Founded more than 40 years ago, the CRICO insurance program includes all of the Harvard medical institutions and their affiliates, providing coverage to 32 hospitals, 15,500 physicians, more than 325 other health care organizations, and in excess of 100,000 other clinicians and employees. In 1979, The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions Incorporated (RMF) was established to, among other things, implement a data-driven approach to reducing medical error through clinical analysis of malpractice claims. That analysis has been, and continues to be, shared with member institutions to inform their own patient safety initiatives.