How to Measure Quality in Clinical Translations

The quality of translation lies in the eye of the beholder, making a "good" or "bad" judgment highly subjective. Miscommunication and stylistic preferences often mark these discussions and a surprising number of organizations and translation vendors have no quality system in place at all.

When there is no single, accepted definition of translation quality, how can clinical organizations measure it? This audio conference will help you better understand the proven methodologies for measuring translation quality and sort through the myriad options available to find a solution that is right for you.

How to Measure Quality in Clinical Translations was presented by Andres Heuberger, President & Jason Heaton, Marketing Manager, with ForeignExchange Translations and is previously recorded. For more details or to download this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Bridging the Linguistic Quality Gap: How to Measurably Improve Translation Quality

A cornerstone of the translation industry is the quality of the linguistic work completed, yet linguistic quality remains nebulous for many end clients and translation suppliers. Linguistic quality means different things to different organizations and for different types of projects. With lack of measurable quality systems comes the need to add steps to the process to “ensure” quality. This perceived increase in quality (more people looking at the text) results in slower time-to-market and increased costs.

This audio conference looks at how to move from an uncertain quality outcome to measurable, predictable quality, while presenting an approach to defining, measuring and improving linguistic quality within an organization. The speaker also discusses how to utilize these measurements to meet the organization’s business objectives on a broader scale, spanning improvements in cost and time-to-market.

Bridging the Linguistic Quality Gap: How to Measurably Improve Translation Quality is being presented by Sonia Monahan, Executive Vice President, Quality Systems, with ForeignExchange Translations, and airs on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. For more details or to register, please visit our website at www.fxconferences.com

Creating Policies and Procedures That Work

If you are a scientist, researcher, QA/QC, or product development expert, sooner or later you have to address critical quality and regulatory issues. And there is no more important component of sound quality and regulatory practices than well-thought-out and well-written policies and procedures.

Sub-optimal policies and procedures can have a significant deleterious effect on an organization -- not just in regulatory compliance but also in overall productivity. And even the most knowledgeable subject matter experts can struggle when creating policies and procedures.

Of course, this is not surprising – after all, framing policies and establishing procedures present significant challenges. What processes should have policies? Why? What procedures should be documented? And how extensively should they be documented? And what are the best approaches to drafting policies and procedures that will make them clear, easy to understand, easy to follow, and – perhaps most important of all – acceptable to regulatory authorities? In this audio conference, attendees learn important strategies to meet these challenges.

Creating Policies and Procedures That Work is being presented by Karl Keller, Principal, with Communication Partners and airs on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com