(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- Lean Six Sigma could help reduce the soaring national debt but faces some key challenges in government implementations, according to a new survey by the American Society for Quality (ASQ), the leading global network of quality experts.

(ASTHO: Arlington, VA) -- The Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) has launched the first national voluntary accreditation program for public health departments.

(Thomson Reuters: Ann Arbor, MI) -- Health care spending is 10-percent higher for hospital employees than it is for the general employee population, according to a recent study by the health care business of Thomson Reuters.

(IBM: Armonk, NY) -- WellPoint Inc. and IBM announced an agreement to create the first commercial applications of the IBM Watson technology.

(IRCA: London) -- The International Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA) has launched a new Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems (PQMS) Auditor certification scheme (ICH Q10), to support the assurance of global supply-chain integrity.

(UBM Canon: Los Angeles) -- The Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) Online conference focuses on issues critical to medical device development professionals—direct from your desktop.

(IHI: Cambridge, MA) -- Now that the harm, cost, and prevalence of medical errors and defects in health care are getting the attention they deserve, improving patient safety and reliability has become a top priority in health care.

(ASQ: Milwaukee) -- The American Society for Quality (ASQ) invites you to help demonstrate the impact quality can have on health care.

(Pinpoint Laser Systems: Peabody, MA) -- Pinpoint Laser Systems has introduced the Proline Alignment Kit, a visual laser system for checking and measuring straightness, flatness, squareness, parallelism, leveling, and many other

(Visual Workplace: Byron Center, MI) -- Visual Workplace Inc. has made available a new training DVD, Lean Healthcare.