Design Pattern · September 2026
Risk bearer map
Show who carries clinical, product, data, implementation, cybersecurity, financial, operational, and reputational risk.
Under the pillar Market and System Conditioning
Map
For each risk, name the party carrying it now, the party controlling it, how the intervention changes exposure, available evidence, contractual treatment, insurance, and escalation path.
Rule
Responsibility should not move away from control. A party asked to carry risk needs the information, authority, and intervention path needed to manage it.
Review
Test whether the arrangement remains defensible to patients, clinicians, regulators, boards, and independent investors.
Put this to work
Risk bearer map application record
Apply Risk bearer map to a real piece of work and record what happened.
- For
- Clinical, operational, product, reimbursement, and implementation leaders.
- What you keep
- A risk bearer map application record you can review, revise, and send.
- What counts as sound
- Names a real setting
- Shows the work before and after
- Records exceptions
- Uses an observable result
- Ends with keep, revise, or stop
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