Healthcare Risk Management (HRM) Week is the American Society For Healthcare Risk Management's (ASHRM) annual campaign to raise awareness of the organizational value of today's healthcare risk managers. Healthcare risk managers play a valuable role in patient safety and risk management and HRM Week is our opportunity to tell our story.
Healthcare risk managers wear many hats in today's workplace. From patient safety to risk management and prevention, today's healthcare risk managers work to deliver organizational value and safe and trusted healthcare. We believe that effective healthcare risk management protects the patient, the balance sheet and the organization's reputation.
Healthcare risk managers operate at the intersection of clinical, risk financing, regulatory, and business issues, and also have the communication skills to interact with a variety of people under a variety of complex circumstances. They are the go-to professionals in many challenging situations.
Patient safety on the front and the back end is the key to managing enterprise risk and brings increased success in risk prevention. Healthcare risk managers believe that safe and trusted healthcare means saving lives and saving financial resources.
Healthcare risk management is an ever changing field. The American Society For Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) provides tools and resources to ensure that healthcare risk managers are delivering organizational value. ASHRM offers a great website and resources. Visit the website at www.ASHRM.org.