Healthcare Peer Review is Time-Consuming and Difficult — It Shouldn’t Be May 12, 2023 By Origami Risk Quality care and the safety of patients is of utmost importance. To achieve this, healthcare organizations must continually review and evaluate processes, procedures, and staff to ensure efficiency and effectiveness and improve patient outcomes. One way to do this is through peer review, which involves healthcare professionals assessing the performance of a peer or ‘like’ … Continued
Integrated Risk Management (IRM) – What Is It, Why Does It Matter, and Where Should You Begin? April 18, 2023 By Origami Risk What’s so bad about organizational silos? According to strategic advisors Herman Vantrappen and Frederic Wirtz, authors of the Harvard Business Review article Making Silos Work for Your Organization, perhaps not as much as we’ve been led to believe. Common to almost all organizations, silos — or verticals — exist to leverage the benefits of specialization. … Continued
Proactive Safety is Responsible Safety – How HFMEA Can Protect Your Healthcare Organization March 21, 2023 By Origami Risk Healthcare is Inherently Risky Whether you are a network of healthcare facilities or just a small, individual organization, no healthcare operation is spared from dealing with risk. In fact, all healthcare operations are in the business of identifying and solving problems. From a doctor assessing a patient’s well-being to a risk manager reviewing incident trends, … Continued
The Current State of Core Insurance Technology Part 4: The Operating Environment March 15, 2023 By Origami Risk In this series, we share insights from a recent study* which seeks to understand the current state of core insurance systems and market sentiment for adopting SaaS-based models. While diving into the priorities of insurance organizations, it’s essential to look at the technical environment in which these priorities will ultimately be executed. Insurance policy, billing, … Continued
Expanded Environmental and Chemical Offerings February 27, 2023 By Origami Risk Last week Origami Risk announced new developments in the continued evolution of our EHS solution suite. This includes expanded offerings in environmental compliance and chemical management — offerings designed to help EHS leaders stay compliant, reduce the risk of chemical and environmental hazards, and put systems in place that help their teams operate at maximum … Continued
Client-Driven Innovation Leads to a Better Solution for Tracking Employee Health Information February 24, 2023 By Origami Risk In case studies and webinars featuring our clients, consistent themes emerge. One of the most common is the configurability of Origami Risk. Rather than forcing changes to proven processes, Origami’s risk management, insurance, safety, and compliance solutions allow clients to set up the system to mirror — and in many cases, improve — existing workflows. … Continued
The New Frontier for P&C Underwriters February 3, 2023 By Origami Risk New tech trends helping underwriters transform data into valuable insights, dramatically change the P&C underwriting role. Data is at the heart of the insurance business. It is also a critical component in the process of underwriting and insuring risks. Three new tech trends including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics are now … Continued
Is Your Core Insurance Technology an Asset or Liability? January 3, 2023 By adrian “The shift of applications and infrastructure to the cloud can free up budget dollars for investment in change and innovation initiatives aimed at influencing top-line growth.” –Deloitte In the 1997 personal finance best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki argues that many people too often mistake assets for liabilities and vice versa. Assets uniquely add to … Continued
The Pivotal Role of AI and Insurance Underwriting November 15, 2022 By Origami Risk “Both incumbents and newcomers are developing insurance products that use large amounts of data to assess, select, price, predict and prevent risks that in some cases were previously considered uninsurable. These new technologies allow for the development of powerful new business models which in turn enable the role of insurance underwriting to evolve from ‘understand … Continued
Comparing On-Premise Technology versus SaaS (software as a service) September 14, 2022 By Origami Risk Gartner, a leading technology and research company, defines total cost of ownership (TCO) as a “comprehensive assessment of information technology or other costs across enterprise boundaries over time. TCO includes hardware and software acquisition and/or subscription costs, management and support, communication, end-user expenses, and the opportunity cost of downtime, training, and other productivity losses.” Choosing … Continued