HEADLINES

• Ten Steps to Address Risk Management
• CMS Conference and Silver Anniversary
• Heart Failure—Is Your Hospital Certified?
• SME’s Dynamic Duo
• Extreme Lean SWAT Teams
• InfinityQS donates $1 million
• Testing Labs for New Children’s Products

Ten Steps to Address Risk Management

As the world seeks to extricate itself from the worst financial crisis for many decades, many senior risk professionals and independent experts are asking about the roles, responsibilities, and limitations of risk management in the world’s financial institutions. Are the tools available to risk managers fit for the purpose? Is there appropriate expertise and leadership at a senior level to guide risk management? Do risk managers lack authority to rein in the excesses of risk-takers? Is there sufficient understanding of potential risk concentrations across institutions’ full range of operations?

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