By remaining up-to-date on industry trends, they are well suited to help shape proactive patient care practices. Risk managers make hundreds of decisions in busy healthcare settings that ultimately improve the quality of life for patients. By implementing clear, detailed policies regarding incident reporting, risk managers ensure occurrences are promptly detected, investigated and remediated through staff training, improved communication protocols and other proactive practices. Risk managers work at the center of that system, categorizing incidents according to type of event, time of day and department, as well as how frequently an event occurs and its potential for financial impact. Risk cannot be appropriately mitigated without a comprehensive system for tracking and recording adverse occurrences.
#ROLE OF RISK MANAGER IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL#
It’s important that we recognize and acknowledge how professional risk managers make the following everyday differences in their organizations:
Touching nearly every corner of a healthcare enterprise, risk managers strengthen organizational operations, both proactively – by identifying, preventing and mitigating loss – and reactively – through real-time damage control. Uniquely positioned at the intersection of patient safety, clinical care, regulatory compliance and finance, risk managers proactively address a myriad of liability threats on a day-to-day basis, including diagnostic and therapeutic errors, hazardous conditions, workplace violence, data breaches, social media missteps, and natural disasters, among other exposures.
In an industry marked by healthcare consolidation and unprecedented change from new delivery and alignment models, risk managers remain a steady force in volatile times.
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