Healthcare ethically informed risk management as paradigm of integrative ethics

Abstract

In the context of the development of health systems, which after and beyond the pandemics show a decisive challenge for their own survival, we consider the development over the last 25 years a growing interest in risk management, at first understood as simple clinical risk and then extended to the organisational components. This perspective, which integrated the dimension of the medical-clinical experience in the context of complex organisations, today shows its limits if it is not reconciled with an ethically informed risk management capable of uniting both the component of professional ethics in healthcare organisations as well as the ethical management of corporate risk. This integration makes it possible to outline a particularly interesting use of the concept of risk in applied ethics. The concept of risk is thus identified through the individual case but also linked to the more general situation of global analysis.