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The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for the healthcare industry? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

Healthcare risk management is in part driven by accreditation and certification standards, which in the United States are developed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, an independent, not-for-profit organization located in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

ASHRM is the organization to participate in if you're a healthcare risk manager. RIMS is great for an overall risk management perspective, but, really, healthcare is its own separate universe--and a big one at that, with its own separate galaxies of acute care, senior care, ambulatory care, therapy, etc.--so it needs its own risk management institution to address its specific current issues and emerging risks.