Intellectual Property in Information Technology

HCA 446 - Healthcare Informatics

Spring 2017 (3 credit hour course)

Instructions for Individual Essay

You will prepare a report on some topic related to Information Technology. This topic must be one

provided by the instructor. We will select topics in the first class. You may use the most recent APA

edition formatting style. Any other style should be approved prior to handing in your report. This report

will be submitted electronically in a format that can be read in MS Word. I only need one copy of the

report from each student.

Each Report will be expected to have the following:

1. Research and prepare 4-5 page report double spaced on your topic.

2. In addition, include a bibliography using the most recent APA edition formatting style

3. Include sections that introduce the topic, provide background material, analyze available data,

provide your opinion and industry opinion, and make a conclusion.

4. Be sure and answer the questions who what, where, how, and why

5. Definition of key concepts, models, steps in the process, etc.

6. Include at least one page on the impact of your topic to healthcare.

Evaluation Criteria

Evaluation for grade

1. Clear and accurate definitions of concepts

2. Appropriateness of bibliography

3. Organization of essay

Example topics:

Project Management, Agile Development Methodology, Waterfall Development Methodology, Mobile

Technology, Service Level Agreements, IT Vendor Contracting, Information Technology Infrastructure

Library, Offshore Development, Big Data Analytics, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Internet of

Things, Software as a Service (SaaS), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), IT Contingency Planning, The

Cloud, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model, JavaScript

Object Notation (JSON), Clearinghouses, Syntactic and Semantic Validation, Interoperability, Data

Encryption, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Wireless Networking, Data Storage Infrastructure, ISO/IEC

20000 Certification, Platform Architecture, Social Platforms, Data Security, Data Privacy, User

Experience, 3D Printing, Team Collaboration Software Tools (i.e. Sharepoint), Relational Database

Software, Intellectual Property in Information Technology