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In many cases quality development has not redeemed its promises indisputably. There are serious problems in the prevalent quality management approaches. These including: • Business management is not involved / committed. – Quality is a specialist issue. • Communication between business managers and quality experts is not effective. • Quality initiatives – e.g. building distinct quality systems ...

Informatics as a field is maturing both in the range of educational programs and the number and type of positions for informatics professionals. Although there has been an expansion of the traditional masters and PhD programs, there are an increasing number of novel programs serving the entire pipeline—high school students, college students, medical students and professionals. For professionals...

We present the CMS Pixel Data Quality Monitoring (DQM) system. The concept and architecture are discussed. The monitored quantities are introduced, and the methods on how to ensure that the detector takes high quality data with large efficiency are explained. Finally we describe the automated data certification scheme, which is used to certify and classify the data from the Pixel detector for p...

The anesthesia profession has produced voluminous research data on equipment and techniques leading to safer practices, but the lack of attention given to the inconspicuous role of anesthesia support personnel on the anesthesia care team may pose a risk to patient safety. It is questionable whether the skills of anesthesia support personnel who are trained on the job have kept up with an increa...

The JCVSD (Japan Cardiovascular Surgery Database) was organized in 2000 to improve the quality of cardiovascular surgery in Japan. Web-based data harvesting on adult cardiac surgery was started (Japan Adult Cardiovascular Surgery Database, JACVSD) in 2001, and on congenital heart surgery (Japan Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery Database, JCCVSD) in 2008. Both databases grew to become national d...

More than 70 electronic control units (ECU’s) serve for safety and comfort functions in a luxury car. Communicating over different bus systems (e.g. CAN class C and B, LIN, MOST, Bluetooth) on one hand many ECU’s are dealing with close loop control functions as well as reactive functions and do have many safety critical hard real time constraints (thus the software is running under a real time ...

Establishment of hospital accreditation programs is increasingly growing across numerous developing nations. Such initiatives aim to improve quality of care. However, such establishments, mainly incentivized by successful and famous accreditation plans in developed countries, usually suffer from lack of necessary arrangements which, in turn, result in undesired consequences. Indeed, the first p...

This article was written by Sharon R. Akabas, PhD, director of the Master of Science in nutrition and associate director for educational initiatives, Columbia University, Institute of Human Nutrition, New York, NY; Gretchen Vannice, MS, RDN, consultant, Applied Nutrition Consulting, Santa Cruz, CA; John B. Atwater, PhD, senior director, USP Verification Programs, United States Pharmacopeial Con...

In recent years software quality has become a matter of high interest especially to software developers, managers and maintainers. Regarding the fact that software is evolving into extremely important part for a company to be competitive in its business, the requirement for the software to be greatly accessible for a company in accomplishing its ambitions means that the software should have a g...