Additionally, 287 certificates of added qualifications were granted and 1208 recertifications (ie, Osteopathic Continuous Certification completions) were issued. A complete list of the certifications and recertifications processed in 2014 and the total number of active certifications by specialty is found in the Table. Since 2010, the number of active board certifications held has risen steadil...

This paper presents a competence-focused assessment framework for evaluating project management certifications regarding their certification of success-relevant project manager competences. The framework’s goal is to provide an instrument to assess the quality of certification frameworks for project managers that organizations such as the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and ...

Quality assurance is a major task with regard to the implementation of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Currently there are only a few approaches explicitly dealing with the quality of EHR services. The objective of this paper is to present the results of an expert survey that was conducted in 2008 including 29 experts from various European countries and different areas. The experts were quest...

Despite the growing interest of wine industry in quality and environmental certifications influence these standards on positioning international markets, scholarly research has paid proportionally limited attention to link between winery export intensity adoption internationally recognized standards. This study aims analyze which factors make an organizational model performant, verify impact th...

The competitiveness between institutions and companies generates the need to cheapen products services facilitate their production. Thus, several establish partnerships with specialized university laboratories in order promote optimization of processes. These laboratories, guarantee reliability, often resort application technical standards obtaining international certifications. This paper aims...

Cloud service certifications (CSCs) gain increasing attention in practice as a measure against the prevailing uncertainties of cloud computing, but demand efforts for passing audit requirements. However, research findings on certifications’ effectiveness are inconclusive. This research-in-progress paper develops a research model to evaluate CSCs’ effects on two certification outcomes suggested ...