Step 2: Mark Site Within the OR when the patient is present and prior to beginning the procedure, OR staff must verbally confirm through a “time out”: presence of the correct patient *patient properly positioned* marking of the correct site and side procedure to be performed availability of the correct implant OR staff shall ask the patient to state (NOT confirm): their full name full SSN or da...

Medical records are becoming fully computerized; technical, administrative and economic forces are pushing toward standardization on a single identifier, such as the Social Security Number (SSN) to index all records; consequently, the privacy and security of our medical histories will be severely compromised. We argue that there are sensible and effective technological means available to reduce...

T he integration of distributed computing and the object model leads to distributed object computing, in which objects rather than processes are distributed across multiple computers. A well-established standard for distributed object computing is the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA).1 Distributed object frameworks like CORBA have many attractive features but provide little sup...

background: in recent years, the concept of health security has received an international dimension. however, despite evident links between health and security the concept of health security is not used in either academic or political discourse in serbia. it comes as no surprise then that even though the issue of security challenges is present in serbian legislation, it has not been incorporate...

In CORBA-based applications that depend on object replication for fault tolerance, inconsistencies in the states of the replicas of an object can arise when concurrent threads within those replicas perform updates in di erent orders. By imposing a single logical thread of control on every replicated multithreaded CORBA client or server object, and by providing deterministic scheduling of thread...