Concepts of Risk and Quality Management in Healthcare

Concepts of Risk and Quality Management in Healthcare

Imagine you are a quality leader for a healthcare organization, and you have been asked to create a document for new employees to introduce the basic concepts of risk and quality management

Write a 1,500-word paper in which you address all of the following:

• Explain basic concepts of quality improvement in the health care industry.
• Explain the concepts of risk management in the health care industry.
• Analyze the information needed for decision-making processes in risk and quality management in the health care industry.
• Analyze 4 risk-and quality-management tools used in the health care industry by considering the following:
• What are the risk- and quality-management tools used in health care?
• What is the purpose of each tool?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of the tools selected?
• Explain challenges in making risk- and quality-management decisions in the healthcare industry.

Cite at least 5 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references.