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(Morehead: Charlotte, NC) -- Morehead, the human-capital research firm, will host a webinar titled “Secrets of a Winning Healthcare Organization.” The free hour-long webinar will be broadcast on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010 at 1 p.m. EST.
Rod Wilkes, senior vice president of Morehead’s Client…
(ISPE: Tampla, FL) -- ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has announced the release of GAMP Good Practice Guide: Calibration Management, Second Edition, which coincided with the start of the 2010 ISPE Annual Meeting in…
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). NSF International offers a free, 21-question…
(NSF: Ann Arbor, MI) -- NSF International, a provider of global food safety certifications, has launched an online tool to help food companies assess their readiness for certification to standards benchmarked to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI). NSF International offers a free, 21-question…
(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- A public-private organization will provide produce growers and packagers with fundamental, on-farm food safety knowledge, in advance of a proposed produce safety regulation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural…
(Connexall: Boulder, CO) -- Connexall, a leader in enterprise middleware for health care alarm management, lean-enabling workflow automation, and comprehensive reporting, is helping to improve patient satisfaction at one of the nation’s foremost cancer treatment facilities. The technology enables…
(ISPE, Tampa, FL) -- ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, will offer seven training courses, including a session focused on complying with 21 CFR Part 11, at its 2010 ISPE Philadelphia Classroom Training. The event will take…
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ealth care reform, insurance changes, more insured patients, never events, changing reimbursements, accountable care organizations, medical home—what does it all mean? How do we react? How do we keep up with all the changes? The questions are many, and the answers are few, so what do we do…
(Canon Communications: Los Angeles) -- Find out why the BIOMEDevice Exposition and Forum is the trusted resource for medical product development, project acceleration, and learning what’s ahead for medical device technology on Nov. 10–11 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose,…
(ISPE: Tampa, FL) -- ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 22,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, has released a new good practice guide (GPG) titled Product Quality Lifecycle Implementation (PQLI) Guide: Overview of Product Design, Development, and Realization: A…
William Barsan, M.D., chair and director of the U-M Department of Emergency Medicine.
(University of Michigan: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Clinical trials in which participants are randomly assigned to different treatments by design are the cornerstone of clinical…
(Sparta Systems: Holmdel, NJ) -- Despite making strides in improving quality across the supply chain, companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and food and beverage industries still face innumerable challenges in ensuring and maintaining supply quality. To address these challenges, Sparta…
(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is offering a virtual professional development program for middle managers, “Leading Quality Improvement: Essentials for Managers.” This in-depth event provides 11 one-hour sessions beginning Jan. 11 through Aug. 2, 2011, plus…
(Intertek: Hong Kong and Oak Brook, IL) -- Intertek, a global provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world, announces the launch of US CPSIA for iPad, a mobile digital device application for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act for iPad…
(TUV Rheinland of North America: Newtown, CT) -- TÜV Rheinland, a European notified body for numerous European Union (EU) directives, announced a new service guarantee for 10-day turnaround of CE marking certificates for the Medical Device Directive (MDD) of the European Union (EU). Setting a new…
(FPPMM: Naperville, IL) -- In its latest white paper released at The Motivation Show, the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement demonstrates the power of personal contact in the relationship between sales representatives and their customers in the delivery of services. In “What…
(The Quality Group: Atlanta, GA) -- The Quality Group (TQG) has announced the release of The Health Care Series, which is process improvement (lean Six Sigma) training for the health care professional. The newly developed blended e-learning series focuses on condensed class times and highly…
(PharmaNet Development Group: Princeton, NJ) -- PharmaNet Development Group Inc., a provider of drug development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, generic drug, and medical device industries, has released a new survey on pharmaceutical observational research, the fourth in an ongoing…
(National Quality Forum: Washington, D.C.) -- To improve health care safety, the National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed a framework for the public reporting of patient safety events. The framework provides guidance that will standardize an approach to capture and present information about a…
(ISO: Geneva) -- To ensure that medical devices do not irritate the skin or eyes, or cause other adverse reactions, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a testing standard for checking their safety prior to marketing and use.
ISO 10993-10:2010—“Biological…
(Summit Optimization Group LLC: Lizella, GA) -- Summit Optimization Group LLC (Summit OG), a woman-owned consulting firm specializing in the implementation of process improvement methodologies, has announced HEART and HEARTRx for change management with new deployment strategies and leadership…
(Quantros: San Francisco) -- Quantros, a provider of clinically-focused data management and decision support solutions for the health care industry, demonstrated several new patient safety and quality improvement solutions at the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) Annual…
(CAP: Northfield, IL) -- Medical laboratories and health care organizations increasingly face the challenge of needing to do more with less. Yet, the expectation of continuous high quality patient care—which includes competitively priced fees—remains high. To help meet these expectations, the…
(IQware: Cleveland) -- According to globally recognized futurist and innovation expert David Croslin, few circumstances drive innovation faster than being in a state of war. The U.S. health care system is now in a state of war. Consumers, government regulators, and enterprises are demanding change…
(The Delta Group: Greenville, SC) -- CareChex, a division of The Delta Group specializing in rating the quality of hospital and physician care, has released three new studies that reveal broad disparities between the quality of U.S. health care by state and metro area, and surprising regional…