CRICO/RMF is renowned for using evidence (e.g., medical malpractice claims data) to initiate patient safety improvements. Toward that end, CRICO/RMF and its subsidiary, Healthcare Safety Research Institute (HSRI), award grants for research and demonstration projects aimed at achieving greater understanding of patient safety issues, their etiology, and potential interventions.
The funding of these grants comes from the board of directors of CRICO, the Controlled Risk Insurance Company, which provides medical malpractice insurance to the nearly 10,000 physicians, 18 hospitals and 227 other health care organizations that make up the Harvard medical communities and MIT.
This funding is a major part of CRICO/RMF's efforts to assist its members in delivering the safest health care in the world.
Through its subsidiary, HSRI, CRICO/RMF supports small pilot projects, initial ideas, or seed projects around practical interventions. Projects represent a variety of methodologies, including ones that support research, education, quality improvement, and demonstration projects. Budget requests cannot exceed $100,000. Applicants must be employees of an institution that is a CRICO/RMF member and/or must receive their medical malpractice coverage through CRICO.
