Whitelist
A white list White List (from English whitelist ) or positive list, more rarely, white list, referred to in the Information technology - as opposed to a blacklist - a tool by which the same elements (such as individuals, companies or programs) are summarized, which are trustworthy in the opinion of the author of the list.
Software
Maintains an organization a white list for software, only the titles on this list are accepted for use. Problems can arise when a user needs software as part of its activity, which was not released by the organization.
If a spam filter a white list, it means that e- mails are always accepted by the persons listed.
Health
Another white list exists ( called White List, in this case) in the health sector. It offers patients assistance in finding the convenient for them the next or most appropriate hospital or doctor.
Background
It is driven by the Bertelsmann Foundation and patient and consumer organizations Patients Commissioner of the last government, Helga Kühn- Mengel, is the patron of the project. The health insurance AOK and Barmer GEK extended the project in May 2011 also on medical practices.
Scope
As the first step of the search in the " white list ", the " Diagnosis interpreter" offered, with the patient being examined can read a medical diagnosis in easily understandable German.
In the second step, a hospital search is performed. Here, the "White List" patients provides evidence of a proximal and medically appropriate hospital. For this, type the search ends their diagnostic and other data, such as the maximum allowable distance from home, in a search mask.
For the compilation of the result both own quality reports of hospitals and patient questionnaires are evaluated. While the official quality reports contain facts and figures about the clinics, such as the number of beds and operations, and call data to the qualifications of their doctors as well as the success of their treatments, the aim of the questionnaires on the experience of patients from: They are the expertise, the relationship with doctors and nurses to rate the service, the success of treatment and especially their willingness to recommend the hospital. A ranking of the hospitals are lacking, however. Rather, the "White List" help to ensure that patients targeted by personal criteria can opt for a clinic.
A doctor and dentist is also available.
A personal consulting service completes the offer. For telephone advice cooperates "White List" by its own account with the Independent Patient Counseling Germany (UPD ).
Media Education
A enlist broad political project promotes a white list of activities for kids. The address is: fragFINN.de.
Species protection
As a counterpart to the red list of endangered species, a white list of non- endangered species is regionally for Lower Saxony offered ( species protection in Lower Saxony). Lower Saxony is the region with the largest number of animals in the production (mammals, poultry and fish) in Germany.
Food Safety
In the area of food safety clarifies the white list palm oil on palm oil-containing products in food.
Review sites
A white list to reviews on the Internet is conducted to deal with fighting and amendments to data management in Internet of people and companies. It assesses the criteria processing time, type of response, type of post processing and response to repeated message of delete requests.