Spreadsheets are synonymous with business. We use them for a variety of tasks, including expense tracking, data entry, basic calculations, data sorting and analysis, presentation creation, graphs and charts, budgeting and accounting, task planning and scheduling, and more. But are they outdated? Is there a better, more time and cost-efficient way to complete these tasks?…
Organizational agility is the ability of a company to react swiftly and effectively to changes in the market, including the supply chain. With the level of change and ambiguity in businesses today, the need for organizational agility and transparency, including in the supply chain, is a requirement for anyone wanting to succeed. Unfortunately, most companies…
Regulated industries face reporting and compliance issues regularly. As products, technologies and market demand changes, so do oversight requirements by governing bodies like the FDA, ISO, HIPAA and other regulatory bodies. Adaptability and speed at which a company, brand or organization can pivot is critical to their long-term success and viability. That is at the…
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…