Risk management handbook for health care organizations /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	American Society for Healthcare Risk Management
Other Authors:	Carroll, Roberta
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	San Francisco : Chicago : Jossey-Bass ; AHA Press, [2004]
Edition:	Fourth edition.
Subjects:	Health Facilities > economics. Health Facility Administration. Risk Management.

Table of Contents:

Enterprise risk management : laying a broader framework for health care risk management
Health care legal concepts
Governance of the health care organization
Development of a risk management program
The health care risk management professional
Systems for risk identification
Risk mapping - a visual tool for risk management decision making
Physician and allied health professional credentialing
Claims and ligation management
Documentation and the medical record
Managing risk in acute-care speciality units
Creating patient safety and high reliability : critical challenges for risk managers
Primary and ambulatory care
Risk management and behavioral health
Home care services
Pre-hospital emergency medical services
Post-acute and long-term care
A contract review primer for risk managers
Managed care
Introduction to risk financing
Cost of risk
Insurance : basic priciples and coverages
Risk financing techniques
Request for proposals
Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
Emerging liabilities in partnerships, joint ventures, and collaborative relationships
Advertising liability - a growing risk management concern
Patient rights for empowered consumers and risk managers
Informed consent as a loss control process
Ethics and patient care
Communication with patients and other customers : the ultimate loss control tool
Employment practices legal issues
Absence and productivity management
Organizational staffing
Worker's compensation programs in health care organizations
Emergency management
Occupational and environmental risk exposures for health care facilities
Statutes, standards, and regulations
Accreditation, licensure, certification, and surveying bodies
Corporate compliance - a risk management framework
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) of 1996
Information technologies and risk management
Evolving risk in cyberspace and telemedicine
Data management
The risk manager and biomedical technology
Risk management's role in performance improvement
Benchmarking
Risk management program evaluation