Good governance in the public sector implies high accountability levels. Accountability is a multidimensional concept that includes quantity and reliability of disclosures as well rendering accounts to citizenry. Nowadays, good governance, accountability, financial performance are key for long-term sustainability autonomous organizations. The objective this paper study how features relate quali...

Science is now being revolutionized by the capabilities of distributing computation and human effort over the World Wide Web. This revolution offers dramatic benefits but also poses serious risks due to the fluid nature of digital information. The Web today does not provide adequate repeatability, reliability, accountability and trust guarantees for scientific applications. One important part o...

Single self-adaptive systems can now be built, but systematic methods should be developed for building these systems. Systematic methods require good models for prediction, control, error detection/fault diagnosis, and optimization. Models must describe behavior at different time and detail scales, for different tasks (e.g., energy, error detection) and for different degrees of accuracy. Models...

Background: Social accountability in the schools of medicine is very important. It is an essence to recognize the methods and models used and implemented in the world in order to make use of the results and experiences. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to review some models of social accountability in the world. Methods: The key words, including social accountability, faculty of ...

This rule proposes standards for electronically requesting and supplying particular types of additional health care information in the form of an electronic attachment to support submitted health care claims data. It would implement some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

The purpose of this article is to examine the passwords selected by health care professionals and the security and privacy standards in relationship to those passwords as addressed by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). Examinations of these passwords have illustrated the connectivity between password length and strength and the need to educate employees as ...

The purpose of the HIPAA Privacy Rules was to create national standards to protect the privacy of personal health information. As of April 14, 2003, all covered health care entities must comply with the newly implemented national standards. The importance of staying updated with the law, while particularly important for the patient's privacy, is just as important for the nurse to avoid civil pu...