technology management reports, personal advisory services and device alerts for hazards and recall management to assist the safe cost effective acquisition and management of medical technology. <<more>>.
- Healthcare Product Comparison System
An international reference guide for purchasing healthcare technology. Learn what’s on the market worldwide; select models of your choice instantly; create model specific comparison charts; create custom tender documents. <<more>>.
John Sweeney, Director at HCI said,
“HCI is delighted to be able to expand the products and services it offers in patient safety improvement, risk and quality management, healthcare processes, devices, procedures, and drug technology, through its association with ECRI Institute. ECRI has over 40 years experience in healthcare research and is one of only a handful of organisations in the world designated as both a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization and in the United States as an Evidence-based Practice Centre by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.”
Dr David Watson, ECRI commented that:
“ECRI was established in 1955 as the Emergency Care Research Institute in Philadelphia, ECRI Institute opened its European Office in Welwyn Garden City in May 1995 with the goal of serving the particular needs of UK and Europe. ECRI is delighted to team up with Health Care Informed whose proven track record in quality and safety management in the Irish healthcare system makes them an ideal partner in Ireland.”
For more information email info@hci.ie.
