ISO’s Paranoia Limits ISO 9001’s Acceptance
by Christopher Paris VP Operations, Oxebridge The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) provides guidance information on "Publicizing your ISO 9001:2008 or ISO 14001:2004 Certification." Unfortunately, the organization's typical...
Registrars Would Benefit From A Customer Perspective – Part 2
by Christopher Paris VP Operations, Oxebridge Quality Resources International (Read part 1 of this article here.) The Client's View The ISO 9001 end user has very valuable insight which should be taught not only to the auditor pools of registrars, but to their top...
Registrars Would Benefit From A Customer Perspective – Part 1
by Christopher Paris VP Operations, Oxebridge Quality Resources International In my 23 years of working with ISO 9001, the past 12 of which have been as an Implementation Specialist and trainer with Oxebridge, I have always seen a disconnect between the thinking...
ACHC: Earthquake? Tsunami? Call Your Diabetic Strip Supplier!
by Christopher Paris VP Operations, Oxebridge Quality Resources International The Accreditation Commission for Healthcare (ACHC) has released an entirely revamped set of standards for durable medical equipment (DME) companies who must be accredited in order to bill...
CRE’s Levinson Gets it Right: DME Competitive Bidding is “Job Crushing”
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 Effectiveness...
ACHC Proves a “Model” For Complaints Handling – Registrars Should Listen
By Christopher Paris VP Operations Recently, for what is nothing more than coincidence, Oxebridge has file a few complaints against registrars in the ISO 9001 world. This seems to happen in spasms, and there's no rhyme or reason to it, with the exception that...
Why CMMI Will Overtake ISO 9001 – and How to Prevent It
By Christopher Paris, VP Operations In the software world, under a contract from the Department of Defense, Carnegie Mellon University launched a quality management system for software developers called the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and then gave administration...
Seven Reasons Why “ISO 9001 Template Kits” Don’t Work
Winter Haven FL -- A number of online companies offer "ISO-in-a-box" solutions to implementing ISO 9001, packaging a number of documents and forms that have been pre-written as boilerplate templates, with the thinking that if you just customize them yourself, you will...