STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND AUDITING OF SNOMED HIERARCHIES USING ABSTRACTION NETWORKS

To comply with emerging privacy laws and regulations, it has become common for applications like electronic health records systems (EHRs) to collect access logs, which record each time a user (e.g., a hospital employee) accesses a piece of sensitive data (e.g., a patient record). Using the access log, it is easy to answer simple queries (e.g., Who accessed Alice’s medical record?), but this oft...

T he current auditing crisis of big business can provide useful lessons and suggestions for improving similar practices within the computer industry. Audit trails, whether computerbased or manually produced, typically form a significant part of the front-line defense for fraud detection and prevention within systems. Many of our security practices revolve around the generation and preservation ...

Tracking information of individuals is a useful input to many Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) applications. Consider the example of a smart emergency management application: once mobile first responders are continuously tracked, a precise and safe coordination of rescue missions is possible, and also mission logs can be created for audit purposes. However, continuously tracking users and storing...

sumer expectations and changing professionalpatient relationships. In the NHS, recent reforms involving, for example, the introduction of commissioning, clinical audit, and the patient's charter, have given an additional impetus to quality. Some of the Audit Commission's earlier work in quality of health care was outlined in the previous supplement'; this paper describes the commission's subseq...