According to Schabacker, joining forces with The Just Culture Company is a milestone that reflects ECRI's strategy to identify and mitigate the root causes of harm and inefficiency in healthcare.

"As the industry has evolved, we have continued to launch data-informed, evidence-based solutions that address the systemic failures that are causing the most harm – areas where healthcare leaders have struggled to create lasting change despite valiant efforts," said Schabacker. "We are thrilled to add this on-demand solution and strong brand to ECRI's portfolio to accelerate our mission to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally."


This latest acquisition comes four years after ECRI's move to acquire the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) to help healthcare partners tackle one of the leading causes of preventable harm: medication errors.

To learn more, visit https://home.ecri.org/just-culture-company.


ABOUT ECRI
ECRI is an independent, nonprofit organization improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care across all healthcare settings. With a focus on technology evaluation and safety, ECRI is trusted by healthcare leaders and agencies worldwide. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices PSO is a federally certified Patient Safety Organization as designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In 2020, ECRI acquired ISMP to create one of the largest healthcare quality and safety institutions in the world. Visit www.ecri.org.


ABOUT THE JUST CULTURE COMPANY
The Just Culture Company helps organizations across industries create accountable, safe, supportive cultures. For 30 years, they have helped transform work systems that erroneously demand perfection from fallible human beings. CEO and founder David Marx worked as an engineer and human factors leader in the aviation industry, where he established an award-winning error investigation process in use by airlines around the world to this day. He led a research and consulting practice focused on the management of human error through the integration of systems engineering, human factors and the law. He advised the Federal Aviation Administration's Human Factors Research Program and the NASA Space Shuttle Program. He developed novel risk modeling methods that have been used to model risk in high-consequence industries worldwide. The Just Culture Company has helped healthcare institutions and regulatory agencies reduce the risk of iatrogenic patient harm. In the area of system design, David Marx's novel error investigation process has been used to model and mitigate risks from wrong site surgery to medication errors.

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