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    This document discusses healthcare risk management. It states that some patients in the US healthcare system die due to errors and poor care rather than their illnesses. This occurs due to factors like careless practitioners and poor organizational structures. To address this, healthcare organizations need to monitor adverse events and ensure patient safety by recognizing where errors can occur and minimizing them. This involves replacing outdated technology, restructuring organizations to improve culture and patient outcomes, and carefully vetting employees. The document also defines risk as uncertainty about future events that could threaten patient safety, providers' assets and reputations. Risks affect all healthcare stakeholders and influence essential assets like patients, practitioners, facilities and financial resources.

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    This document discusses healthcare risk management. It states that some patients in the US healthcare system die due to errors and poor care rather than their illnesses. This occurs due to factors like careless practitioners and poor organizational structures. To address this, healthcare organizations need to monitor adverse events and ensure patient safety by recognizing where errors can occur and minimizing them. This involves replacing outdated technology, restructuring organizations to improve culture and patient outcomes, and carefully vetting employees. The document also defines risk as uncertainty about future events that could threaten patient safety, providers' assets and reputations. Risks affect all healthcare stakeholders and influence essential assets like patients, practitioners, facilities and financial resources.

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    This document discusses healthcare risk management. It states that some patients in the US healthcare system die due to errors and poor care rather than their illnesses. This occurs due to factors like careless practitioners and poor organizational structures. To address this, healthcare organizations need to monitor adverse events and ensure patient safety by recognizing where errors can occur and minimizing them. This involves replacing outdated technology, restructuring organizations to improve culture and patient outcomes, and carefully vetting employees. The document also defines risk as uncertainty about future events that could threaten patient safety, providers' assets and reputations. Risks affect all healthcare stakeholders and influence essential assets like patients, practitioners, facilities and financial resources.

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    Healthcare Risk Management

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    This document discusses healthcare risk management. It states that some patients in the US healthcare system die due to errors and poor care rather than their illnesses. This occurs due to factors like careless practitioners and poor organizational structures. To address this, healthcare organizations need to monitor adverse events and ensure patient safety by recognizing where errors can occur and minimizing them. This involves replacing outdated technology, restructuring organizations to improve culture and patient outcomes, and carefully vetting employees. The document also defines risk as uncertainty about future events that could threaten patient safety, providers' assets and reputations. Risks affect all healthcare stakeholders and influence essential assets like patients, practitioners, facilities and financial resources.

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    Healthcare organizations in the US have been associated with errors that place patients at

    more health risks. Some patients who succumb to their illnesses do so because of poor health

    care services provided by healthcare practitioners. Therefore, patients who visit some healthcare

    organizations in the US may risk losing their lives because of factors like careless practitioners

    or poor organizational structures in healthcare organizations (Kavaler and Alexander, 2014).

    Therefore, there is need to monitor adverse events and ensure patient safety. Monitoring these

    events involve recognizing instances where medical error can occur and minimizing them.

    Medical errors can occur due to the use of outdated technology or poor employee-employee,

    employee-employer or employee-patient relationship. Minimizing these instances involve

    replacing outdated technology and restructuring the organization’s structure and culture to

    enhance patient outcome. Employees should be vetted wisely by healthcare organization

    administration before being employed; this ensures that patients receive better medical treatment.

    Risk is the uncertainty about future occurrences that could jeopardize patient safety and

    providers' assets and reputations. These future occurrences could include a change in particular

    statutes that could negatively affect operations in a healthcare facility, data breach, alterations in

    patient rights, discovery of new medical records or infection and disease prevention. A risk

    affects all stakeholders in the healthcare sector and also influences several assets that are

    essential in the survival of the sector (Kavaler and Alexander, 2014). Therefore, assets in the

    healthcare sector are objects and individuals that makeup the healthcare system. They include

    individuals like patients, medical practitioners and volunteers; property like equipment, facilities

    and buildings; financial resources like reimbursements, revenues and grants; and goodwill that

    the healthcare system offers to the community that ensures well-being and health.
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    Reference

    Kavaler, F. and Alexander, R.S. (2014). Risk management in healthcare institutions : limiting

    liability and enhancing care. Burlington, Ma: Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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