AUDITING DATABASE ACCESS IN A DISTRIBUTED MEDICAL COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT

Auditing database access in a distributed medical computing environment includes receiving from a user a query of one or more databases within the distributed medical administration computing environment; determining by an audit manager in dependence upon audit policies for the medical computing environment whether any of the results of the query require auditing access; and if any of the results of the query require auditing access, creating an audit record and storing the audit record in an audit database.