The following study provides a risk analysis of the forthcoming nationwide healthcare information system in Germany. Based on the information security audit methodology of the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), we evaluated the introduction of the new system in hospitals with respect to security. Conceptually, the study focuses explicitly on an organizational level; specifically the...

The study objects for investigating the possibility of activating both audit committee and board of directors for restricting the practices of earnings management phenomenon. To achieve this objective, a questionnaire had been developed and self-administered for a selected sample consists of 123 auditors working in Jordan based on the simple random sampling method. The study first hypothesis is...

The role of performance measurements and clinical indicators has changed from being a minor component in the management of health care to one where the demands for greater accountability, safety, efficiency, and quality have accentuated the role of measurement and reporting. For those who have been involved in the development of indicators this will be seen as progress. However, the increased d...

In this paper, we de ne the forward integrity security property, motivate its appropriateness as a systems security requirement, and demonstrate designs that achieve this property. Applications include secure audit logs (e.g., syslogd data) for intrusion detection or accountability, communications security, and authenticating partial results of computation for mobile agents. We prove security t...

Information security audit is a monitoring/logging mechanism to ensure compliance with regulations and to detect abnormalities, security breaches, and privacy violations; however, auditing too many events causes overwhelming use of system resources and impacts performance. Consequently, a classification of events is used to prioritize events and configure the log system. Rules can be applied ac...

AIM To investigate the factors that influence the successful implementation of audit in a palliative care setting. BACKGROUND Quality assurance is a necessary component of contemporary health care. In the past, palliative care has not generally been subject to systems of audit and quality management. However in recent years the need for all health care organizations to have clear policies and...