Exam Content Risk and quality management are the responsibility of all employees. As a health care manager, it is important that you are able to communicate the importance of these topics to your team...

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Quality Improvement and Risk Management in Healthcare
Contents
Background    3
Quality Improvement    3
Risk Management    4
Risk Management Decision-Making    4
Quality Management Decision-Making    5
Risk Management Tools or Strategies    6
Quality Management Tools or Strategies    6
Summary    7
Reference    8
Background
The Healthcare industry is constantly making advancements in an environment where technological progress is at an all-time high. However, whenever it comes to resolving patient concerns, assuring system efficiency, quality improvement, and patient safety, the healthcare system falls well short of the required standard. Healthcare risk management shields healthcare sectors from a multitude of industry-specific risks. However, the healthcare setting necessitates deliberate restructuring to accomplish consistent, long-term, and cost-effective quality improvement in the healthcare system. Quality improvement is intended to increase security, efficiency, and effectiveness (Coles et al., 2020).
This paper focuses on the basic concepts of quality improvement and risk management in the healthcare sector, relevant decision-making processes, and relevant tools or strategies.
Quality Improvement
Quality improvement (QI) is a structured, formal way to analyze practice performance and attempt to enhance it. There are multiple ways or QI models available to assist organizations in collecting and analysing data and testing modifications. While selecting a credible QI framework to guide organizational efforts is crucial, it is even more critical that organizations actively commit to implementing the QI process and appropriate QI practices (Altuntas & Kansu, 2019). Recognizing and correctly applying QI is critical for any practise seeking to enhance efficiency, clinical outcomes, or patient safety. QI inculcates a quality culture in the practice. It identifies and assesses potential aspects for improvement. It gathers and analyses data. It communicates their outcomes. It commits to conducting ongoing evaluations. It shares what it has learned with others to enable large-scale, quick improvement that assists and benefits the health care sector and every patient in general (Coles et al., 2020).
Risk Management
Risks impact individuals, healthcare practitioners, administrative personnel, and the healthcare organisation in general. The efforts to maintain absolute protection, considered for patients, are fundamental to the interests of health care providers, researchers, and governments across the planet. Risk management is thus described as the procedure by which health practitioners improve safety precautions, medical mistakes, and other potential dangers (Ferdosi et al., 2020). Risk management is the procedure of analyzing existing procedures and activities, recognizing risk factors, and putting processes in place to mitigate those risks. Risk management in medical services can be the variation between death and life, raising the stakes considerably. The way to exchange and communicate data or information across all healthcare organisations is one aspect that has contributed to the success of...