Access control device, access control program, and access control method
An access control device (10) disclosed comprises a receiving unit (11), an analyzing unit (12), an access control unit (15), and a sending unit (16). The receiving unit (11) receives an e-mail from the source. If a file is attached to the e-mail, the analyzing unit (12) analyzes the texts of the file and identifies the user having access rights to the file from the analysis result. The access control unit (15) executes, on the file, an access control process corresponding to the user having access rights. The sending unit (16) attaches, to the e-mail, the file on which the access control process has been executed and sends it to the destination of the e-mail, instead of the file originally attached to the e-mail.
Despite the fact that since 1985 the government of Quebec increased by 5.75 % on average the amount of money spent on healthcare per year, little improvement was noted. It is obvious that an optimal use of resources is essential to reduce waiting times and provide safer and faster services to patients. The use of new technology can contribute to improve the healthcare system efficiency. Our study aims to assess the impact of a medication distribution technology on 1) the performance of a health and social services center’s pharmacy, 2) the performance of one care unit in a nursing home and on 3) the medication-use process safety. To measure performance we were inspired by the Lean approach. The results show that medication distribution technology is considered as an effective way to significantly detect medication errors, to allow nurses to focus more on patients and pharmacy to react more rapidly to changes in patient medications.