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Is Your Consultant Qualified?

Healthcare businesses are subject to much regulation and its accompanying scrutiny by various governmental agencies. FDA, DEA, and so on.
It may not be such a good idea to hire in just anyone to advise you on your project.

Why?

Because even this area, consultants, are regulated under federal law:

The regulations go on to state that you must retain records about the usage of consulting services including the consultant's name, address, qualifications, and what services they provide.

We'd like to suggest that you do not utilize your equipment vendor for a consultant. Many of these folks are order-taking box-sellers. That may be a little harsh, but believe us when we say that we spend a great deal of time with firms that suffered from the misinformation that unqualified people provided.

Bar Code technology can be used to bring the computer forward into the caregiving process to automate data collection and quality control activities.  But if it is not implemented correctly it can create more errors that it corrects.  This is one of the facts about bar codes that the 'Plug and Play' set would like to ignore.

Does your everday bar code equipment vendor know:

• The concerns of a regulated healthcare business?
• Risk factors as they relate to patient safety?
• What cGMP's are?
• What SOP's are?
• What the error rates and probability factors are concerning bar codes?
• The principles of quality assurance?
• The Federal Regulations relating to your business?

We doubt that they do.

It is not enough that they sell the technology. They need to know how it applies to healthcare.

Don't play the lottery with patients' lives:  Murphy's Laws apply the same as Newton's Laws.

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