Success and costs of audits in identity management largely depend on the structure of the underlying access control model. Auditing access rights includes the determination of actuality and adequacy of provided access rights. In order to ease audit and administration of access rights, role mining approaches have provided several solutions for identifying a minimal set of roles based upon either...

The analysis and evaluation of knowledge management processes is an important area of interest in research and business. Companies currently are required to analyze and to audit its knowledge management processes. This stems from a requirement to comply with Data Protection Laws in respective countries and companies ́ desire to optimize its critical processes. Both companies and the marketplace ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the Flinders Program™ of chronic condition management on alcohol use, psychosocial well-being and quality of life in Vietnam veterans with alcohol misuse. METHOD This 9-month wait-list, randomised controlled trial used the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score ≥ 8 as the entry criterion. Intervention veterans received the Flinders Progra...

Lying at the elementary stage of relevant research, China is still lacking in modern performance audit methods fit for commercial banks. This paper aims at applying data enveloping analysis in the linear programming theory as well as benchmarking management to commercial banks to effectively improve the efficiency and quality of their performance audit. In addition, the application of this meth...

Community rapid response and rehabilitation teams are used to prevent avoidable hospital admissions for adults living with multiple long-term conditions and to support early hospital discharge by providing short-term intensive multidisciplinary support. Supporting self-management is an important service intervention if desired outcomes are to be achieved. A Care Quality Commission inspection of...

Collection, storage and analysis of multiple hosts’ audit trails in a distributed manner are known as a major requirement, as well as a major challenge for enterprise-scale computing environments. To ease these tasks, and to provide a central management facility, a software-suit, named as “LogHunter” has been developed. Log-Hunter is a secure distributed log server system which involves log col...

In the field of maternity and newborn care there has been a long tradition of monitoring outcomes of care and a growing interest in ensuring that care given to women and their babies is effective and efficient. The methods for achieving this have not, however, been a formal part of national and local health policy and management. Recent changes in the NHS have been accompanied by policy stateme...

District nurses spend about 25–65% of their time caring for patients with leg ulcers, with staff time and wound management costs continually rising (Thambiaya, 1996). In the North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) tissue viability service, a recent internal case load audit was completed for the Essex integrated care directorate. This audit identified 67% of the referrals are for venous leg u...

In the wake of financial frauds and related audit issues, the US Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley (SARBOX) Act of 2002. Key to becoming SARBOX compliant are information systems (IS) that satisfy the mandates regarding internal controls, corporate governance, and fraud detection. These legal developments focusing senior management's attention on (1) internal controls are present and functionin...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) views Health Information Technology (HIT) as an essential organizational prerequisite for the delivery of safe, reliable, and cost-effective health services. However, HIT presents the proverbial double-edged sword in generating solutions to improve system performance while facilitating the genesis of novel iatrogenic problems. Incongruent organizational processes...