In this Medtech Matters podcast episode of Mike on Medtech with Mike Drues, president of Vascular Sciences, we’re reviewing the list of top health technology hazards identified by ECRI. ECRI is an independent, nonprofit organization that improves the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care across all healthcare settings. Each year, they publish this Top 10 list to help bring awareness to problem technology concerns and encourage improvement. During this conversation, the following questions are addressed:

• We discussed this in a podcast in March 2024. Why are we discussing this again?
• What is ECRI, and what is the purpose of this list?
• Why is this topic important to device manufactures and to patients?
• What’s on the current 2026 hazards list?
• How do the hazards in the 2026 list compare to previous years?
• At the end of the day, what, if anything, have we learned? Are we going in the right direction or simply treading water?
• What are today’s takeaways?

Listen to this discussion and see if you have issues you should address based on this list. If you’d like to share thoughts, ask questions, or have a suggestion for a future topic for us to cover, please reach out to me at [email protected], and we’ll see if your ideas/inquiries/suggestions align with a future episode.