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ECRI Highlights AI Governance Gaps as a Major Patient Safety Risk
ECRI, a nonprofit focused on healthcare safety and quality, has ranked insufficient AI governance in healthcare as the second biggest patient safety concern of 2025. While AI offers benefits like improved outcomes and cost reduction, ECRI warns of misdiagnoses and treatment errors that could lead to serious harm or death. Tracking AI-related mistakes is also challenging.
To mitigate risks, ECRI recommends multidisciplinary committees to evaluate AI technologies and continuously monitor safety outcomes.
Other top safety concerns include cybersecurity breaches (ranked fourth), which can delay care, prolonged hospital stays, and increase mortality. Diagnostic errors ranked seventh, with misdiagnosed cancers, vascular events, and infections being the most serious.
ECRI urges cybersecurity risk assessments and better diagnostic processes. Additional concerns include medical misinformation, substandard drugs, and poor discharge communication.
The annual ECRI report highlights critical patient safety threats, offering guidance for healthcare and medtech providers.
12-03-2025