Dr John Banja joins us to discuss the promises and perils of artificial intelligence in health care applications, including potential “megarisks” posed by AI tools themselves.

Hospital lawyers’ practices shape risk management operations, influence clinicians’ morale, and affect patient care.

Once focused on hospital liability, risk managers now navigate a broader set of enterprise risk management responsibilities.

Framing risk management goals as patient centered and evidence based helps align them with goals of ethics.

AI models might advance human welfare in unprecedented ways, but progress will not occur without substantial risks that will have to be managed.

Ethical dimensions of risk management are illuminated in AMA Code content on discharge planning.

This photograph depicts a gateway at the Oud Sint-Janshospitaal, a medieval Flemish hospital.

Interventions’ influences on decision making situate clinician performance evaluations in key ways.

Individuals can underperform in circumstances of shared accountability. In clinical settings, this is an unintended consequence of the health care sector’s complexity fragmentation.

Dr Helen Chapple talks about eliciting and honoring patients’ health care preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic.