11th June 2008, 01:20 am by David Rhoads
Welcome to our blog. Its purpose is to promote discussion between us (Rhoads Associates) and you (our users) on topics relevant to clinical laboratory quality issues and/or EP Evaluator. Our goal is to publish at least one new article each month, and to monitor the forum and respond to user’s questions promptly.
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We look forward to your feedback, thoughts, and comments. After all, the purpose of our software is to help you stay on top of your Quality Assurance issues.
David G. Rhoads
President
13th July 2008, 07:01 pm by Marilyn Fleming
We are now planning EP Evaluator 9, scheduled for release at AACC 2009. Our goal is to add at least three new statistical modules or major features. Here are some enhancement candidates. What would you like to see? »more…
5th June 2008, 10:12 am by Marilyn Fleming
Significant changes were made to Incident Tracking in spring 2008 (EE8, builds 100 and 103). The biggest change you will see is that, after upgrading to Build 100 you will be asked for a user id and password each time you run Incident Tracking. On first use, enter an id of admin, and leave the password blank. Then choose File / Administer Users from the menu to assign users and passwords. If you don’t want to set up a user list, simply instruct all users to enter an id of admin and leave the password blank. Other changes are summarized below. »more…
4th June 2008, 09:23 am by Marilyn Fleming
The Two Instrument Comparison (2IC) module, introduced in EP Evaluator Release 7, is made-to-order for semi-annual comparison of in-service instruments. You get a pass/fail answer, with no slopes, intercepts, or correlation coefficients to interpret. »more…
21st May 2008, 11:52 am by Marilyn Fleming
How much time do you spend typing experimental results into EP Evaluator? Do you already have those same results in Excel? If you do, there may be an easier, faster, and more reliable way – copy from Excel, paste to EP Evaluator. »more…
1st July 2007, 02:13 pm by Marilyn Fleming
Rhoads Associates is strongly committed to providing a quality product at a reasonable price. Our quality approach has two central themes: experience, and testing. »more…
29th July 2006, 06:50 am by David Rhoads
A task that is often performed in Hemostasis labs is definition of the reference interval for APTT based on a linear regression evaluation relative to heparin concentrations. It is similar in many ways to a method comparison evaluation but is different in several significant ways. This can be done easily using EP Evaluator as follows: »more…
7th July 2006, 12:55 pm by Marilyn Fleming
No, this isn’t about how smart Rhoads Associates is. In the Quality Management world, IQ isn’t Intelligence Quotient. It’s an acronym for Installation Qualification. Installation Qualification “ensures that an instrument is received as designed and specified. It documents the installation in the selected user environment.” In this case, the instrument in question is EP Evaluator (EE). This article is targeted more to the Information Technology staff than to the end user. It addresses
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