At a time when we are constantly being told to value the new and the different, it may come as a surprise to learn that the standard, the shared and the common can be strong drivers of transformation.

All businesses want to boost productivity and efficiency while reducing errors and accidents, but this is especially important for small businesses operating with tighter budgets and smaller staffs.

UnitedHealth Group is undergoing operational changes to enhance automation and standardization following audits of its health ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—The initial documents defining the Catena control plane standard were introduced June 1-3 in Tokyo at Imagica SMPTE during the society’s Technology Committee meetings, the Society ...

Paul Murphy opined recently on the relative merits of standards versus standardization. To paraphrase, standards are good because multiple products do things in the same general way, thus making them ...

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A 3-step protocol, "time-out for sign-out," standardizes OR to ICU handoffs, improving communication and patient safety. Junior clinicians benefit significantly from structured handoff processes, ...

It is widely believed that environmental standardization is the best way to guarantee reproducible results in animal experiments. However, mounting evidence indicates that even subtle differences in ...

For years, tech giant Microsoft ($MSFT) ran on two specific coding languages, among others: C and C++ were widely used not ...

The third plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China set clear goals for accelerating the construction of a unified national market. The communique issued by the ...