Quality Management Systems that Comply with ISO13485:2016

Course Description:

The Course "Quality Management Systems that Comply with ISO13485:2016" has been pre-approved by RAPS as eligible for up to 12 credits towards a participant's RAC recertification upon full completion.

ISO 13485:2016 indicates prerequisites for a quality administration framework where an association needs to exhibit its capacity to give medical devices and related administrations that reliably meet client and relevant administrative necessities. Such associations can be included in at least one phase of the life-cycle, including plan and advancement, creation, stockpiling and circulation, establishment, or overhauling of a restorative device and outline and improvement or arrangement of related exercises (e.g. specialized support).

Prerequisites of ISO 13485:2016 are relevant to associations paying little heed to their size and paying little mind to their sort with the exception of where expressly expressed. Wherever prerequisites are indicated as applying to restorative devices, the necessities apply similarly to related administrations as provided by the association. 

The procedures required by ISO 13485:2016 that are pertinent to the association, yet are not performed by the association, are the obligation of the association and are represented in the association's quality administration framework by checking, keeping up and controlling the procedures. 

On the off chance that appropriate administrative necessities allow prohibitions of plan and improvement controls, this can be utilized as a defense for their avoidance from the quality administration framework. These administrative prerequisites can give elective methodologies that are to be tended to in the quality administration framework. It is the obligation of the association to guarantee that cases of adjustment to ISO 13485:2016 mirror any rejection of plan and improvement controls.

For a long time, ahead of schedule in the life of ISO 9001 and ISO 13485, it took a ton of instruction with respect to ISO examiners to show organizations the contrast between Corrections (settling the issue) and Corrective Actions, fixing the underlying driver of the issue. Organizations have now taken in these definitions truly well. In any case, the Corrective Action and Preventive Action (CAPA) framework frequently do not cover rectification and control activities identified with CAPAs. Adjustments for item issues are generally being done under different bits of ISO 13485, for example, control of nonconforming item and client criticism and grievances. These regularly have the little visibility in the Corrective Action framework, and by and large, don't address at all containing or rectifying quality framework issues that are frequently a noteworthy part of a CAPA framework. So now ISO evaluators, or if nothing else ISO 13485 Notified Body reviewers, are expecting that organizations record and give prove that they are doing regulation as well as rectifications, totally and rapidly. 

Join Lena Cordie  in this interactive workshop to get detailed guidance on how to develop, implement and maintain strategies in order to achieve a specific goal. This session will include lectures, round table discussions and activities all aimed at understanding key strategies and identifying specific actions to effectively improve Quality Management System Compliance.

Achieving Immunity under Health Care Quality Improvement Act

Quality Improvement Act and how to implement those provisions?  The Healthcare Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) is a federal law that was enacted to create a national tracking system of physicians with a history of medical malpractice payments or adverse actions. This Act is meant to protect the public from spam physicians by allowing those physicians on peer review committees to communicate in an open and honest environment and thus removing incompetent physicians, without the specter of a retaliatory lawsuit by the reviewed physician. Attend this training program “The Healthcare QualityImprovement Act: How to achieve Immunity in Your Peer Review Process” by William Mack Copeland, to gain an understanding of how the HCQIA protects your organization and on those who participate in the peer review process in your organization. You will also gain an appreciation of the actions that are required to perfect HCQIA immunity. Failure to take the appropriate actions and to follow the correct protocol can result in confusion.

Key Learning Objectives

·         The Health Care Quality Improvement Act

·         Legislative history of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act and the intent of Congress

·         Immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act

·         Standards required to achieve immunity under the Health Care Quality Improvement Act

·         Review of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act by the courts

      Register for this webinar at: The Healthcare QualityImprovement Act: How to achieve Immunity in Your Peer Review Process