Modifying Without a Trace: High-level Audit Guidelines are Inadequate for Electronic Health Record Audit Mechanisms: Difference between revisions

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The United States Department of Justice’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative defines:
The United States Department of Justice’s Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative defines:


* ''non-repudiation'' &em; a technique used to ensure that someone performing an action on a computer cannot falsely deny that they performed that action. Non-repudiation provides undeniable proof that a user took a specific action<sup>[10]</sup>.
* ''non-repudiation'' &ndash; a technique used to ensure that someone performing an action on a computer cannot falsely deny that they performed that action. Non-repudiation provides undeniable proof that a user took a specific action<sup>[10]</sup>.


With software systems that manage protected, sensitive data (including EHR systems), a more-specific definition of non-repudiation is needed. We further define the following term based on the definition of non-repudiation above:
With software systems that manage protected, sensitive data (including EHR systems), a more-specific definition of non-repudiation is needed. We further define the following term based on the definition of non-repudiation above:


* ''user-based non-repudiation'' &dash; a techniques used to ensure that an authenticated user accountholder performing an action within a software system cannot falsely deny that they performed that action.
* ''user-based non-repudiation'' &ndash; a techniques used to ensure that an authenticated user accountholder performing an action within a software system cannot falsely deny that they performed that action.
 
B&ouml;ck, et al., identify four primary concerns regarding software audit mechanism reliability<sup>[1]</sup>:


== 3. Related Work ==
== 3. Related Work ==