Medicine is critically dependent on accurate comprehensive data for good clinical management, audit, teaching, research, administration, financial control, general management, and statutory and legal needs. Computer technology offers solutions to the huge accumulations of clinical data in specialty and hospital medicine, yet it has not been fully exploited. The UK Audit Commission, US Institute...

Introduction There are now many definitions of medical audit, varying from that of Working Paper 6, through those of various authors on the topic, to that of a lay member of our health authority who commented that "medical audit is asking the questions the patient would ask if they knew what questions to ask". From these definitions certain key attributes of medical audit may be gleaned. First,...

Prior studies evidence the influence of organizational culture on the behavior of the individual and the organization and indicated that organizational culture is required for successful development of current organizations. In this context, culture has a key role in the manner which employees behave, communicate, relate and cooperate with their peers and their successful performance. Moreover,...

Submission for the Paper Misuse Detection in Database Systems Through User Profiling Christina Yip Chung, Michael Gertz, Karl Levitt Department of Computer Science, University of California at Davis {chungy| gertz | levitt @cs.ucdavis.edu} Topic Categories: Misuse/anomaly detection Data mining New IDS methodologies and technologies Christina Yip Chung Ms. Chung received her B.Sci.(Computer Scie...

OBJECTIVE Translation of evidence into practice by health systems can be slow and incomplete and may disproportionately impact disadvantaged populations. Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death among Aboriginal Australians. Timely access to effective medical care for acute coronary syndrome substantially improves survival. A quality-of-care audit conducted at a regional Western Aus...

Retrospective security has become increasingly important to the theory and practice of cyber security, with auditing a crucial component of it. However, in systems where auditing is used, programs are typically instrumented to generate audit logs using manual, ad-hoc strategies. This is a potential source of error even if log analysis techniques are formal, since the relation of the log itself ...

The most advanced cement manufacturing technology does not, on its own, guarantee profitable operations. The cement manufacturing operation for maximum cost efficiency not only requires the advanced technological design but also sound operational practices. Operational Audit is an effective way for enhancing the productivity and minimising energy consumption. The objectives of a comprehensive o...

The contemporary organizations develop business processes in a very complex environment. The IT&C technologies are used by organizations to improve their competitive advantages. But, the IT&C technologies are not perfect. They are developed in an iterative process and their quality is the result of the lifecycle activities. The audit and evaluation processes are required by the increased comple...

Data replication is a widely used technique for achieving fault tolerance and improved performance. With the advent of content delivery networks, it is becoming more and more frequent that data content is placed on hosts that are not directly controlled by the content owner, and because of this, security mechanisms to protect data integrity are necessary. In this paper we present a system archi...