October 2018 Blog Posts (8)

A medical device inspection. Ah! Is there a more dreaded exercise for a medical device manufacturer? If I were given a choice between taking up the world’s toughest rated examination and facing a medical device inspection, I would gladly opt for the former. A medical device inspection should rank right there ahead of the most difficult examination or task.

Alright. We knew this fact all along. So, why should I intimidate you by casting such aspersions on a medical device inspection?…

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a US legislation that was enacted under the HITECH Act under Bill Clinton’s presidency with the intention of offering safeguards for medical information through its data privacy and security provisions. The Act consists of five sections. Also called titles, they are these:

• HIPAA Health Insurance Reform
• HIPAA Administrative Simplification
• HIPAA…

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Trade and logistics, despite its relatively recent development, has gone on to become a global one. It is one of the many industries that have benefited in immeasurable ways by the growth of technology and globalization. It is no exaggeration to say that trade and logistics has exploded following these developments.

First, a basic understanding of the two:…

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Information Technology (IT), which has traversed and influenced almost every area known to the human mind, has made a solid impact on healthcare. The healthcare industry in the US is the world’s largest, with some estimates putting its size at $ three trillion. Information Technology is an extremely useful and enabling tool in an industry of such proportions. Healthcare IT is now being considered a specialized branch of IT.

The role of IT in healthcare

IT works in innumerable ways in… Continue

Microsoft Excel is a wonder package, and in saying this, I am not exaggerating or taking sides with Mr. Gates’s developers. They have created a program that is so versatile and so tailor-made for just so many industries that you would wonder from where they got the idea to do this. I reckon they must have worked extensively with the industry closely in understanding its needs and implemented all the details with devilish diligence.…

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Wondering if you should attend clinical compliance trainings? The following paragraphs will explain to you the criticality of clinical compliance trainings. We hope this article will help you understand why you should attend clinical compliance trainings.

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Formally known as the “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act” in the US Senate and as the “Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act” in the House of Representatives, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) is a landmark legislation that the American Congress passed in 2002. Named for the sponsors of this Bill, senators Paul Sarbanes and Mike Oxley, it was passed in the wake of the financial scandals of huge American…

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The food and beverages industry, a global one, is an interesting bag of surprising and often contradicting facts. The food and beverages industry is a really global one, meaning there is almost no place on this planet that this industry does not cover. You are as likely to find a food joint in Mongolia as you are in Mozambique. The reason is simple: we can live without many things, but not without food. Any surprise that this industry is a giant,…

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