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This summer we continued our annual tradition, and we had the pleasure of welcoming four post-secondary students to HIROC. While joining various departments, these students had the opportunity to leverage knowledge and forge connections with experts at HIROC. 

We were amazed to see the combined skills, unique perspectives, and curiosity that these students brought to the table. 

Beginning on November 28, HIROC is hosting a 4-part virtual series on Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare.
Establishing healthy workspaces is critical to supporting your people. Focusing on workplace violence prevention is necessary to ensure high-performing teams and to achieve safe care.

Since 2014, TOH has been improving safety, fostering education, and sharing knowledge through their Simulation Patient Safety Program.

This alert is intended to raise awareness around increasing threat level activities targeting VMWare ESXi servers.

The purpose of this alert is to increase awareness of widespread IT service outages caused by a faulty software update in the CrowdStrike cybersecurity product.

The HIROC Foundation Safety Grants Program supports Subscribers with safety and risk initiatives by providing funding and opportunities to share learnings.

"In healthcare, we have an obligation to ensure continuity of care. Because an emergency occurs, that doesn't mean we'll shut our doors. We want to ensure we are a resilient organization that can maintain continuity of our critical services in the event of a disaster." – Joshua Marshall, Emergency Management Specialist, Niagara Health.

Assisting our Subscribers in managing risk and minimizing loss through sharing best practices is at the cornerstone of HIROC’s philosophy. To ensure that you and your teams have the appropriate coverage and the latest information, we partner and collaborate with other insurers like HSB Canada.

Be sure to share this article with the property and facilities team at your organization. We know they’ll find it valuable.

We sat down with HIROC’s Claims Team to spotlight the value of the early reporting process. 

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Why is early reporting important?

Reporting early allows the team at HIROC to become involved at the outset. It gives us the opportunity to investigate and interview staff involved in care while information is fresh, and who may not be with the organization years later.

With the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) across industries and the many challenges facing the healthcare sector, it is increasingly important that healthcare organizations consider how to enable safe AI adoption.