I'm the CTO of a software company in Fairfax VA that has a tied together software suite of biomedical, lab safety/inspection, inventory mgmt, EHR and EMR tools. Our big clients are the NIH/FDA/USDA/HHS.
I've seen it all, though from a safer vantage point. The researchers and scientists I've been in contact with have been top notch. The problem we see is enforcement of process, or at least a strong resistance against anything that gets in the way of real work. Remember the NIH smallpox find when researchers were moving to the new FDA campus? Guess whos software was to be used to inspect that particular lab. Guess who walked by that lab a ton? *shudder* The root cause was obviously a breach of process.
Sorry to be a sales pitch but this is the stuff I think about and implement. It hits close to home. We track cradle to grave every vial, batch, user, experiment, occupational hazard, accidents involved and inspections to ensure process is enforced and any breach of process can be tracked to the exact point of time when failure occurred.
Keep safe.
Side note, y'all want to buy our software?!;-)
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I'm the CTO of a software company in Fairfax VA that has a tied together software suite of biomedical, lab safety/inspection, inventory mgmt, EHR and EMR tools. Our big clients are the NIH/FDA/USDA/HHS. I've seen it all, though from a safer vantage point. The researchers and scientists I've been in contact with have been top notch. The problem we see is enforcement of process, or at least a strong resistance against anything that gets in the way of real work. Remember the NIH smallpox find when researchers were moving to the new FDA campus? Guess whos software was to be used to inspect that particular lab. Guess who walked by that lab a ton? *shudder* The root cause was obviously a breach of process. Sorry to be a sales pitch but this is the stuff I think about and implement. It hits close to home. We track cradle to grave every vial, batch, user, experiment, occupational hazard, accidents involved and inspections to ensure process is enforced and any breach of process can be tracked to the exact point of time when failure occurred. Keep safe. Side note, y'all want to buy our software?! ;-)