The medtech industry faces a unique challenge – how do you maintain compliance with some of the most stringent regulatory regimes in the world, while operating with an international scope? How does the industry provide training and certification to ensure its customers are legally all-clear, across potentially dozens of jurisdictions, each with their own rules and requirements?
Let’s take a look at the medtech industry’s relationship with compliance training, and how Administrate has partnered with Siemens Healthineers to make this critical process more efficient by leveraging training data.
Challenges Facing Medtech L&D
Major medtech providers like Siemens Healthineers have to ensure that all of their global customers receive the training needed to operate life-saving medical equipment without an issue. But unfortunately, managing such a complex training operation often creates inefficiencies for the training teams.
For example, in order to provide training that’s both geographically accessible and tailored to local regulations, a strategy of autonomous country training hubs and centers is common. But while giving these local hubs the autonomy to adapt and operate in their unique environments ensures compliance, it can also make coordinating global training operations difficult.
Managing and leveraging data across these hubs can also be a huge challenge when the tech stack isn’t optimized. Multiple databases, differences in content and materials between training centers, and a lack of integration between tools can create difficulties for companies like Siemens Healthineers in accessing and utilizing training data.
Medtech and the Administrate Platform
Administrate provides a platform for managing not just training, but managing the whole software ecosystem of L&D. That makes it a great match for a sector like medtech that needs to coordinate between lots of smaller units that still have to retain autonomy.
What does that look like in practice?
Standardizing Course and Content Management
Administrate provides options for standardization on the back-end that make it easier to support a diverse ecosystem of content on the front-end. For example, a medical equipment trainer in the United States and another in Europe might need to deliver content to different specifications in order to remain compliant. But with Administrate, that content can be managed through a common template that’s designed to feed into Administrate’s data model.
These course templates are the building blocks of Administrate’s capabilities as a platform. By standardizing the way that courses and resources are created, booked, and handled by the system, Administrate can help medtech companies create an environment where data from two training hubs on opposite sides of the earth can still be easily compared and handled together thanks to a common format.
Data Access and Management
Training data is the most powerful resource that an L&D team has available, but if the tech stack isn’t structured to handle it effectively, that data can become difficult to access and utilize. This is particularly a problem if there are large numbers of separate software systems working in conjunction with each other without effective integration. Data simply won’t flow through a tech stack that hasn’t been designed to make data access simple.
Administrate can serve as a central hub for integrating the training tech stack and ensuring full access to data. An Administrate instance can unify the technology stacks working at different training centers around the world, and then provide central control over the data generated by all of the tools in use.
Administrate’s no-code reporting engine and document management system ensure full visibility into how learners, instructors, resources, and content are being utilized within your system. Not only can that make establishing a paper trail and ensuring compliance substantially easier, but it also makes accessing and analyzing data about the learner experience much easier, too. In an industry where improving training outcomes can quite literally save lives, that’s no small feat.
An Infrastructure Solution to Medtech L&D
Medtech training teams around the world have to be able to depend on their software as they navigate complex requirements while imparting knowledge that has life-and-death stakes. Administrate is proud to be a partner in ensuring that medtech L&D teams don’t just have tools that work, they have an L&D software infrastructure for managing and leveraging their courses and data to standardize operations, integrate their technology stacks, scale and expand with confidence, and, most importantly, to continuously improve the learner experience and learner outcomes.
For the past few years, Administrate has been partnering with leading medtech provider Siemens Healthineers to help them rationalize their global training operations. To learn more, take a look at our case study on Siemens Healthineers and how they’ve used Administrate to streamline and scale their approach to L&D.
