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Impact of Technologies on Healthcare Tamika Brown

Sherry Grover

HAS 315: Health Information Systems

June 9, 2019

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Executive Summary Information technology in healthcare has become more advanced in the current age and this has led to changes in the industry.

In this regard, healthcare systems have improved and thus, organizational competitiveness and performance is at an all time high.

This presentation highlights the various issues and advantages that healthcare enjoys due to information systems used in the industry.

Types of Information Systems and their impact on healthcare information systems

1 A transaction processing system (TPS) is an information system that captures and processes data about business transactions.

A management information system (MIS) is an information system that provides for management-oriented reporting based on transaction processing and operations of the organization.

A decision support system (DSS) is an information system that either helps to identify decision making opportunities or provides information to help make decisions.

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Teaching Notes

These definitions can be useful to help students understand what an information system is in all its varieties and flavors. Depending on the prerequisites of your course, you may want to cover these in more or less detail.

These information systems are however integral in th edelivery of healthcare due to a variety of reasons. For one, they influence the decisions of most healthcare organizations and secondly, they allow for ease of sharing of information between the various departments and therefore, make healthcare delivery better.

Thee technologies therefore have a significant impact on healthcare.

Systems Thinking Example

The figure above describes a basic strategic information system plan where the main steps are displayed.

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2 Information Security Policy, Standards and Practices

Management from all communities of interest must consider policies as the basis for all information security efforts

3 Policies direct how issues should be addressed and technologies used

2 Security policies are the least expensive control to execute, but the most difficult to implement

Shaping policy is difficult because:

Never conflict with laws

4 Stand up in court, if challenged

Be properly administered

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2 Information Security Policy, Standards and Practices

3 Management from all communities of interest must consider policies as the basis for all information security planning, design, and deployment.

In general, policies direct how issues should be addressed and technologies used, not cover the specifics on the proper operation of equipment or software.

2 Quality security programs begin and end with policy.

5 As information security is primarily a management rather than technical problem, policy guides personnel to function in a manner that will add to the security of its information assets.

2 Security policies are the least expensive control to execute, but the most difficult to implement.

Shaping policy is difficult because it must:

1) Never conflict with laws.

4 2) Stand up in court, if challenged.

3) Be properly administered, including thorough dissemination, and documentation from personnel showing they have read the policies.

Example Policy

Security and Privacy

Security

How will the business continue in the even of a security breach, terrorist attack, or disaster?

How can the business protect its digital assets from outside threats?

Privacy

Consumer demands for privacy in e-commerce transactions

Government requirements

Impact on information systems

Need to incorporate stringent security and privacy controls

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Teaching Notes

With the growth of e-commerce and e-business, security and privacy have become much more important.

With globalization information systems must comply with security and privacy laws of multiple countries. What if the security laws of one country conflicts with the privacy laws of another?

6 Security Defenses Encryption – data transmitted in scrambled form and unscrambled by computer systems for authorized users only

Firewalls – a gatekeeper system that protects a company’s intranets and other computer networks from intrusion by providing a filter and safe transfer point for access to and from the Internet and other networks

Impact Information System Plans on Organizational competitiveness and Performance Information System is critical to the organization.

Various functional areas of an organization may be using Information System plans Effective system development requires detailed planning and team work.

IS designed with specific performance and cost objectives.

These Information Systems influence important areas of an organization and therefore, they lead to improved performed and overall competitiveness.

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