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Business Definition for: Quality Assurance

  • all the methods used to ensure compliance with a quality standard. Quality assurance is recognized by the international standard ISO 9000.

Additional Resources

Quality Assurance
This article mainly focus upon Quality Assurance. It can be defined as, all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that an entity will fulfil requirements for quality. Both customers and managers have a need for quality assurance as they cannot oversee operations for themselves. One can...
Tags: QA
White papers 2003-01-01
Construction Quality Assurance White Paper
The construction industry has been struggling with quality issues for many years, and the cost to our economy is dramatic. The cost could potentially be reduced significantly if the industry were to embrace the concept of quality assurance that has been used with great success by many other sectors of...
Tags: Construction Industry, QA, Industry
White papers 2005-04-15
Proview implements quality assurance program
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA-To emphasize teamwork, satisfy customers, and provide continuous quality improvement, Proview Technology, monitor manufacturer, has implemented a new quality assurance program. The program organizes a Quality Assurance division consisting of four groups: manufacturing, quality evaluation, quality systems, and customer service. The groups work together on different phases...
Tags: monitor, QA, quality
Research articles 1999-09-01
Sample Quality Assurance Manual
To assure the government, as well as other prospective customers, that you will provide a quality product, you need to have a well-documented Quality Assurance QA program in place. Your program should provide a systematic approach for evaluation, inspection, testing, calibration or whatever is needed to monitor and assure the...
Tags: Government, Office Depot Inc., QA
Tools & templates 2004-03-01
Sysco Corporation - Grapevine: News about People - Craig Watson appointment - Brief Article
Sysco Corporation, a foodservice marketer and distributor, announced that Craig Watson has been named vice president, quality assurance. Watson, currently assistant vice president, quality assurance, will assume his new duties effective immediately. Watson joined Sysco in 1981 as manager of quality assurance in the corporation's procurement organization. Watson progressed to...
Tags: procurement, QA, Sysco Corp.
Research articles 2003-02-24
Scholarly quality: Australia's Monash University joins the quality league - Passport
Until recently, Australia was one of few countries in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development without a national quality assurance system to monitor the quality of its higher-education activities. That changed in March 2000, when the government formed the Australian Universities Quality Agency. The purpose of AUQA is to...
Tags: Monash University
Research articles 2002-10-01
Level Four Americas Interfaces HP's Quality Assurance Solution with BRIDGE:test
Integrating ATM specific testing solution with quality assurance solution provides a wider, enterprise quality control platform for financial institutions
Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., QA
Research articles 2008-04-07
Nat. Committee for Quality Assurance accredits Aetna US Healthcare
The National Committee for Quality Assurance awarded Aetna U.S. Healthcare of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. an Excellent Accreditation for its HMO and Quality Point-of-Service plans.
Tags: Aetna Inc., health care, QA
Research articles 2002-04-03
The State of Quality Auditing: It's Being Integrated Into Internal Auditing
As previously mentioned, internal auditing, quality auditing and other internal assurance/control functions are being reinvented. There are seeing more cross functionality, where perceived operational redundancies are being eliminated and functions are being integrated. Many assurance functions including security, safety, environment, quality, customer-supplier evaluations and internal auditing may be subsumed into...
Tags: Auditing
White papers 2001-03-01
Midwest BioResearch Hires Former FDA Investigator James Plucinski to Guide Client Quality Assurance
SKOKIE, Ill. -- Midwest BioResearch LLC MBR, a contract research organization focused on drug disposition and toxicology, announced the addition of James Plucinski as its new Quality Assurance Manager. Plucinski, a former investigator with the Food and Drug Administration FDA, will manage MBR's quality assurance program.
Tags: FDA, QA
Research articles 2008-01-17
etalk Aids Ticketmaster in Bolstering Contact Center Quality Assurance; Premier Ticketing Service Provider Implements etalk Advisor as Cornerstone of the Company's Quality Assurance Efforts
