Hlt-313 Week 4 Discussion Question 2

HLT-313 Week 4 DQ 2Currently, most organizations are working at ensuring an upward trend in their performance. This is very essential even in the healthcare organization because it leads to the achievement of excellence in the experience of patients during treatment, good health, and reduced costs of treatment (Song &Tucker, 2016). Healthcare organizations aim at improving patient safety, risk management strategies and quality management.Patient safetyPatient safety is important in healthcare organization and an improvement can be made in hospitals by putting the following measures in place. Ensure there is a well-functioning patient identification system, developing a good communication system for the staff, proper administering of medicine to avoid confusion and issuing of wrong medicine, having a functioning alarm system, preventing infection of a contagious disease among patients and avoiding any possible surgical mistakes.Risk managementRisk is the possibility of a damage or loss happening and is caused by weaknesses that can be avoided (Ali, 2016). In healthcare organizations, risk management aims at establishing, determining and the minimization of the risks that are likely to happen on patients, visitors, staff and organizational asset. The methods of risk management used are reducing the likelihood of the risk occurring and reducing the