audit tool

A generic term for any (usually computerised) instrument (e.g., Formic’s Fusion software), which may be used to capture data so that audit departments can undertake audit projects including document audits, essence of care audits, infection-control audits, identified risk audits, local priority monitoring, national audits, NICE guideline compliance audits, National Service Framework compliance, Standards for Better Health and Commissioner assurance.

Audit tools improve precision in the audit process, relieving pressure on resources within clinical audit departments, and providing an automated mechanism for accurately processing survey forms.

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For example, a group of community or elementary school volunteers may use the audit tool to assess streets and intersections within a mile of a target school.

An assessment of GIS-enabled walkability audits

Celtic Recipes also includes a self audit tool to identify marketing strengths and weaknesses and to develop a practical marketing action plan.

Food for thought from Celtic cousins

Another audit tool is the focus group, which can probe more deeply into the attitudes of customers, employees, volunteers and community residents.

Protecting a valuable asset: your reputation

Helium Networks, Inc., Pittsburgh, has launched SiteStumbler, a cost-effective, entry-level wireless site survey and audit tool that enables users to visualize and map 802.11 a/b/g wireless LAN (WLAN) networks, along with performing a variety of simulations.

HELIUM NETWORKS LAUNCHES SITESTUMBLER WIRELESS SITE AUDIT TOOL

If you don't know the answer, the College Industry Council on Material Handling Education (CICMHE) has just released an audit tool that can help.

Metrics: materials handling audit tool available

An audit tool that provides baseline information through an initial assessment and tracks progress over time can best support values-based emergency prevention efforts.

Auditing disaster prevention: an auditing process can help employers use their corporate values to infuse respect, tolerance, and civility into employees' behaviors and thus prevent workplace emergencies arising from violence

Profiler Rx functions as an audit tool to examine an enterprise's data stores in order to groom data and to establish policies for backup and archiving, and it generates customizable or off-the-shelf reports on the status and success of backups.

Storage analysis

An audit tool will be developed, with staff and delegates educated on how to use it next month.

Continuing the fair share for aged-care campaign

"Using ISO 15489 as an Audit Tool" The Information Management Journal 38, No.

A national response to ISO 15489: a case study of the Jamaican experience: a group of records management professionals in Jamaica joined forces to determine how they could best use ISO 15489, the international records management standard, to advance RIM

The Webroot Corporate Spy Audit tool enables corporations to assess the risk level their orgazusations face from spyware infections.

Increase in spyware infiltration

The IDS in this case can only serve as an audit tool of events that might help to reconstruct the attack and indicate the extent of the compromise.

Vulnerability management technology: a powerful alternative to attack management for networks. (Storage Networking)

The router audit tool checks router configurations against the settings defined in the benchmark and produces a report listing each rule checked with a pass/fail score, a raw overall score, a weighted overall score, a list of IOS commands that will correct the problems identified, and a composite report listing all settings checked on all devices.

Strengthening router security. (Tech Talk)