Event: “Are You Ready for the Changes to the Medical Device Directive?”
(TÜVRheinland: Newtown, CT) — Starting March 21, all medical device manufacturers must comply with the Directive 2007/47/EC or risk being pulled from the European Union market.
CLSI Publishes New Proposed Guidelines
(CLSI: Wayne, PA) -- Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently published new proposed-level guidelines.
(Mettler-Toledo Inc.: Columbus, OH) -- METTLER-TOLEDO, a global supplier of precision instruments and services, presents its new Biden, Locke Present Baldrige Award to Three Organizations
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- On Dec. 2, Vice President Joe Biden, and U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke, presented three U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest honor for innovation and performance excellence.
NQF Helps Ensure Health IT Captures Information to Drive Quality Improvement
(NQF: Washington) -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently released the Quality Data Set (QDS), a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients’ quality of care.
Lean Management in Hospitals--The Humboldt Way
St. Joseph Health System-Humboldt County (SJHS-Humboldt County) is committed to meeting the highest standards in health care delivery. SJHS-Humboldt County consists of two hospitals: St.
Database Provides Centralized Info for Medical Device Professionals
(ANSI: New York) -- The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has joined forces with three of the biggest names in standards to develop an unprecedented resource for medical device standards and related information.
America’s Best Health Insurance Plans
(NCQA: Washington) -- U.S.
Event: BMGI Workshop “Lean for Healthcare”
(BMGI: Denver) -- BMGI in conjunction with BMG University announce “Lean for Healthcare,” a 4.5-day workshop providing a comprehensive introduction to lean in health care environments. The workshop is offered during February and June 2010 in Denver.
Small Nanoparticles Bring Big Improvement to Medical Imaging
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- If you’re watching the complex processes in a living cell, it is easy to miss something important—especially if you are watching changes that take a long time to unfold and require high-spatial-resolution imaging.
