Editorial: Building community while raising standards

Raising standards while watching the bottom line: making a business case for infection control.

While society would benefit from a reduced incidence of nosocomial infections, there is currently no direct reimbursement to hospitals for the purpose of infection control, which forces healthcare institutions to make economic decisions about funding infection control activities. Demonstrating value to administrators is an increasingly important function of the hospital epidemiologist because h...

Raising the Standards of AI Products

We propose a mechanism for the promotion of high-standards in commercial Artificial Intelligence products, namely an association of companies which would regulate their own membership using a code of practice and the precedents set by previous cases. Membership would provide some assurance of quality. We argue the benefits of such a mechanism, and discuss some of the details including the propo...

Raising standards in reading: Achieving children's targets

Editorial: Journal article reporting standards.

In this editorial, the author notes that this issue of American Psychologist features a pair of important articles related to newly updated standards for reporting research in psychology in scientific journals, covering both quantitative (Appelbaum et al., 2018) and qualitative (Levitt et al., 2018) research. The increasing breadth and complexity of research, and the importance of communicating...

The ENISA Awareness Raising Community

This paper presents the ENISA Awareness Raising Community that aims at sharing and analysing information security good practices across Europe. The Community builds on a diverse range of skills and knowledge of ICTs, and differing interests and levels of expertise and priorities. Shared awareness practices have been deemed critical to the success of the Community. Leveraging upon the Community ...