Journal of Healthcare Risk Management

The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management looks for articles that help risk managers improve their professional Performance. Articles should also examine techniques, spot trends, explain the significance and impact of court decisions and congressional activity on the risk management function, and relate risk management techniques to other healthcare areas.

Areas of particular interest are:

• patient safety
• risk financing/insurance
• enterprise risk management
• leadership and governance of healthcare organizations
• risk management metrics
• ethics in patient care
• patient communication
• health information management
• organizational staffing
• emergency management
• occupational and environmental health
• performance improvement
• clinical crisis management
• medication safety
• risk mapping
• risk management information systems

The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management is published quarterly by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM). The purpose of the journal is to publish research, trends, and new developments in the field of healthcare risk management with the ultimate goal of advancing safe and trusted patient-centered healthcare delivery and promoting proactive and innovative management of organization-wide risk. The journal focuses on insightful, peer-reviewed content that relates to patient safety, emergency preparedness, insurance, legal, leadership, and other timely healthcare risk management issues.

Please join us in congratulating Theresa Zimmerman and Geri Amori on winning the annual Journal of Healthcare Risk Management Author Excellence Award for their article, “The Silent Organizational Pathology of Insidious Intimidation” which appeared in Volume 30, Issue 3 of the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management.

The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management Author Excellence Award, selected the Editorial Review Board, is granted for an article that is well written, supportive of research in risk management and patient safety, supports the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management’s vision to be a global thought leader and creates new knowledge that advances the risk management and patient safety discipline.

The Journal of Healthcare Risk Management was recognized by industry peers with an APEX 2011 Award of Excellence in the category of Print: Health and Medical Writing.

APEX 2011, the 23rd Annual Awards for Publication Excellence, is an international competition sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report. Since 1988, APEX Awards have recognized outstanding publications throughout the communication and publishing industry.

This year, awards were given in 130 communication categories under 11 main headings, including newsletters; magazines and journals; annual reports; brochures, Web and intranet sites; one-of-a-kind publications and more.

According to the APEX judges, “the awards were based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the success of the entry -- in the opinion of the judges -- in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.”