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Health Education England launches online workshop on improving digital readiness

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Health Education England is launching an online workshop to gather views on digital readiness.

The organisation is working in collaboration with Digital Health and innovation and crowdsourcing agency Clever Together on the online workshop, which forms part of the…

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Added by John Robinson on November 14, 2017 at 5:32am — No Comments

Murj wants to give data collection from implantable medical devices an upgrade

Murj, a new company backed by $4.5 million in new venture financing, is looking to make data collection from implantable heart monitoring and management devices easier and more manageable.

The company was founded by a former Medtronic sales rep who’d previously worked as a product manager on Apple’s iPads. After a few years in sales, Murj founder Todd…

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Added by John Robinson on November 8, 2017 at 5:39am — No Comments

Testing GxP system that is FDA-compliant

Testing GxP system that is FDA-compliant

Process validation is the method of using data from stages ranging from the process design stage to production, to ensure that the process that is being used can deliver consistently high-quality products. Companies that come under the life sciences must comply with GxP regulations to ensure that their processes meet the regulatory guidelines to be GxP compliant.…

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Added by John Robinson on November 8, 2017 at 5:37am — No Comments

Medical records retention and disposition is a complex activity

In a scenario where today’s healthcare environment is fast paced, diverse and straddle many disciplines; retention and disposition of medical records -both paper and electronic -is fraught with complexities. There are different rules set out by the state agencies, as well as by HIPAA statutes and regulations, for the way in which medical records need to be retained…

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Added by Roger Steven on October 11, 2017 at 7:12am — No Comments

What You Need To Know For Validated Systems?

Instances of cyberattacks that lead to disruption of service, data theft or compromise and even ransomware are making the news headlines of late with alarming frequency. Cyberattacks are carried out because computer systems used in highly regulated companies house very sensitive and valuable information.

Data relating to valuable electronic submissions, clinical information, medical device design control records, legal information, and other such information are usually placed in…

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Added by Adam Fleming on October 10, 2017 at 6:26am — No Comments

Clinician stress and burnout related to user of the EHR

The introduction of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has certainly brought about a major change in the way healthcare is administered in this vast country.

EHR's have evolved in a big way from the time they first came to be used in a moderate way in the healthcare industry a few decades ago. From then on, although the push towards making all health records online has been on -and the US economy saves close to $80 billion a year on paper and other aspects -the rate of penetration of…

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Added by Roger Steven on September 21, 2017 at 7:25am — No Comments

A clear process for compliant laboratory OOS investigations

The core of successful operation by a drug maker is laboratory testing. current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) regulations require a drug manufacturer to use laboratory testing as a tool to validate that everything that goes into a laboratory product, such as in-process materials, finished materials, and containers adhere to set specifications. When all these are done, a major challenge for laboratories is in how to deal with a test that shows an…

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Added by Adam Fleming on September 12, 2017 at 5:59am — No Comments

All about Microbial Control, Monitoring, Validation and Troubleshooting of Pharmaceutical Water Systems

All about Microbial Control, Monitoring, Validation and Troubleshooting of Pharmaceutical Water Systems

 

Most pharmaceutical biofilms, especially those in water systems, suffer from one major flaw: misconceptions. Strict and rigid rules for design and operations, especially when they are built on…

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Added by John Robinson on September 4, 2017 at 6:34am — No Comments

Relationship Between an EM Excursion Program and CAPA

The FDA’s regulations on cleanroom environmental monitoring (EM) are based on the assumption that any person who enters a cleanroom is likely and almost certain to have brought contaminants in one or another form with him. The FDA’s regulations on cleanroom environmental monitoring are built on the thinking that microorganisms can assail even the cleanest of systems, which is why its regulations on cleanroom…

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Added by Adam Fleming on August 9, 2017 at 5:39am — No Comments

Advantages and disadvantages of Electronic Health Records

Electronic Health Records (EHR) or electronic medical records (EMR), as they are called, are of enormous use in the fields of healthcare and medical sciences. They have a number of features that enable the patient; the medical professional and the healthcare provider have complete and unimaginably easy access to all important records that relate to the patient.

A direct result of the…

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Added by Roger Steven on June 29, 2017 at 7:52am — No Comments

Establishing Latest Quality Systems in medical device and pharmaceutical industries

Establishing Quality Systems is one of the central aspects of a medical device and/or pharmaceutical organization. Establishment of Quality Systems is also a regulatory requirement, as set out by the FDA and the ISO.

The process of establishment of Quality Systems for FDA-regulated medical devices industries is set out in 21 CFR Part 820. Further, the ISO has its standard for how to establish Quality Systems in medical devices industries –the ISO 13485 standard…

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Added by Adam Fleming on March 28, 2017 at 9:06am — No Comments

What are the functions of computer system validation process?

Computer system validation process is described as the documented procedure which assures that a computer system performs the exact functions it is intended to reproducibly, consistently and verifiably. The computer system validation process covers every function and milestone of the computer system:

  • Development of the system
  • Operation of the system
  • The system’s maintenance
  • Its retirement
  • Archiving…
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Added by Adam Fleming on June 7, 2016 at 2:24am — No Comments

1st Annual Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Biomedical Science and Engineering Conference (BSEC)

Colleagues,



Please see update from MedTechIQ member, Barbara Beckerman on the upcoming 1st Annual ORNL BSEC conference, March 18-19, 2009, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conference Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, near Knoxville, Tennessee in the USA.



ENJOY!



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Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on February 22, 2009 at 10:32am — No Comments

New Member Update - 13 December 2008

A message to all members of MedTechIQ



Colleagues,



We have been joined by new MedTechIQ members. They include:



Academia/ Not For Profit:



Eric Rasmussen, MD, MDM, FACP: Humanitarian medicine, Disaster medicine, public health, outbreak epidemiology, austere communications, collaboration techniques, cross-functional team dynamics



Ron Marchessault: Medical Device Research and Development, Technology Commercialization



Phil Weinfurt:… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on December 13, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

New U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Report: Personalized Health Care: Pioneers, Partnerships, Progress (November 2008)

A message to all members of MedTechIQ



Colleagues,



In one of the last major reports of President's Bush's administration on healthcare, a new report is available for download at: http://www.hhs.gov/myhealthcare/news/phc_2008_report.pdf



The report focuses on a sampling of activities that are now

underway in the private and academic health care sectors toward integrating

personalized health care into clinical practice. This includes efforts to employ… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on November 17, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments

Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy

Check out the Washington Center for Complexity & Public Policy Their raison d'etre is explained as follows:

In the last thirty years a major revolution has occurred in the scientific understanding of complex systems—systems where the components are strongly interrelated, self-organizing and dynamic whether biological, ecological, technical or social—and complexity science represents a new interdisciplinary approach to studying these types of… Continue

Added by Clymer/JR on October 2, 2008 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Chicago Systems Biology Research Funded with $18 Million in Grants!

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded more than $15 million over five years to the University to support the new Chicago Center for Systems Biology.



Researchers will study how networks of genes work together to enable cells and organisms to respond to environmental and genetic change.



The center also represents collaboration among researchers at Chicago-area universities— University of Illinois at… Continue

Added by CC-Conrad Clyburn-MedForeSight on September 25, 2008 at 2:30pm — No Comments

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