Maintaining high levels of safety under conditions of ever increasing air traffic is a challenging task. Failures to comply with safety-related regulations are often considered to be important contributors to safety occurrences. To address the issue of compliance, approaches based on external regulation of the employees’ behavior were proposed. Unfortunately, an externally imposed control is of...

Organizations, such as hospitals and financial institutions, that use privacy-sensitive information face the challenge of complying with privacy regulations and their own privacy policies. These regulations and policies are often written in natural language (or legalese), making it difficult for information systems to aid in assuring compliance. In this thesis, we propose a formal language for ...

In complying with the HIPAA security regulations, the large, multi-site academic radiology department is quite different from the small, private radiology practice. This article compares and contrasts the methods each of these two model organizations use to achieve compliance. In common between the two organizations is that complete documentation of the procedures and processes involved in data...