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The trade of Chinese medicines (CMs) has developed rapidly worldwide. There is an urgent need for international standards of CMs in international trade. A newly established technical ...committee TC249 in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) provides a platform for developing the international standards of traditional Chinese medicine. This article introduces the overview and development strategy of the international standardization of CMs. A quality assurance system for the entire industrial chain was well designed in the fields of seedlings, medicinal materials, and manufactured products. The general standards, testing method standards, and standards for single herbal medicines meet the urgent needs of the market and should be developed with high priority to promote the international trade of CMs and guarantee the quality and safety of clinical use. This article also introduces the significance, classification, and procedures for developing international standards of CMs and helps us better understand the international standardization work of CMs.
This study aims to analyze and understand the Development of pesantren (Islamic Boarding School's) Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI) Model Based on the Education Unit Accreditation Instrument ...(IASP) 2020. This study uses a Research and Development (R&D) approach. The data collection technique is done through interviews, observation and documentation. While the data analysis was carried out in a circular manner, starting from data collection, data reduction and drawing conclusions. The results show that pesantren Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI) Model which refers to the Education Unit Accreditation Instrument (IASP) 2020 was developed with a quality scheme in four main areas: firstly, the quality of graduates, secondly, the quality of the process, thirdly, the quality of minimum standard achievements, and fourthly, the quality of management. (Islamic boarding school management).
This paper aims to provide an understanding of the internal quality assurance system (SPMI) based on pesantren (Islamic boarding school) values developed by one of the vocational high schools in ...Indonesia. This research uses a qualitative case-study approach through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation supported by the interactive analytical model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldana to produce a comprehensive data analysis. The results of the study show that: 1) Determination of quality standards refers to the National Education Standards and Islamic boarding schools' values that are adjusted to the vision, mission, and conditions of the school for further School Self Evaluation to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and appropriate recommendations; 2) Quality fulfillment planning is prepared based on the results of quality mapping in the form of School Work Plans and School Annual Work Plans which contain quality targets, programs, indicators of the success of the person in charge and schedule of activities as well as sources of funding and budget; and 3) The implementation of quality fulfillment is designed by the person in charge of the activity by forming a team for implementing activities, technical activities, and credible budget details to ensure the achievement of the quality implementation that has been declared.
The article is devoted to solving the problem of the imperfection of the existing approach to knowledge management in the quality assurance system of Industry 4.0 products, due to the fact that the ...place of knowledge management outside the quality assurance system of industry 4.0 products, characteristic of this approach, hinders the achievement of sustainability and competitiveness. The authors have compiled an econometric model based on the international experience of the top 40 leading countries of the world with the most developed industry 4.0 for 2023, which mathematically describes and justifies the significant contribution of knowledge management to the product quality of industry 4.0 from the standpoint of sustainability and competitiveness. The model has identified key factors of sustainability (implementation of SDGs 8 and SDGs 9) and competitiveness, namely knowledge capital, research, development and innovation outputs and impact, as well as information and communications technology usage. To solve this problem, an alternative, new approach to knowledge management in the product quality assurance system of industry 4.0 has been developed, which makes it possible to simultaneously and fully achieve sustainability and competitiveness. The originality of the approach is that it considers quality as a result of sustainability and competitiveness; and knowledge management is interpreted as the embodiment of quality, located inside the quality assurance system of products in industry 4.0.The theoretical significance of the authors’ conclusions is that they rethought the place of knowledge management in the product quality assurance system of industry 4.0, which should be inside this system in the interests of sustainability and competitiveness. The practical significance of the developed approach is due to the fact that it will improve the practice of ensuring the product quality of industry 4.0 through the integrated achievement of sustainability and competitiveness through the optimization of knowledge management.
The New Round of Review and Assessment on Undergraduate Education and Teaching & Learning has set requirements for the construction of quality assurance systems in universities. It emphasizes the ...focus on the university's teaching quality assurance system, the utilization of quality information in universities, and the improvement of quality and cultural development. This article takes the practice of Chengdu Neusoft University’s teaching quality management and assurance system as an example to explore the quality assurance system in private applied universities. It explains the connotation of the system and analyzes its support for evaluation and assessment, with the aim of providing reference and guidance for the construction of teaching quality assurance systems in private universities.
The implementation of quality standards and measures in the school-based prevention of risk behaviors is not well evidenced in the literature.
The description of the emergence and implementation of ...an original nationwide quality management for the prevention of risk behaviors.
Narrative review from database searches, including gray literature, followed by a subsequent content analysis.
The implementation was divided into six stages characterized by specific activities, measures and concepts given by parameters of the thematic scope and approaches. The driving element turned out to be the changing responses of service providers. It was the response, engagement and the increasing level of providers self-organization that had the greatest effect on development. This interactive process had a major influence on the eventual wide thematic range and scope. It led to establishing of a unique system represented by four components: a certification system and standards for the quality of methods and their delivery to the target group, the monitoring and evaluation of the programs at the school level, qualification standards for professionals, and ethical standards.
Reflection on the implementation of quality management in school-based prevention in the past 20 years may empower similar processes in other countries.
This research aims to determine whether there is a direct and indirect influence on exogenous variables, namely leadership and organizational commitment to endogenous variables, namely the ...application of internal quality assurance systems in state universities with organizational culture as an intervening variable. This research used quantitative approach and the analysis tools is path analysis. Population of this study included 340 lecturers at three state universities in Ambon and the sample size was 221 respondents. The results of the study prove that organizational culture plays an important role in mediating and contributing to leadership and organizational commitment to the implementation of the internal quality assurance system in higher education. Leadership and organizational commitment require an organizational culture to build communication and motivation through expectations and academic values that develop in a healthy, creative, innovative and dynamic manner because it can encourage collaboration and synergy of all elements of higher education to achieve the set quality standards.
As a continuous improvement practice, Six Sigma has been accepted globally across the service industry. In the past decade, the application and success of Six Sigma in healthcare services has been ...remarkable. Despite the fact that several papers on Six Sigma have appeared in the erstwhile literature related to healthcare operations, there is a dearth of field studies highlighting the application of Six Sigma in healthcare outsourced firms, in specific to healthcare payers that engage in a non-clinical setup. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of Six Sigma within the healthcare payer outsourced firms, where error-free delivery becomes critical. The article contributes to the literature of Six Sigma in healthcare outsourcing highlighting how 'Six Sigma as a methodology' could help reduce claims adjudication errors in a healthcare payer firm. The Six Sigma DMAIC project case study presented as part of the paper delivered a saving of USD 0.53 million and is a classic example of how Six Sigma can bring bottom-line impact to healthcare outsourced organizations. Managerial implications and lessons learned are discussed alongside the concluding notes.
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