Overview: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an ongoing quality improvement process that is carried out in healthcare organizations by a multidisciplinary team. Unlike root cause analysis (RCA), which is carried out retrospectively in response to a sentinel event, FMEA is a proactive process that acknowledges that errors are inevitable and predictable. It anticipates errors and designs a system that will minimize their impact. FMEA mi...

Overview: The primary goal of this session is to demonstrate why the health care organization needs to perform a risk assessment and how to perform the risk assessment. This includes a description of the types of breaches of protected health information that have already occurred and the reasons those breaches happened. The presentation then provides that reasons that a risk assessment is required in a health care organization and who needs to...