ISO Focus - May 2004
Teaming up for better health
Comment
Oliver Smoot, ISO President
Greater gains for stakeholders through unity
Guest View
Dr. Vladimir Lepakhin and Dr. Timothy Evans, Assistant Director-Generals, World Health Organization
"Global networks and partnerships ensure that the WHO keeps its finger on the pulse of the planet at all times ."
Main Focus
Teaming up for better health
- New momentum for standardization of medical technologies - WSC Healthcare workshop
- Increasing health care efficiency
- Enhancing international commerce and public health
- International Standards: the flexible solution
- Links between regulators and standards developers
- Nanotechnology, medicine and standardization
- Medical laboratories can be unsafe places
- The changing patterns of implants
- Health and IT - making the most of the match
- Enter the world of cleanrooms
- Standardization helps WHO make better decisions
Developments and initiatives
- An OASIS that is no mirage - Interview with Patrick Gannon, President and CEO of OASIS
- ebXML - when e-business means business
New this month
- Improving quality in software engineering
- Clarity and cost cutting with well-designed product documentation
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- Highlights of events from around the world
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