For your Competency Discussion, speak to a healthcare professional in your workplace or an organization in which you are familiar about the strategies that have been used for process improvement and cost reduction and whether they have been successful and why. Also speak to the healthcare professional about the ways in which the organization has been able to decrease redundancy and risk.

To begin this Competency and meet your required engagement, post in the Discussion area a brief description of the healthcare organization at which the healthcare professional you spoke with works. Next, describe the strategies that have been used for process improvement and cost reduction and explain whether they have been successful and why. Then, describe the ways in which the organization to which the healthcare professional belongs has been able to decrease redundancy and risk. Finally, share any insights you gained from this discussion.