Optimally Effective Risk Management Programming in Healthcare Sector

This report delves into the critical aspects of risk management within the healthcare sector. It begins by identifying the implications faced by both patients and staff members, highlighting issues such as staff behavior and lack of training, which contribute to patient dissatisfaction and operational inefficiencies. The report then examines the structure of the current healthcare system, including leadership, financing, service delivery, human resources, and medical technologies. It explores various methods for analyzing and monitoring potential areas of risk, differentiating between qualitative and quantitative approaches, and detailing techniques such as Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Human Reliability Analysis (HRA). Furthermore, the report outlines strategies for addressing identified risks, including risk transfer, buffering, avoidance, and control, alongside organizational flexibility. The report concludes by assessing programs implemented to reduce risk, emphasizing the importance of regular reporting, meetings, and departmental progress reviews to ensure effective risk management practices. The provided references support the analysis with relevant research in the field.

Running head: Optimally effective risk management programming
OPTIMALLY EFFECTIVE RISK MANAGEMENT
PROGRAMMING

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Abstract:
This study is about the different types of issue faced by the patients and different staff of the
healthcare sector. The problems faced by the healthcare organization and ways to solve it. We
are also going to understand the different types of risk faced by the healthcare sector and the
ways to solve their problem.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................4
Implication faced by staff member’s staff members:.................................................................4
The Current healthcare system:..................................................................................................4
Methods of analyzing and monitoring potential areas of risk:...................................................4
Strategies for addressing and identified potential areas of risk:................................................4
The Assessment of the programs that has been implemented in reducing risk:........................5
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................5
Reference List:...........................................................................................................................6

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Introduction:
Risk management in the healthcare sector is challenging because hospital risk managers have
many responsibility. They identify areas which are of high risk that could harm patients,
employees and visitors (Dietz et al., 2015).
Implication faced by patients and staff members:
 When the doctor is able to pinpoint the cause of the sickness or the disease.
 The patients have to undergo though rude behaviour of the staff members.
 They are provided with the extra work with their regular work.
 They are not provided training which leads to frustration amongst the staff members
The Current healthcare system:
Leadership and governance: They are one providing the direction to the healthcare system.
Health Financing: They are responsible for dealing with the finance of the healthcare sector.
Service delivery: It is responsible of the providing the service the services such as check up,
providing medicine to the customer that are the patients (Lin et al. 2014).
Human resource: They are the individual who keep the health sector running.
Medical Products, technologies and vaccines: The health sector require medical product and
needs to be in stock.
Methods of analyzing and monitoring potential areas of risk:
Qualitative methods: It basically consists of analysis and investigation of events
systematically to determine policy change, corrective action to be taken and process redesign.
The methodologies for qualitative methods are Root cause analysis (RCA) and Critical
incident technique (CIT) (Montgomery & Oladapo, 2014).
Quantitative methods: It is mostly used at the technical level where the risk is accountable
and is related to process reliability, parts and equipments. The most commonly used
methodology is Human Reliability Analysis (HRA).
Strategies for addressing and identified potential areas of risk:
Risk transfer: This means that the person responsible should allocate the handling of risk to
the best person available in the health sector.
Risk Buffering: It means that there should be a available reserved resource or buffer to
handle the impact of the resource.
Risk avoidance: It is done by changing the parameter of the project to avoid the risk.
Risk Control: It is to control the risk in the healthcare sector by controlling the outcome
(Thakur & Ramesh, 2015).
Organizational Flexibility: Organizational flexibility should be created to handle the risk.

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The Assessment of the programs that has been implemented in reducing
risk:
In the healthcare sector can be done by checking all the reports in a timely manner,
performing regular meeting with the responsible person of the different departments, seeing
the progress of the concerned department and providing with possible solutions if any critical
issue occurs.
Conclusion:
We can conclude that the healthcare sector for its better performance needs to perform better
analysis of its issue and correct measure to solve it.

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