PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA--ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, is offering a free educational breakfast seminar, "Hazard and Recall Management: Best Practices," which will be held at ECRI Institute's Headquarters in Plymouth Meeting, PA, on Wednesday, January 21, 2009.

The seminar is designed for hospital-based biomedical and clinical engineers, materials managers, risk managers, patient safety officers, and other health professionals responsible for responding to product alerts. The program is aimed at providing insight into identifying and locating affected healthcare products and putting an effective alert management process in place.

"Managing hundreds of device recalls can be a daunting task for hospitals," says James P. Keller, Jr., M.S., vice president, health technology evaluation and safety, ECRI Institute. "Through this seminar, participants will learn about ways to efficiently manage this process so that critical information about potentially dangerous products does not fall through the cracks."
Seminar attendees will also learn the common missteps in the hazard and recall process, as well as how to establish executive-level buy-in to the alert process. In addition, the seminar will feature a panel/audience discussion on the five most common challenges of hazard and recall management.

Seminar participants will also learn about ECRI Institute's Alerts Tracker™, a patient safety tool for automating and enhancing the hazard and recall management process.

The seminar will be held on Wednesday, January 21, 2009, at ECRI Institute, 5200 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462. The event is scheduled from 7:30 to 11:00 a.m. There is no fee to attend the seminar; however, reservations must be made in advance due to limited seating.

For more information on the Hazard and Recall Management: Best Practices seminar, visit www.ecri.org/bestpractices or contact ECRI Institute by telephone at (610) 825-6000, ext. 5891.

About ECRI Institute
ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to healthcare to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best to enable improved patient care. As pioneers in this science for 40 years, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research. ECRI Institute is designated a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Back to HCB News