Errors are an unavoidable part of modern life. From minor human misjudgments to large-scale system failures, errors influence ...

WASHINGTON — While the White House acknowledges that hospital medical errors are "a big and serious problem," a senior administration official says President Barack Obama does not favor a mandatory ...

Here is another profound grasp of the obvious (for which I have a knack for delivering) – compliance and legal professionals can learn a number of lessons from individual enforcement actions. In many ...

Several years ago, I wrote about possible sources of measurement errors in testing one’s blood pressure (see Avoiding blood pressure measurement errors). Since then, I have kept a very careful record ...

A rounding error adds up tragically over the months – IT mishaps always repeat the same pattern. But we can learn from them. A classic and tragic example is the ...

According to its inventor Tony Hoare, an error in the concept of modern programming languages has caused billions of dollars in damage. Hardly any software problem is ...