HEALTH ASSURANCE ASSOCIATIONS.

Quality assurance in our health care system.

E-health and assurance: curing hospital websites

Hospital websites are becoming an industry standard as patients (consumers) and health professionals use web resources for information, research, and communication. Industry predictions focused on future e-hospitals that would integrate all stakeholders in a seamless network allowing data to be shared. This paper investigates web assurance strategies implemented by hospitals in the design of th...

Assurance and Assurance Cases

Assurance provides confidence that a system will work as required and not cause harm. Confidence is based on justified beliefs about the system and its environment, and justification can be developed and documented as an assurance case comprised of a structured argument grounded on evidence. For justification to be compelling, the argument must be indefeasible, meaning that we have so thoroughl...

Development of indicators for quality assurance in public health medicine.

OBJECTIVES To develop structure, process, and outcome indicators within a quality rating index for audit of public health medicine. DESIGN Development of an audit matrix and indicator of quality through a series of group discussions with public health physicians, from which self administered weighted questionnaires were constructed by a modified Delphi technique. SETTING Five Scottish healt...

High-Assurance Software Design for Mobile Tele-Health Systems

This panel will focus on the security and reliability challenges posed by distributed, mobile tele-health solutions (particularly those based on mobile phones). Academic, clinical, as well as industry panelists with direct experience in the design and implementation of mobile tele-health solutions will provide insights on how those challenges have been addressed thus far, and what are some of t...