Medical Administrator

Interdisciplinary medical, nursing, and administrator education in practice: the Johns Hopkins experience.

Reforming graduate medical, nursing and health administrators' education to include the core competencies of interdisciplinary teamwork and quality improvement (QI) techniques is a key strategy to improve quality in hospital settings. Practicing clinicians are best positioned in these settings to understand systems issues and craft potential solutions. The authors describe how, in ten months du...

The physician-administrator team. Still an optimal model for leading medical practices.

An Eye on Network Intruder-Administrator Shootouts

Carefully logging network activity is essential to meet the requirements of high security and optimal resource availability. However, detecting break-in attempts within this activity is a difficult task. Making the distinction between misuse and normal use is hard, and identifying intrusions that use novel attacks is fundamentally difficult. In this paper, we introduce a visual approach for ana...

Single Sign-On and the System Administrator

Large organizations are increasingly shifting critical computing operations from traditional host-based application platforms to network-distributed, client-server platforms. The resulting proliferation of disparate systems poses problems for end-users, who must frequently track multiple electronic identities across different systems, as well as for system administrators, who must manage securi...

Security analysers: administrator assistants or hacker helpers?

Security analyser tools provide a means of automatically identifying, and potentially exploiting, vulnerabilities within computer systems and networks. Although such tools are useful to system administrators, in order to highlight and overcome weaknesses in protection, they are also of assistance to hackers looking for ways to break in. The paper highlights the range of tools that are currently...