Risk Management 101

Are your healthcare projects consistently facing delays, budget overruns, or challenges with new process adoption? You might be overlooking the crucial role of risk management in healthcare project success.

As a healthcare project leader or manager, mastering risk management is essential. While patient safety and provider effectiveness are often the primary focus when considering risks in healthcare, project-related risks – impacting timelines, costs, and overall success – frequently get underestimated.

This beginner-friendly course equips you with the foundational knowledge of project risk management specifically tailored for the healthcare industry. Learn how to proactively identify and navigate potential roadblocks, shifting your focus from reactive firefighting to risk prevention.

By the end of this course, you'll gain the initial building blocks of a practical risk management toolkit for yourself and your organization. Develop skills to improve project implementation, enhance project success rates, and ensure projects align with core goals like improved patient outcomes and enhanced provider efficiency.

Key takeaways include:

• Understanding the importance of healthcare project risk management.
• Identifying common project risks in healthcare implementations.
• Developing a basic risk management framework.
• Learning strategies for risk mitigation and risk response.
• Building a foundation for continuous risk management improvement.

Continuing Education:

• PMP® Certificate Holders: This course content is suitable for self-logging 0.5 PDU in the "Ways of Working" education category. Please note that PDUs will not be automatically added to your PMI Dashboard. You must manually log your PDUs in your PMI account. Contact the instructor for assistance with PDU logging.