Case Study

McGraw-Hill/Irwin

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Group Case Study

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Rough Drafts Due: 16th Feb

Final Submission: 23rd Feb

Deadlines

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Deliverables

• Schematic
• Excel Worksheet
• Written Report

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Topics to Cover

• Software
• Hardware
• Database
• Social Media
• Schematic

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Software

• List out the software requirements for the medical practice – what kind of software would they use - operating systems, server software, cloud services, vertical/horizontal software etc.
• Find the approximate number of licenses that would be required and what would be the cost of implementing your plan

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Hardware

• Find out what & how many devices would be required by the medical practice – you could describe the number of computing devices and networking devices used to connect them all – what would you do in cases of communication failures etc
• You would have to find the costs of each equipment that you use in your medical practice and ensure you operate at optimum efficiencies while reducing costs

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Database

• What database architecture would you use to store the medical records – consider future demands when you opt for a selection

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Social Media

• Describe how social media would be used in your medical practice

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Schematic

• The schematic would be a birds-eye view of the entire system.
• You would be making a diagram of all the computing devices and their interconnections in a particular location of the medical practice
• You would also be making the organization chart for how the entire medical practice is laid out in the US
• Suggest improvements to the current architecture and suggest a scheme which would be best optimized for the medical practice.

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Expectations

• Suggest you to search on the net to find the various architectures in use today - research & compare to select the best ones. You would also get the costs of the devices online.
  
• We expect that the solutions you design would cater to the needs that the medical practice might have in the future. For e.g. consider horizontal or vertical expansion.