NCQA Certifies Eight Software Vendors
(NCQA: Washington) -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently announced the certification of eight leading software vendors for their Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)-related software.
ISO/IEC Standard for IT Disaster Recovery
(ISO: Geneva) -- ISO/IEC 24762:2008—“Information technology—Security techniques—Guidelines for information and communications technology disaster recovChanging to Lean, Part 2
As is the case with any lean implementation in a traditional environment, culture change is the most difficult obstacle to success. A company can hire consultants, develop work teams, and begin lean initiatives, but if it only talks the talk, the initiative soon becomes just talk.
Changing to Lean, Part 2
Establishing Datum Reference Frames
What’s a datum reference frame?
Humid Environment Ideal for Accurate and Precise Pipetting
(ARTEL: New Orleans, Louisiana) -- The ARTEL Extreme Pipetting Expedition has announced data showing that pipettes performed accurately and pr
Redefining the Kilogram
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Hy Tran examines a kilogram sample in a mass compar |
Enabling Double-Patterning Lithography
(Carl Zeiss SMT: Albany, New York; and SEMATECH: Austin, Texas) -- In a potential boost to advance lithography, engineers at SEMATECH and Carl Zeiss
Making Sense of Sensors
It’s becoming common to refer to the devices used for dimensional and coordinate measurement—vision/optics, lasers, touch probes, and others—as sensors.
