The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 may well be the most significant increase ever in the federal government's health care fraud and abuse enforcement authority. This new authority coupled with increased scrutiny of the health care industry generally creates a compelling incentive for health care facilities to develop corporate compliance programs.

This report presents research and findings on accountability risk in AI systems by providing an overview of how risk-management frameworks the system lifecycle can be integrated to promote trustworthy AI. It also explores processes technical attributes that facilitate implementation values-based principles for identifies tools mechanisms define, assess, treat, govern risks at each stage lifecyc...

Abstract Although a growing number of NGOs are combining humanitarian and development activities, it was long the case that action isolated from discussions practices in world development. The work saving lives deemed to be guided solely by principles, on accountability were rare. In 1990s, standards initiatives arose recognition organisations not accountable affected populations. This article ...

This paper is the first to explore the effects of school accountability systems on high-achieving students' long-term performance. Using exceptional data from a large highly-selective state university, we relate school accountability pressure in high school to a student's university-level grades and study habits. We exploit a change in the state's accountability system in 1999 that led to some ...

Accountability and management accounting have strong links, especially around performance reporting. Many approaches, such as the balanced scorecard and Ramanathan’s (1985) accountability framework, stem from management accounting research and practice. Accountability and performance measurement are linked inextricably; in fact, the interpretation of performance requires accountability as its r...

Notes Balancing the organisational approach is this paper on the need to retain accountability with the individual. Robert Wachter, who has written on this theme previously, reminds us that even while there is virtue in a blame-free approach, there is still an important role for accountability. He discusses relative roles of personal versus institutional accountability, and the degree to which ...