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<title><![CDATA[IQS Consulting Business Profile]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.iqsconsulting.net/iqs-business-profile.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Product Offerings:

    * Quality and Environmental Management Systems Development
    * Training (Management/Employee Overview, Internal Auditing, Documentation Workshops, Quality Systems)
    * Consulting
    * Documentation Development/Refinement
    * System Auditing
    * Pre-Assessments (Mock Surveys)
    * Continuous Improvement
    * Strategic Business Planning
    * Business Process Mapping and Re-engineering
    * Corrective Action Training (Root Cause Analysis)
    * Executive Assimilation Training
    * Assessment of Departmental and/or Organizational Performance
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<title><![CDATA[What are the applications for ISO 9001 in Healthcare]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.iqsconsulting.net/applications-of-iso9001-to-healthcare.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using the ISO Family of Standards, the organization can establish a comprehensive Quality / Business Management System which:

    * Provides a solid basis for compliance with all imposed requirements (e.g., JCAHO, AABB, Federal & State regulations).
    * Makes all other certification & accreditation processes easier and less costly.
    * Facilitates improved understanding of roles & responsibilities among employees; and enhanced communication/coordination between departments.
    * Requires the establishment of measurable improvement objectives and accountability to those objectives through monitoring/measuring and reporting.
    * Results in improved systems, processes, and outcomes.
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<title><![CDATA[ISO 9001 Consulting and Training]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Proven Benefits of ISO 9001:2000 for Healthcare Organizations]]></title>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.iqsconsulting.net/healthcare-iso9001.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complying with the ISO 9001 Standard does not indicate that every product or service meets requirements, only that the quality system in use is capable of meeting them.

ISO 9001 requirements describe what must be done to make up a quality system, not how to set it up.

Once ISO 9001 is implemented, the very nature of the process ensures continual quality improvement, whereby problems and process variations are dealt with quickly and permanently. With periodic audits to monitor continued compliance, there is relatively little interruption in the delivery of care. ]]></description>
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