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
Tags: advisor, contact center, QA, Ticketmaster Corp.
Research articles 2004-05-10
Quality Assurance - Utilization Review Analyst Job Description
The Quality Assurance - Utilization Review Analyst job description template includes the following job summary: Under the immediate supervision of the quality assurance/utilization review supervisor, to perform quality assurance/utilization review duties. Also to provide an ongoing objective evaluation of the important aspects of patients' care through daily review of patient...
Tags: Job, Patient, QA, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
What Is Assurance?
Assurance refers to professional services that improve the quality of information. It is a critical service for decision makers perennially in search of precise information. Assurance services facilitate organizations in managing change and risk factors. The paper examines assurance services. The role of the auditing process in processing relevant financial...
Tags: Financial Accounting, Finance, Service, Information, Financial, Assurance
Presentations 2003-01-01
Arbortext and acrolinx Partnership Raises the Bar for Global Documentation Quality; Alliance Integrates Language Quality Assurance Tool with Enterprise Publishing Software
ANN ARBOR, Mich. & BERLIN -- Arbortext, the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, and acrolinx, the leading provider of quality assurance tools for technical documentation, today announced a technology partnership. The companies are offering a joint solution that integrates acrolinx's information quality assurance software, acrocheckTM, with Arbortext's authoring software.
Tags: alliance, partnership, QA
Research articles 2005-06-28
Quality Assurance Coordinator
The Quality Assurance Coordinator job description template includes the following job summary: To perform the functions of a hospitalwide Quality Assurance Coordinator under the direction of the Director of Medical Records, in accordance with JCAH and hospital administration and medical staff goals and the approved Quality Assurance/Utilization Review (QA/UR) plan....
Tags: Job, QA, Medical Record, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Tools & templates 2007-09-09
National Committee for Quality Assurance and Pfizer Inc Publish Strategies for Optimizing Care for Older Adults; Fourth Edition of Quality Profiles™: The Leadership Series Highlights Successful Efforts to Improve the Quality of Care for Older Adults
WASHINGTON -- The National Committee for Quality Assurance NCQA, in collaboration with Pfizer Inc, today released a new publication profiling strategies and recommendations for improving the quality of care for older adults.
Tags: leadership, Pfizer Inc., QA, strategy
Research articles 2006-06-05
IHOP Names Dixon VPof Product, Quality Assurance and Purchasing.
Staff IHOP Corp. named Dustin Dixon vice president of product, quality assurance and purchasing. In his new role, Dixon will oversee the creation of new products, product specifications, quality assurance, ... Staff ...
Tags: IHOP Corp., QA
Research articles 2006-08-01
Objectivity Enhances Quality Assurance Reinforcing Customer Care Commitment; Supports Growing Market Demand by Expanding Quality Assurance Team by 40%
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Responding to the continuing market growth for its real-time data management solution addressing complex inter-related data, Objectivity, Inc. today is reinforcing the company's ongoing commitment to quality assurance expanding this critical company function by forty percent (40%). This announcement follows another year of growth and profitability for...
Tags: Objectivity, QA
Research articles 2006-08-30
An Introduction to ISO 9000
The article talks about ISO 9000 standards. The heart of the ISO 9000 series is a set of three internationally-accepted standards. These define the elements of a formal quality assurance system, as distinct from a total quality management system. ISO 9000 can be a useful tool to help rationalize and...
Tags: Process Improvement, Quality, Iso standards, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Total Quality Management, It Operations, Business Operations, ISO 9000, QA
White papers 2003-01-01
Consumer Demand Sparks the Growth of Quality Assurance Schemes in the European Food Sector
Concerns over food quality and safety have led to the growth of quality assurance schemes that provide technical requirements for production and processing and provide inspection and monitoring to assure compliance. The schemes, increasingly prevalent in the U.K. livestock and meat industry, will impact market structure, international competitiveness, and trade.
Tags: Food, QA, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
White papers 2001-06-04
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