Towards a Continuous Process Auditing Framework (Case study in Healthcare Auditing and Decision Support - Infection Regime Control Survey)

The complexity of modern digital information systems is continuously increasing as a by-product of increased system functionalities in various domains. The resultant sea of information at our disposal mandates for making informed, timely and verifiable decisions. Traditional human-based audits become a liability in pursuit of timely decisions as they fail to audit the individual process modules or the entire process chain critical for determining the efficiency of an entire complex system.;In this thesis we introduce the concept of Continuous Process Auditing (CPA) in digital systems. We propose an approach that audits the methodologies (processes) in a system used to achieve results. We use a communication mechanism and employ a weighting schema that accounts for the holistic nature of process chains and provides decision support to select alternate strategies to improve system efficiency. To demonstrate our approach we provide a case study based on a auditing a survey application and present our results.