Standardization as a Private Enterprise

Standardization as a Private Enterprise

Standardization of analytical methods in clinical chemistry is important because it facilitates interpretation of laboratory results. Many chemical determinations are now well standardized, but this is less common with immunoassays. Standardization requires availability of a primary standard and a reference method. Although standards are available for most clinically important analytes, referen...

Providers and Patients Caught Between Standardization and Individualization: Individualized Standardization as a Solution; Comment on “(Re) Making the Procrustean Bed? Standardization and Customization as Competing Logics in Healthcare”

In their 2017 article, Mannion and Exworthy provide a thoughtful and theory-based analysis of two parallel trends in modern healthcare systems and their competing and conflicting logics: standardization and customization. This commentary further discusses the challenge of treatment decision-making in times of evidence-based medicine (EBM), shared decision-making and personalized medicine. From ...

Standardization in Enterprise Inter- and Intraorganizational Integration

The worldwide collaboration and cooperation of enterprises of all sizes have increased the need for interoperability standards, especially for businesses in global environments. Such standards are concerned with the communication aspects of information and communication technology (ICT), such as protocols, safety, and security, as well as the syntax and semantics of the communication content. S...

Where Private Enterprise Can Help

Private Enterprise Surveys of the Business Environment

Recognizing the private sector’s efficiency at allocating resources and spurring economic growth, the World Bank Group seeks to identify obstacles to its development. Listening to the problems of active entrepreneurs is an important step toward identifying needed reforms in the enabling environment and support systems for private enterprise. Surveys give greater confidence in the Bank’s conclus...