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(Octagon Research Solutions Inc.: Wayne, Pennsylvania) -- Octagon Research Solutions Inc., a provider of software and services to the life sciences industry, has announced a new service offering, CheckPoint. The new service provides more than 300 separate validation checks of electronic…
The parties are meeting on the week of June 23 in Annapolis, Maryland, as part of the fourth session under the United States-China strategic economic dialogue (SED).
“Today's progress report reflects strong and sustained cooperation by both nations to strengthen the safety of food products…
(HHS: Washington, D.C.) -- Efforts are underway at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve patient safety and the quality of medical care through a plan called “The Sentinel Initiative—A National Strategy for Monitoring Medical…
(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois) -- The Joint Commission recently announced the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for each of its accreditation programs and its Disease-Specific Care Certification Program.
The National Patient Safety Goals promote…
(ISO: Geneva) -- A new edition of ISO 9001 is being submitted for voting as a final draft international standard. Subject to formal approval by the ISO membership, the publication of the revised version is expected to be published this fall.
The proposed ISO 9001:2008 doesn’t introduce additional…
(HHS: Washington, D.C.) -- Efforts are underway at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve patient safety and the quality of medical care through a plan called “The Sentinel Initiative—A National Strategy for Monitoring Medical…
(HHS: Washington, D.C.) -- U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Mike Leavitt has signed a joint progress statement with the Honorable Li Changjiang, Minister of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection, and Quarantine (AQSIQ) of the People’s Republic of China.…
(Octagon Research Solutions Inc.: Wayne, Pennsylvania) -- Octagon Research Solutions Inc., a provider of software and services to the life sciences industry, has announced a new service offering, CheckPoint. The new service provides more than 300 separate validation checks of electronic…
(AHIP: Washington, D.C.)-- The U.S. could reduce total health care spending and improve the quality of patient care if the plan recently proposed by America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is implemented. PricewaterhouseCoopers reviewed AHIP’s proposals and estimates, and concluded that if…
(NQF: Washington, D.C.) -- Recognizing that patient safety remains a major hurdle in the United States, the National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsed 48 voluntary consensus standards focused on measuring the performance of acute-care hospitals, including measures addressing pediatric safety, hospital…
(NCQA: Washington, D.C.) -- The Quality Crossroads Group, a group of stakeholders drawn together to identify strategies to address the complex challenges confronting the United States health care system, recently proposed a five-point agenda that examines quality in patient safety, the…
(Medtral: Auckland, New Zealand) -- With a growing number of international medical travelers concerned about hospital accreditation, Medtral New Zealand, a health care organization based in New Zealand that coordinates medical travel packages from North America, addresses some of the pressing…
(FDA: Rockville, Maryland) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking a $2.2 million penalty against a California hearing device manufacturer, Advanced Bionics LLC and its president and co-CEO, Jeffrey H. Greiner, for violations of federal law, including manufacturing standards…
(CBI: Woburn, Massachusetts) -- As the Food and Drug Administration continues to increase their monitoring of adverse events and product complaints, it’s even more critical for quality assurance departments to stay current on best practices and benchmark with peers. CBI’s sixth annual Product…
(NSF International: Ann Arbor, Michigan) – The 2008 version of NSF’s American National Standard for Dietary Supplements now includes new good manufacturing practices (GMP) requirements to ensure consistency with the U. S. Food and Drug Administration’s regulations. The new version of NSF/ANSI…
(HHS: Washington, D.C.) -- The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services stated that efforts are underway between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve patient safety and the quality of medical care.“This initiative will…
(CMS: Baltimore, Maryland) -- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking steps to encourage physicians and other eligible professionals to take part in the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI), a program designed to improve the quality of care provided to Medicare…
(American College of Physicians: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) -- More than a dozen U.S. specialty health-care organizations joined the four major primary care physicians’ professional groups to endorse the seven-point Joint Principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).The PCMH offers…
(OHSU: Portland, Oregon) -- A recent study, “Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics,” by William Hersh, M.D., professor and chair of the department of medical informatics and clinical epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), says a 40 percent hike in information…
CRO Completes Multinational Training Program for Principal Investigators from China, Duke University
Lisa Mazurka and the clinical investigators involved in the training is available
(Clinical Research Consulting Inc.: Boston, Massachusetts) -- Clinical Research Consulting Inc., a contract research organization (CRO) specializing in clinical monitoring, project management, education and…
(Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine: Iselin, New Jersey) – QPEC’s Annual Quality and Process Excellence Conference will be held from July 21-23 at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. The conference is sponsored by Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine. This case study-driven…
(Research and Markets: Dublin, Ireland) – A Frost & Sullivan research service titled “Automation and Control Solutions in the European Pharmaceutical Market” provides an analysis of the various factors driving and restraining the market, revenue forecasts, geographic trends and…
(Washington, D.C.) — Republican senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa has asked for an independent assessment of how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) follows up on the effects of medicines that it approves based on narrowly defined benefits.“The way things have turned out with drugs like…
(Zimmer Holdings Inc.: Warsaw, Indiana) -- Zimmer Holdings Inc. has recently taken a number of actions to improve quality systems at its Dover, Ohio, facility, which manufactures Zimmer Orthopedic Surgical Products (OSP). Zimmer recently conducted a review of quality systems at the Dover, Ohio…
(Tefen USA: New York) -- The imminent surge of more than 70 million aging baby boomers could overwhelm the U.S. health care system and engulf the nation’s tenuous economy, according to “Will the Boom Bust Health Care?” a new study by management consulting firm Tefen USA. A recent report from…