Mon, 08/06/2007 - 22:00
(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently updated its online Quality Compass, the nation’s most widely used database of health-plan performance. Quality Compass includes NCQA accreditation, Health Plan Employer and…
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 22:00
Twenty-three soldiers, airmen, and civilian employees of the Georgia department of defense have graduated from the inaugural course of a hands-on, continuous process improvement program called lean Six Sigma (LSS). The graduates all earned their…
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 22:00
(LEI: Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- Middle management resistance to change is now the No. 1 obstacle to implementing lean production, according to a survey conducted by the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit management research center.…
Tue, 07/31/2007 - 22:00
(Prentice Hall: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey) -- Treasure Chest of Six Sigma Growth Methods, Tools, and Best Practices is a comprehensive how-to collection of Six Sigma tools, methodologies, and best practices. Lynne Hambleton covers the…
Mon, 07/30/2007 - 22:00
(IAIDQ: Lutz, Florida) -- The International Association for Information and Data Quality recently announced its 2007 Information & Data Quality Conference to be held Sept. 24–27, 2007, at The Palms Resort in Las Vegas. Registration is now…
Mon, 07/30/2007 - 22:00
(NCQA: Washington) -- Five new measures of health care effectiveness were recently added to HEDIS, the most definitive set of health care quality measures in the United States.Among the additions unveiled today by the National Committee for…
Mon, 07/30/2007 - 22:00
(ISO: Geneva) -- Using computers and the Internet can be a challenge for anyone, let alone the elderly or people with disabilities. The International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission are…
Mon, 07/30/2007 - 22:00
(ANSI: New York) -- The increasing number of liquid biofuels standards initiatives and the growing market demand for alternative energy sources are fueling the need for the harmonization of standards and test methods to support the commoditization…
Tue, 07/24/2007 - 22:00
(University of Virginia: Charlottesville, Virginia) -- University of Virginia Engineering School Associate Professor William F. Walker and Research Associate Francesco Viola have developed a new tool—an advanced imaging algorithm—that is…
Tue, 07/24/2007 - 22:00
(Productivity Press: New York) -- Why does the United States rank 36th of all industrialized nations in health care? Perhaps the rampant inefficiencies of the system can help explain this dismal placement. There are bright spots, however.…