A Health Information System (HIS) is a system that manages healthcare data. This covers systems that collect, store, manage, and transmit a patient’s electronic medical record (EMR), a hospital’s operational management or a system supporting healthcare policy decisions.

Reference: https://www.digitalguardian.com/blog/what-health-information-system

westgard rules

The Westgard rules are used for laboratory quality control using “runs” consisting of measurements of multiple samples (typically 2-4 samples), called multi-rule.

The rules were originally developed by James Westgard. The rules are applied to the Levey-Jennings Chart instead of the traditional Shewhart individuals control chart, which uses sli…[Read more]

What are the “Westgard Rules”? How do you use them?
Everything you ever wanted to know (or possibly didn’t) about multirule QC.
Multirules are popularly known in the laboratory as “Westgard Rules.”
Here’s the best place to find out more about them.

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Quality Assurance vs Quality Control

Quality assurance is a systematic process that ensures a product or service meets its specific standard and necessities. This establishes and maintains requirements for developing a manifacturing safe and reliable products. Quality Control on the other hand, is a reactive process that is involved in…[Read more]

Quality control (QC) refers to the set of procedures and protocols designed to monitor and maintain the precision and accuracy of laboratory equipment and testing processes. It involves daily checks, calibration, and verification to confirm that instruments are operating correctly and producing reliable results. Quality control charts, such as…[Read more]

Quality control is a reactive procedure that focuses on finding and fixing flaws with the final product after it has been delivered to customers. Quality assurance is a proactive procedure aimed at ensuring that quality requirements are met before a product or service is distributed to the public.

Quality Assurance vs. Quality…

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