(Gartner: Stamford, CT) -- Gartner Inc. has released its seventh annual Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranking. The 2015 ranking recognizes companies across the healthcare value chain that demonstrate leadership in improving patient care and lowering costs.

(ISO: Geneva) -- A standard for quality management systems specific to the medical devices industry is under review and has just moved a step closer to completion.

(AssurX: Morgan Hill, CA) -- AssurX, Inc., a leading enterprise quality management, risk, and regulatory compliance solution provider, has released the latest update to its AssurX audit management software.

(FDA: Silver Spring, MD) -- openFDA is releasing information on medical devices that could spur innovation and advance scientific research.

FDA will be taking applications starting Sept 1, 2015, looking for makers of class I and suitable class II medical devices to participate in a pilot program to file malfunction reports in summary form quarterly.

(PQ Systems: Dayton, OH) -- PQ Systems, a Dayton-area quality management software developer, announces new ownership of the company as of June 1, 2015.

(NIH: Bethesda, MD) -- Poor quality medicines are a real and urgent threat that could undermine decades of successful efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, according to the editors of a collection of journal articles published April 20, 2015.

(Quality Digest -- Chico, CA) Quality Digest, for more than 30 years the leading source for quality news and resources, is now available on mobile devices.