The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have redesignated ECRI Institute as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Patient Safety, Risk Management, and Healthcare Technology. Collaborating Center appointment by PAHO/WHO indicates that an organization contributes to WHO's public health mission by providing specialized knowledge, expertise, and support in the health field to WHO and its member nations.

As part of this designation, ECRI Institute provides a quarterly eNewsletter, Patient Safety Alerts, which includes patient safety, risk management, and health care technology information.

Samples of WHO Patient Safety Alerts
March 2008: MRSA, HIV testing, drug labeling and packaging, blood glucose test strip recall, AM2PAT syringes contaminated, Saudi Food and Drug Authority, and Ecuador conference

October 2007: MRSA control, tuberculosis training, wheelchair mechanism failure, external defibrillators, ultrasound systems, and wrong-site surgery

May 2007: Airway fires, cell phone safety, worker communication, ventilator failure, and PACS recall

For members of the international healthcare community, please subscribe to ECRI Institute’s Patient Safety Alerts by emailing communications@ecri.org with “Patient Safety Alerts Subscribe” in the subject field.