Agent Compliance State

A Agent Compliance State is an agent state that indicates whether an agent (including organizations, individuals, systems, and processes) meets required standards, regulations, or rules.

• AKA: Conformance, Adherence, Rule Adherence.
• Context:
  • It can characterize Entity State through compliance verification.
  • It can qualify Entity Capability through compliance certification.
  • It can determine Entity Authorization through compliance status.
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  • It can often apply to Organization Types through organizational requirements:
    • Corporate Compliance for business regulation.
    • Government Agency Compliance for public sector requirement.
    • Non-Profit Compliance for charitable organization rule.
  • It can often govern Organization Structure through structural requirements:
    • Department Compliance for unit operation.
    • Branch Compliance for location operation.
    • Subsidiary Compliance for legal entity operation.
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  • It can range from being a Binary Compliance to being a Graduated Compliance, depending on its measurement approach.
  • It can range from being a Temporary Compliance to being a Permanent Compliance, depending on its duration requirement.
  • It can range from being a Partial Compliance to being a Full Compliance, depending on its scope coverage.
  • It can range from being a Negative Compliance to being a Neutral Compliance to being a Positive Compliance, depending on its compliance level.
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  • It can have Organizational Exception during business continuity event.
  • It can have Entity Waiver for special circumstance.
  • It can have Compliance Override under authorized supervision.
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• Examples:
  • Organization Compliances, such as:
    • Corporate Compliances, such as:
      • Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance for financial reporting.
      • HIPAA Compliance for healthcare organization.
    • Industry Compliances, such as:
      • ISO Certification Compliance for quality management.
      • Environmental Compliance for pollution control.
  • Entity Compliances, such as:
    • Individual Compliances, such as:
      • Professional License Compliance for practitioner requirement.
      • Training Compliance for skill requirement.
    • System Compliances, such as:
      • Technical Standard Compliance for system requirement.
      • Security Protocol Compliance for protection requirement.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Agent Conformity, which is voluntary adherence rather than required compliance.
  • Agent Performance, which measures effectiveness rather than rule adherence.
  • Agent Compatibility, which addresses functional fit rather than rule satisfaction.
  • Agent Certification, which validates compliance rather than being compliance itself.
• See: Compliance Process, Compliance Event, Compliance Control, Standard, Regulation, Rule, Audit, Organization, Corporate Governance, Act of Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Regulation, Clinical Trial Regulatory Compliance.

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References

2023

• (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance#Healthcare Retrieved:2023-4-26.
  • Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment
  • Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning)
    • Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure
  • Compliance (psychology), responding favorably to a request offered by others

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