Boeing Plant Gets ISO 14001 Certification
(Boeing: Salt Lake City) -- The Boeing Co.
Joint Commission Standards Revised
(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois) -- The Joint Commission’s revised standards, rationales, and elements of performance for 2009 are now available online.
ISO and IEC members OK DIS 29500
(ISO: Geneva) -- The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, “Information technology—Office Open XML formats,” as an ISO/IEC international standard after appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of the document failed to garner suf
Coalition Endorses NCQA Program
(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance’s Physician and Hospital Quality (PHQ) program recently earned an important endorsement from a respected coalition of employer, consumer, and labor organizations.
Seniors Stay Safe
(ANSI: New York) -- A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that falls among the elderly, long known as a common source of injury for this population, can be reduced through a program of adjusting treatment, assessing risk, and educating patients.
Virginia Helps Afghanistan Regulate Metrology Standards
(VDACS: Richmond, Virginia) -- As gas prices have risen in the United States, so have complaints about gasoline pumps.
October Conference to Spur Bioscience Innovation
(NIST: Gaithersburg, Maryland) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) will cosponsor an international conference on “Accelerating Innovation in 21st Century Biosciences: Identifying the Measurement Standards and Technol
UCIS Technical Subcommittee Receives Unified Coverage Database
(Mentor Graphics: Wilsonville, Oregon) -- Mentor Graphics has announced the donation of its Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) specification and application programming interface (API), which manage all coverage data from multiple tools, to Accellera’s Unified Coverage Database Interoperability (UCIS)
2008 EFQM Excellence Award Finalists
(EFQM: Brussels) -- EFQM, a nonprofit membership foundation headquartered in Brussels, has announced the 11 finalists of the EFQM Excellence Award 2008.
ASQ Awards 2008 Freund Scholarship
(ASQ: Milwaukee, Wisconsin) -- The American Society for Quality recently awarded its 2008 Richard A. Freund International Scholarship to Amar Thiraviam, in Daytona Beach, Florida.
