Healthcare organizations face all the same challenges as other industries when it comes to the damages incurred from cyber attacks. However, they also face the especially dangerous problem of hackers potentially physically harming patients. [...]
From the onset, hospitals and healthcare organizations have been risky environments—home to life and death situations on a daily basis, even if you discount the growing number of risks we face in our modern [...]
In honor of this being Patient Safety Awareness Week, this week, we thought it timely to discuss some of the top 10 patient safety issues for 2018 and how the right risk management technology [...]
No business is immune to data breaches...and that includes the healthcare industry, which has seen an 18 percent increase in breaches since 2015, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for [...]
Without an Healthcare ERM program in place, it makes it exceptionally difficult for healthcare organizations to to predict the next steps they must take to be competitive and financially viable — especially in today’s [...]
No one wants to minimize the impact of medical errors on patients. But it’s important to understand the resulting impact on involved providers and their organizations. Ignoring these other “victims” of patient safety events can [...]
