ERT, a global solution provider for high-quality patient safety and efficacy endpoint data collection, has been honored as a 2014 Innovation Award Recipient by the Philadelphia Business Journal. The awards program recognizes the region’s leading companies for their innovations in the fields of healthcare and life sciences.

ERT was named the Highest Ranked Winner in the program’s Patient Safety category for AVERT, its innovative approach to help prevent suicide. AVERT is an electronic patient reported suicide risk assessment system providing a reliable, efficient and repeatable process for identifying patients at risk for suicide and enabling the care giver to determine appropriate treatment.