About our Annual Conferences
Each fall, ECRI Institute hosts an annual health policy conference uniting perspectives of stakeholders throughout the healthcare community in addressing broad issues about the accessibility and use of medical technology, pharmaceuticals, procedures, and health services. The conference focuses on timely and thought-provoking issues. Topics over the past 15 years have included comparative effectiveness, evidence-based medicine, dilemmas of risk, coverage decision-making, morbid obesity, chronic pain, and medical errors.     

National Collaborators and Speakers
Esteemed organizations collaborate with ECRI Institute on the content of the program. Regular collaborators have included Milbank Memorial Fund, Kaiser Permanente, Leonard Davis Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Internationally recognized speakers provide thought-provoking medical, regulatory, business, consumer, and legal perspectives.

Continuing Education
The conference typically offers continuing education credits in several fields, including Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits.

Preconference Methodology Course
In conjunction with the conference, ECRI Institute offers a methodology course featuring in-depth instruction by experts in the field of health services research plus staff from our Evidence-based Practice Group. The course compliments the conference by providing hands-on training, break-out discussion groups, and focused instruction about health technology assessment and methodology.

About Past Programs

• 2007: Comparative Effectiveness of Health Interventions: Strategies to Change Policy and Practice (Conference Web site)
• 2006: Confronting the Dilemmas of Risk in Healthcare: Emerging Trends and Practical Approaches (Agenda with speakers, CD Available)
• 2005: Chronic Pain as a Health System Priority: How Evidence Could Inform Policy and Practice (Agenda with speakers)
• 2004: Preventing and Treating Overweight and Obesity: How Effective Are the Interventions?  (Agenda with speakers, CD available)
• 2003: From Populations to Persons: Putting Evidence-based Medicine Research into Practice (Agenda with speakers)
• 2002: Making Coverage Decisions: Employment-based Coverage, Federal/State and State-Only Programs, and Medicare Carriers (Agenda with speakers)

How Can We Help You?
To learn more about ECRI Institute’s annual conferences, methodology courses, or our other educational programs, please e-mail us at communications@ecri.org or contact us to request information.