Risk Management is not what you would typically call an exciting activity. It is a slow and methodical process, based on data, science and educated assumptions.

This book is instead a light read. It does not cover medical device risk analysis, nor risk analysis at all as a structured process. It spaces instead through several industries, scenarios, including the most dangerous place you can step in: your own home.

It may not help you create a better risk management plan or give you an eye opening view on the device you’re currently working on, but it is full of small pieces on information that can provide interesting food for thoughts, especially from the user behavior standpoint.

Risk is about why we behave in such contradictory ways. It may also help us keep our fingers attached in the kitchen, our children afloat at the pool and teenagers safe behind the wheel. Casner shows us how and when injuries happen and in Risk we learn what we should really be worrying about.

Some examples below...

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Patient’s noncompliance & cyberchondria

We want to be in full control about everything in our lives including our health. Even though we go to a doctor for checkups or when something is hurting or broken, how often have you decided to carry out an alternative recovery plan from the one your doctor suggested? You are not alone.

People are reportedly skipping prescribed medications and not taking their doctors advice. The real place where over 70% of people now go for their medical information is the internet. Sadly, most of these people quickly become cyberchondriac – where shopping for possible illnesses will get common symptoms linked to very serious and rare conditions.

Casner suggests we use the internet to supercharge our interactions with our doctors instead of diagnosing and treating ourselves.

Read more about this and other examples of preventable injuries here.

Two new column types can now be added to the Risk Table of the SoftComply Risk Manager Cloud:

Remote link column type supports visualization of any existing external websites, including Confluence pages, to your risks in the risk table view. You will be able to add the remote link in the Jira issue view with the full url and the page name, which is visualized in the risk table.

Custom field column type supports mapping any new risk table columns to the already existing custom fields you may have in your Jira Cloud. This will enable reusing the existing fields you have already created. NB! Should you already have a specific field in your Jira that you want to display in the risk table, be sure to reuse that custom field by creating a custom field type column in the risk table and selecting the existing field. This way you will have avoided creating a duplicant custom field into your system. As such, you can create columns of epic link, number, Jira component field or any other Jira field type that already exists in your system.

For the entire list of different column types that you can add to the Risk Table, please see here.

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