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Equipment management is, fundamentally, the process of monitoring, managing, and maintaining assets and non-motorized equipment. Equipment management is a necessary process to maintain the safety, reliability, and availability of integral equipment. Proper implementation of equipment management delivers added benefits of extending the useful life of equipment as well as maximizing its effectiveness. Proper Equipment Maintenance…

Among the many things the COVID-19 pandemic exposed are the limitations of what, until now, has been almost exclusively a face-to-face model of patient care. Early during the pandemic, the challenges of protecting patients and essential workers while concurrently managing healthcare needs of individuals and the chronically ill proved itself perilous and exhausting. It didn’t…

Are you benchmarking your organization in the best way possible? Are you tracking almost the exact metrics everyone else is tracking? Are you consistently measuring, monitoring and communicating your Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that drive performance in your blood center? Do you counterbalance your KPIs for maximum effect? As we work with blood centers to…

The new year is here, which leads us on the PERFEQTA team to ask, “What’s next?” The technology community made great shifts and strides in the last year alone, paving the way for even more exciting developments in 2019. We have picked out a few tech trends that we predict will take center stage in the year…

It has been a little more than a week since I attended the ISO 9000 World Conference in Nashville, TN. The conference was full of great people and great companies. I loved hearing what everyone had to say about the revisions to ISO, general QMS standards, and what changes people are implementing to become more…

There is a conception out there that automation only equates to a reduction in human capital. Our experience and goal as a software manufacturer are to facilitate the highly skilled worker’s production through automation of necessary but primarily unrelated tasks associated with their job so that they can focus on the work for which they…

As we close out another year, I thought I would take some time to reflect on 2016 not only on an industry level but also on a level much closer to home. For the past decade, our company has been almost solely committed to developing products specifically for transfusion medicine. This has been not only…

Most change implementation methods concede that change is difficult and complex. This is due to the identification of the need for change having to be initiated by a human and it is not a completely automatable structure or process. Therefore, involving people early on when discussing implementing a change to a process, and continuously adjusting…

As we are preparing to speak at the Southeastern Area Blood Bankers Conference in Atlanta and the ISO World Conference in Nashville, it has become apparent how incredible a software PERFEQTA is. Our software isn’t just about Quality Management. This solution can be used to manage equipment, schedule competency assessments, administer surveys, manage nonconformances, and so much…

This week, I would like to share five key points that I read online in an article about change management principles. The principles discussed in the article connected in my mind to the same principles that my team always keeps in mind when we are working together and working with a client: 1. At all…