EyeQualify: Advancing Quality Through Collaboration
Eye banking operates in a highly regulated environment where quality, safety, and documentation integrity are essential. At the same time, eye banks face increasing administrative demands – often driven by duplicative processes that add burden without improving outcomes.
EyeQualify is an EBAA-led initiative designed to streamline these processes through centralized, standardized programs that support efficiency while preserving each organization’s independent regulatory responsibilities.
Through EyeQualify, EBAA offers coordinated programs that reduce redundancy, improve access to critical documentation, and promote transparency across the eye banking community. These programs are administrative in nature and are not certifications, endorsements, or regulatory approvals.
Vendor Quality Documentation Review Program
The Vendor Quality Documentation Review Program provides a centralized, standardized approach for vendors to submit core quality system and regulatory documentation that eye banks can access to satisfy their annual vendor oversight obligations. EBAA conducts a documentation-based review using published criteria and makes the materials securely available to member eye banks.
This program reduces duplicative documentation requests, improves consistency in review processes, and supports more efficient interactions between eye banks and vendors, while maintaining each eye bank’s independent responsibility for vendor qualification and regulatory compliance.
Shipping Validation Repository Program
The Shipping Validation Repository Program is a voluntary initiative where EBAA member eye banks can upload completed shipping validation reports so others can access and use them, reducing duplication of effort and promoting consistency across the profession. EBAA serves as a secure repository and facilitator for these documents but does not re-perform validations, certify results, or guarantee regulatory acceptance — participating eye banks remain responsible for compliance.
Eye banks using shared validations must ensure their shipping processes match the original in every material detail AND verify the validation. Any deviation requires a new validation.
