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(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…
(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…
(IBM: Armonk, New York) -- Through the use of service oriented architecture (SOA), health care providers, clinics, and hospitals are set to improve productivity, increase quality, and reduce costs. Sponsored by IBM and a select group of business partners, the health care strategy is based on…
(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…
(AHRQ: Rockville, Maryland) -- According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) 2007 National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report, quality improvement rates are lower than the 3.1 percent average annual improvement rate reported in 2006…
(GOAL/QPC: Salem, New Hampshire) -- GOAL/QPC CEO and founder Bob King will discuss “The Future of Quality, Transformation and Innovation in Healthcare” during WCBF’s seventh annual Lean Six Sigma and Process Improvement in Healthcare Summit, occurring in Las Vegas, April 1–4.
“Health care…
(UCSF: San Francisco) -- The approval process for medical devices doesn’t involve the same rigorous review used for pharmaceuticals, and to improve health outcomes this needs to change, say researchers from the University of California, San Francisco.In the January 2008 issue of the Journal of…
(FDA: Rockville, Maryland) -- In an effort to facilitate stronger cooperative relationships with its counterpart agencies around the world, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to establish eight full-time, permanent positions at U.S. diplomatic posts in the People’s…
(Journal of Supply Chain Management: Clemson, North Carolina) -- A new study from the Journal of Supply Chain Management illustrates the real potential for contamination of globally sourced foods and proposes a conceptual framework of supply chain quality management.Led by Aleda V. Roth of…
(Modulo: New York) -- In an effort to streamline its risk assessment and compliance processes, New York University Medical Center has selected the Modulo Risk Manager, an automated information tool.As one of the nation’s largest research and academic medical centers, NYUMC is subject to…
(NCQA: Washington, DC) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance launched a new version of its Physician Practice Connections (PPC) program designed to assess how medical practices are functioning as patient-centered medical homes. The new Physician Practice Connections—Patient-Centered…
(ScripNet: Las Vegas) - To ease the availability of prescription medications to injured workers, ScripNet, a pharmacy benefits manager, is saving time and money with its innovative Call Ahead Program.“We launched the Call Ahead Program over a year ago to make it easier on the injured worker, to…
(Siemens Healthcare: Orlando, Florida) -- Siemens health care data-mining tool, Soarian Quality Measures, replaces time-consuming manual chart reviews with highly accurate and automated chart abstraction of quality measures, as defined by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and The…
(EBRI: Wasington, D.C.) -- A relatively new health plan model that advocates hope will control rising health spending could fail if key consumer education initiatives prove ineffective, according to a study recently published by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute.The study,…
(AM2 PAT Inc.: Angier, North Carolina) -- A nationwide recall of Heparin and Saline prefilled flushes manufactured by AM2 PAT was issued by AM2 PAT. These products are distributed under two brand names, Sierra Pre-Filled Inc. and B. Braun. These products are sold in 3-ml and 5-ml sizes for Heparin…
(Calypte Biomedical Corp: Portland, Oregon) -- Calypte Biomedical Corp., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of HIV diagnostic tests, recently announced that the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA)—the equivalent of the U.S. FDA—has notified Calypte’s Chinese manufacturing…
(Advanstar: Iselin, New Jersey) -- The Institute of Validation Technology, a division of Advanstar Communications, will host the “Computer Systems Validation in FDA-Regulated Industries” conference in Baltimore, Maryland, April 29–May 2. The conference will provide updated interactive…
(Unigene Laboratories Inc: Fairfield, New Jersey) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a modification for a key enzyme, the first of two proposed improvements for Unigene Laboratories Inc.’s patented manufacturing process for calcitonin, the active ingredient in Fortical, a…