Minimizing Risks

Minimizing risks to drugs.

Sir, Pharmacovigilance is defined as science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug related problem. Over the past century, medicines and vaccines have transformed the practice of modern medicine contributing substantially to reduction in morbidity and increase in life expectancy. However medicines and vaccine use ...

Minimizing Security Risks in Ubicomp Systems

I n the Internet's early days, few people foresaw the emergence of spam, phishing schemes, and mal-ware such as viruses, worms, Tro-jan horses, spyware, and key log-gers that plague users today. We can likewise expect unprecedented privacy and security risks with the widespread deployment of sensor-based systems, wireless networking, and mobile and embedded devices. In 2004, socialite Paris Hil...

Quality assurance for hemodialyzer reprocessing: minimizing risks.

Reprocessing of hemodialyzers is a well-established practice in the United States. In 1999, 80% of the dialysis centers had dialyzer reprocessing programs. Many researchers, including this author, have studied various aspects of performance and quality control for reprocessed hemodialyzers. Much of the literature associated with these studies confirms dialyzer reprocessing can be a safe and eff...

Minimizing ERP Risks with IT Culture

This paper adds to the knowledge on the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It suggests that IT culture might mitigate the risk of ERP system implementation. IT culture in the context of this paper is referred to as the existence and the increase of the unified regulation standardization relating to IT, knowledge-sharing rega...

Minimizing antitrust risks of Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans.