Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Business Continuity Plan in PACS

2010 ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Carrison K.S. Tong ◽  
Eric T.T. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Real World ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
System Operation ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Avoidable Risk ◽  
Pacs System

As PACS gains widespread use, the importance of Quality Control (QC), Quality Assurance (QA), and Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in PACS is rising. The purpose of QC/QA is to measure the quality and performance of a PACS for minimizing the chance of getting any avoidable risk. However, in the real world, there is still some risk in any complicated system. Therefore, BCP is used to reduce the impact and downtime of hospital PACS system operation due to changes or failures in the company operation procedure. The purpose of BCP is to make sure that the critical part of PACS system operation is not affected by critical failure or disaster.

Supplier Quality Assurance Systems: A Study in the Nuclear Industry

1988 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
A J Singer ◽  
G F Churchill ◽  
B G Dale
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Quality System ◽  
Nuclear Industry ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Stringent Quality

This paper reports the results of a study which investigated the impact of quality assurance on 13 suppliers to the nuclear industry. The purpose of the study was to determine the benefits and problems of applying quality assurance in the supply of high risk plant items and material for nuclear installations. The paper discusses the problems facing the industry including: multiple audits and inspections, the irritation with having to contend with two quality system standards (namely BS 5750 and BS 5882) and the cost effectiveness of the more stringent quality system and quality control surveillance requirements imposed by the nuclear industry. It is also pointed out that companies supplying non-nuclear industrial customers were dissatisfied with the qualifications, experience and professional competence of some auditors and many inspectors.

scholarly journals The Impact of Process Quality and Quality Control on Organizational Competitiveness at 5-star hotels in Dubai

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Ali Alzoubi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Process Quality ◽  
Perfect Competition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Field

Hotel industry is seeing many challenges because of the market challenges due to perfect competition market. Among these challenges quality assurance and quality control has significant impact because these factors determine the competitiveness level of the organization. In this research study we explained the hotel industry in the light of process quality and quality control. Interview was arranged and data was collected for interpretation. Results stated that process quality and quality control has significant impact on attaining competitiveness in hotel industry. This study can contribute a lot not just in theoretical field but also in practical field where the hotels can evaluate their own performance and the lacking in their own strategies.

Organisational change in local sport clubs: the case of Flemish gymnastics clubs

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Perck ◽  
Jo Van Hoecke ◽  
Hans Westerbeek ◽  
Diane Breesch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Similar System ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the quality assurance system IKGym (Quality Management System for Gymnastics Clubs), on professionalisation, homogenisation and organisational performance in a sample of gymnastics clubs affiliated to the Flemish Gymnastics Federation. Design/methodology/approach – Data were drawn from a sample of 55 non-profit local Flemish gymnastics clubs, evaluated twice by IKGym between 2004 and 2010. Using a longitudinal analysis of quantitative data of the IKGym data set a paired samples t-test was conducted to measure the impact of IKGym on the sample of gymnastics clubs. Besides, the Pitman-Morgan test was conducted to measure if the gymnastics clubs have become more isomorphic because of IKGym. Findings – First, the results identify different levels of progression towards professionalisation between various quality and performance targets of the gymnastics clubs and depending on the structural design types of these clubs. Second, it was found that during the organisational change the sample of clubs also started to resemble each other more. However, this homogenisation process seems restricted to the organisational management and strategic planning of the clubs and appears especially to clubs belonging to the volunteer structure. Third, the present study also indicates that IKGym has influenced clubs to perform better. Originality/value – IKGym is considered as a pioneering project where a federation stimulated their clubs to professionalise by means of a system of quality assurance. Several federations and sporting leagues (Deutsche Bundesliga, English Premier League; Belgian Basketballiga, etc.) followed this lead and introduced a similar system to evaluate and direct the management of their clubs.

scholarly journals Locational Contiguity and Business Continuity: Perceived Organizational Resilience of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in U.K. Business Parks

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402092741
Author(s):  
Brahim Herbane
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Business Continuity ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Formal Business

As the ability to respond and adapt to crises, we conceptualize and examine organizational resilience through four components (active, temporal, posture, and performance). This multidimensional view of resilience combines the perceptions of senior managers and other indicators including the presence and nature of formal business continuity management. This study examines whether relationships with neighboring firms in a business park substitute wider network relationships. Relationships between locational attributes (locational contiguity within a business park), entrepreneurs’ social networks, and the perceived resilience of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom are examined using data collected from 268 SMEs. Locational attributes are positively associated with organizational resilience (in both aggregated and constituent forms) while revealing an inverse relationship between social networks and perceived resilience. Importantly, the study contributes to a place-based view of resilience to explain why the impact of social networks differs from the positive associations that are found in prior theoretical and empirical work.

scholarly journals Data Integrity Violations: A Challenge to the Pharmaceutical Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 196-198
Author(s):  
Himani Jaiswal ◽  
Muddukrishna B. S. ◽  
Girish Pai Kulyadi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Data Integrity ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
China And India ◽  
The Us ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Data Lifecycle ◽  
Us Fda ◽  
The Impact

Data integrity refers to data reliability throughout the data lifecycle. Terminology “ALCOA” means that the data should be attributable, legible, contemporaneously recorded, original, and accurate. “ALCOA Plus” was introduced later. Violation of the integrity of data is termed as a breach of data integrity. It can take place in various fields, but not limited to manufacturing, quality control (QC), quality assurance (QA), and research. Some of the reasons for breach in data integrity are fabrication or duplication of data, out of specification, out of trend, back-dating, manipulation of data, inadequate standard operating procedures (SOPs), common usernames, and shared passwords. A study to assess the impact of data integrity violations based on the US FDA warning letters was conducted. The majority of data integrity breaches belonged to QC. The frequency of letters based on the country has been presented in the form of a graph. China and India received the highest number of letters for breach of data integrity in the year 2018 and 2017 respectively. It can be concluded that it is important to enforce data integrity and develop strategies for the same. The study is beneficial to understand the reason, affected field of work and remediation methods for data integrity, and improve regulatory compliance.

Immobilization Devices between Routine and Quality Assurance

1998 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Author(s):  
Cesare Polico ◽  
Giovanni Pavanato ◽  
Carlo Capirci ◽  
Giovanni Mandoliti
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Radiation Treatment ◽  
Pelvic Radiation ◽  
Treatment Errors ◽  
Target Volumes ◽  
High Doses ◽  
Radiation Treatments ◽  
The Impact

Aims and background To evaluate the impact of immobilization devices in reducing treatment errors and delivering high doses to limited target volumes. The clear advantages are matched with quality control necessity. Methods The Authors examine two fundamental aspects of the topic:1) the immobilization of head and neck and the relative implications in reducing the skin-sparing at the build-up region; 2) the rationale and management of quality assurance procedures in the immobilization devices utilization, with a particular reference to pelvic radiation treatment. Conclusions The immobilization devices utilization certainly leads to an optimization in the execution of radiation treatments. Nevertheless, in the choice for their routine use, the Authors suggest to follow some “conceptual rules” with the aim of successfully matching each of the discussed aspects connected with their utilization.

scholarly journals Adversarial Attacks on Crowdsourcing Quality Control

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 375-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Checco ◽  
Jo Bates ◽  
Gianluca Demartini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Real World ◽  
Correct Answer ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Work Quality ◽  
Crowd Work ◽  
Small Set ◽  
Share Information

Crowdsourcing is a popular methodology to collect manual labels at scale. Such labels are often used to train AI models and, thus, quality control is a key aspect in the process. One of the most popular quality assurance mechanisms in paid micro-task crowdsourcing is based on gold questions: the use of a small set of tasks of which the requester knows the correct answer and, thus, is able to directly assess crowd work quality. In this paper, we show that such mechanism is prone to an attack carried out by a group of colluding crowd workers that is easy to implement and deploy: the inherent size limit of the gold set can be exploited by building an inferential system to detect which parts of the job are more likely to be gold questions. The described attack is robust to various forms of randomisation and programmatic generation of gold questions. We present the architecture of the proposed system, composed of a browser plug-in and an external server used to share information, and briefly introduce its potential evolution to a decentralised implementation. We implement and experimentally validate the gold detection system, using real-world data from a popular crowdsourcing platform.  Our experimental results show that crowdworkers using the proposed system spend more time on signalled gold questions but do not neglect the others thus achieving an increased overall work quality. Finally, we discuss the economic and sociological implications of this kind of attack.

The Impact of Property Characteristics on Economic Performance of Russian Industrial Enterprises

2005 ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kapeliushnikov ◽  
N. Demina
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Ownership Concentration ◽  
Corporate Sector ◽  
Concentrated Ownership ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Russian Industry ◽  
Control Premium ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

The paper provides new survey evidence on effects of concentrated ownership upon investment and performance in Russian industrial enterprises. Authors trace major changes in their ownership profile, assess pace of post-privatization redistribution of shareholdings and provide evidence on ownership concentration in the Russian industry. The major econometric findings are that the first largest shareholding is negatively associated with the firm’s investment and performance but surprisingly the second largest shareholding is positively associated with them. Moreover, these relationships do not depend on identity of majority shareholders. These results are consistent with the assumption that the entrenched controlling owners are engaged in extracting "control premium" but sizable shareholdings accumulated by other blockholders may put brakes on their expropriating behavior and thus be conductive for efficiency enhancing. The most interesting topic for further more detailed analysis is formation, stability and roles of coalitions of large blockholders in the corporate sector of post-socialist countries.

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