Quality of Nation’s Healthcare ‘Fair’ But Slowly Improving
For the 11th consecutive year, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released complementary reports that assess the U.S. healthcare system’s performance in the areas of healthcare quality, access, and disparities in care.
Is Your Medical Device ‘State of the Art?’
Not knowing the answer to the question posed in the title of this article has led many medical device manufacturers to undertake expensive and unnecessary retesting of their previously certified products.
Recipe for Success: Food Safety Regulations and the Role of Quality Management
Editor’s note: A webinar on this topic will held on May 29, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. Eastern / 11:00 a.m. Pacific. Register here.
For the Good of the Community
In health care settings, clinical integration is a fairly new concept that means coordinating patient care across conditions, providers, settings, and time to achieve care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient-focused.
The Beginning of the End for Fake ISO 13485 Certificates
Many of us have heard horror stories about ISO certificates that were fakes, or of medical-device quality system audits being performed by persons who were not competent.
