can I throw in two penn'orth on this...
can the title for this discussion thread please be changed to Quality Management system software.
We should be focusing on a more holistic approach to quality and by restricting discussion to document control only it gives the impression that we are rather more blinkered in our attitudes to quality than is actually the case.
After all, document control is only one element of a quality management system.
We have much to learn from the rest of the quality world. I suggest a quick surf of the web to see what's going on.
I'm in favour of secure web based document viewing but it's still probably necessary to have a paper copy for work on the bench. It's not easy to work from a computer screen and PCs in labs are usually at the end of the bench - if they're close by at all.
Can I request that mailbase members do not try to 'sell' their own system. We all have our preferences for quality management software, these are under continual improvement and what was the best system three or four years ago may now have been overtaken by other systems which are now available.
Jonathan has suggested a conference on this, I support him in this venture.
We in Leeds/Bradford have spent a long time looking at software and I feel I am in a position to advise malbase mebers that any attempt to carry out a comprehensive survey of the available systems is a mammoth task and could be likened to running a marathon in soft sand - in flip-flops.
Lynn Turnbull
Lynn Turnbull
Quality Co-ordinator
Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology
Old Medical School
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds
LS1 3EX
Phone : 0113 392 3947
Fax : 0113 343 5672
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