As we may disagree about the impact of the FDA’s regulations in our community, we cannot disagree with the premises that patient’s safety is the top priority for all of us in this community. As such, hospitals, Independent Service Organizations and others must have a Compliance Officer and a Compliance Program to assure the goals of patient safety is accomplished.

Every institution, service company, manufacturer, accreditation body, physicists and others must meet the goal and have in place a compliance program and compliance officer that knows the regulations, knows where information can be found to aid in decision-making and performs the job of compliance to assure patient safety.

If this community is going to move forward and solve many of the issues and problems that confront all of us on a daily basis, we cannot do that without a program and a goal. Patient safety is the goal and that can only be reached by compliance.