Before the Incident: How Connected Data Transforms Contractor Safety Management October 12, 2026 By adrian When a subcontractor passes prequalification with a clean EMR, valid certificates, and a solid safety record, you don’t expect them to be a problem. But six months later, when they’re involved in a recordable incident on your jobsite, you might pull their file and find a familiar pattern. Red flags might be recent inspection findings, … Continued
Healthcare Peer Review is Time-Consuming and Difficult — It Shouldn’t Be October 2, 2026 By Origami Risk Quality care and patient safety are the foundation of every healthcare organization’s mission. Achieving both requires continuous evaluation of processes, outcomes, and the people delivering care. Peer review is one of the most established mechanisms for doing that. It involves healthcare professionals assessing the performance of a peer or like practitioner to identify gaps and … Continued
Four Areas of Focus for Improving the Patient Experience September 29, 2026 By Origami Risk In an age where customer experience reigns supreme, the healthcare industry is beginning to view processes and outcomes through a similar lens. Hospitals and healthcare systems are businesses. Patients are customers. And customers must have a positive experience in order to continue using the services of a business. Patient experience is a term often applied … Continued
What “AI-Embedded” Actually Means in a Risk Management Platform September 28, 2026 By adrian AI-embedded means AI operates inside core workflows (policy ingestion, claims review, TCOR analytics) rather than sitting on top of an unchanged platform as a standalone feature. For risk leaders evaluating AI in risk management software, this is the most important distinction to get right: embedded AI changes how work gets done, and bolt-on AI changes … Continued
RMIS Configurability Starts with Architecture September 17, 2026 By adrian Risk managers who have been through more than one RMIS evaluation know the pattern. During the polished demo every workflow looks adjustable, every form appears editable, and the sales team answers every configuration question with “yes.” Then the system goes live. From there, any change to an approval chain, a form field, or a report … Continued
Management of Change in Manufacturing: How to Close the Gap Between the Program You Have and the Record That Holds Up September 14, 2026 By adrian An auditor asks for documentation on a process change from six months ago. It happened at a facility two states away. Most corporate EHS leaders at multi-site manufacturers know this moment well. Whether they can produce that record is the real test of their management of change process. Most organizations have a management of change … Continued
Workplace Violence in Healthcare: Why Prevention Programs Stall at the Data Layer September 14, 2026 By adrian Healthcare workers face higher rates of workplace violence than virtually any other industry. That has been documented across OSHA guidance, Joint Commission standards, and years of nursing surveys. What’s harder to explain is why most hospitals still lack a functioning prevention program, even where policies are written and training is conducted. The gap between those … Continued
Why Your Audit Committee Isn’t Satisfied With Your ERM Reporting Anymore September 2, 2026 By adrian You prepared for the audit committee meeting the way you always do, with current scores, a clean register, and a clear narrative about how the cycle ran. Your enterprise risk management program was running on schedule. The meeting went sideways anyway. The questions weren’t about whether you had a process. They were about the reasoning … Continued
The Many Layers of Risk Management in Healthcare August 28, 2026 By Origami Risk Somewhere in a hospital today, a near miss goes unreported because the form is too complicated. A workers’ comp claim sits unreviewed because the adjuster doesn’t have the right data. A compliance deadline passes unnoticed because it lives in a spreadsheet no one checks. This is what risk management looks like on disconnected systems. Modern … Continued
Integrated Risk Management (IRM) – What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and Where Should You Begin? August 25, 2026 By Origami Risk Why do organizational silos exist? Separate business functions help build expertise, assign accountability, and give teams a clear sense of identity and ownership. For some organizations, that vertical structure is a strength. For others, it becomes a problem. Risk management, safety, and compliance professionals know this tension well. They share a common goal of identifying, … Continued