Healthcare burnout spiked during the pandemic to almost twice the rate of other industries. In fact, three in ten healthcare workers are considering leaving the profession due to the emotional drain caused by the [...]
By Jim Wetekamp, CEO, Riskonnect Healthcare professionals around the world are experiencing higher levels of burnout than ever before due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here Jim Wetekamp, CEO of enterprise risk management provider Riskonnect, tells [...]
Risk management in healthcare is the process of identifying threats that could harm the organization, its patients, staff, or anyone else within the facility. What sets healthcare risk management apart from that function in [...]
By Jay Lechtman, Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, Healthcare Healthcare provider organizations (HPOs) are starting to recognize the value of consolidating vendors and implementing an Enterprise Risk Management solution that is both holistic and [...]
Jay Lechtman, Vice President, Strategy & Innovation, Healthcare When an adverse event occurs, the immediate priority is to deal with the situation at hand. Move beyond those immediate and reactive issues and the improvement-minded [...]
By Jay Lechtman, Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation, Healthcare, Riskonnect In a world defined by social distancing, telemedicine is now an indispensable form of healthcare delivery. Providing care virtually can broaden access, reduce [...]
By Jay Lechtman, Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation, Healthcare at Riskonnect As published in RSAConference Today’s global health crisis is transforming healthcare delivery. While telemedicine isn’t new, the pandemic has significantly accelerated its [...]
Healthcare provider organizations were at the bullseye of the pandemic. As providers of care, a pandemic was something most organizations planned for. But the size and scope of COVID-19 still appeared to catch many off [...]
An incident reporting system that makes it easy to gather raw data on what is happening in your organization is a beautiful thing. Catchy icons, easy-to-navigate reporting, and advanced form-management tools, such as show/hide [...]
Four in 10 healthcare organizations feel they’re strong in patient safety, but a whopping 90% say there’s still room for improvement. Incident reporting is ground zero when it comes to improving patient outcomes. You [...]
Nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers are the eyes and ears of your safety program. Outdated technology, however, can sabotage even the best of intentions. How many incidents go unreported if, for instance, a [...]
It’s no secret that incident reports are a great means of improving patient safety. And the more incident reports, the better. After all, you can only learn from the mistakes that you know about. The [...]
