by Christopher Paris | Jan 24, 2011 | Opinion |
Washington DC — In a refreshingly blunt and honest critique of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate that providers of durable medical equipment (DME) undergo a “competitive bidding process”, watchdog group Center for Regulatory...
by Christopher Paris | Sep 13, 2017 | Opinion |
There are more than a few dirty secrets in the ISO certification scheme, but one of the most nefarious is that of nepotism. In this context, I am talking about improper relationships between accredited registrars (certification bodies, or “CBs”) and...
by Christopher Paris | Jul 19, 2017 | Opinion |
A dutiful reader noted that I hadn’t written a blog posting since last month, and he thought the site was broken. The truth is there is a lot of new material coming, mostly with guidance documents, and they are taking a long time to write. So the site’s...
by OQRI | May 19, 2017 | News |
UPDATED – see below. G-PMC Registrars operators Daryl Guberman and Don LaBelle may be waking up to a new headache this morning. The two certificate mill operators have run what appear to be dozens of phony press releases, issued through LaBelle’s...
by Christopher Paris | Mar 18, 2017 | Opinion |
Beleaguered ISO speaker William Levinson is making a fuss over a parody graphic we ran some time ago, which commented on ISO’s impossible-to-comply-with copyright policies, while mashing it up with a Microsoft ad that was running abound the same time. He’s...
by Christopher Paris | Feb 2, 2017 | Opinion |
[Full disclosure: William A. Levinson has since filed a defamation suit in Florida court prompted, in part, by this review, which originally appeared on Amazon. He then engaged in a months-long defamation campaign in which he operated a number of Bahamas-based...
by Christopher Paris | Jan 15, 2017 | Humor |
As you know, nearly every leader within the US TAG to TC 176 (the committee that develops ISO 9001) has published at least one book and multiple seminars on ISO 9001:2015, right after they secretly boasted about the new standard being “the biggest boon to...
by Christopher Paris | Aug 11, 2016 | Opinion |
The marketers as Jack West’s American Quality Institute (AQI) seem to have been born without the necessary organs that detect irony, since their latest promotion is to include a free set of noise-cancelling headphones if you attend an ISO 9001 seminar given by...
by Christopher Paris | Feb 13, 2016 | Opinion |
Every year we have to suffer through the marketing blitz of Sermin Vanderbilt’s annual ISO 9001 conference, which is just another part of the US TAG 176 consultant wing’s self-promotion machine. This year, coming off the ISO 9001:2015 revision, marks the...
