Getting the risk assessment right is particularly challenging for healthcare organizations, explains Robert Stratton, Executive Director – Enterprise Risk and Security; Corporate Compliance Official ...

Chronic diseases, and diabetes in particular, are significant cost drivers for most health plans. Diabetes alone accounts for approximately 1 in 4 health care dollars spent for the 37 million ...

Corporate scandals and failures are ever-present. The last few years have provided us with examples from healthcare providers, life science, banking, cryptocurrency, and automotive manufacturing. With ...

The MS in Quality, Safety and Risk Management in Healthcare prepares you to lead organizational efforts that improve and monitor quality metrics, improve safety for both patients and staff, and manage ...

The landscape of healthcare is continually evolving, with a growing emphasis on providing better outcomes for patients while controlling costs. Value-based care (VBC) is a departure from the ...

Patients and caregivers play a central role in health care safety in the hospital, ambulatory care setting, and community. Despite this, interventions to promote patient engagement in safety are still ...

While consumerism is a hot topic in healthcare, the industry is still behind the curve when it comes to taking the risk associated with patients “shopping” for services and factoring it fully into ...

The investment in and function of governance, risk and compliance are the underpinning of zero harm in a healthcare ...

The number of U.S. patients whose health care data was exposed to a data breach more than doubled in just one year between 2022 and 2023 from 37 million to 87 million. The health care sector ...

As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms still reflect the real world, which means they can ...

Participants in the Risk Assessment and Management Program-Diabetes Mellitus had reduced risks of developing all-cause dementia by 28%, Alzheimer disease by 15%, vascular dementia by 39%, and other or ...