...Intranet Healthcare Products Luzy Zapata University of Phoenix Health Care Informatics HCS482 Richard Ong September 23, 2013 Intranet Healthcare products Areas of evaluation: Intranet Healthcare products: Intranet is a form of web service technology that allows for the use of software services. Intranet users are able to perform timely access to a wide variety of corporate information sources. In addition, the use of web-based applications will result in lowering costs and increasing the timeliness of the flow of information (Yen & Chu, 2001). Product 1 - Policy management software This includes the policy and procedure management distribution and acknowledgement programs. The policy and procedure enables the policy and procedure regulatory compliance, compliance training, and policy and procedure distribution. The use of this software allows for the ease of creating, revising, reviewing, and approval of policies and procedures. This eliminates the email, chains, and paper-based tracking. The software directs the policies and procedures to those that need to approve it. It tracks and reminds them on the need to review it. At a single glance, one can view the status of the policies. The intranet’s powerful search enables the nurse to find the items quickly by entering a keyword with the use of the software. The software has the ad-hoc reports, role-based access, and can be totally controlled by the compliance department (Care Converge, 2013). Product...
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...In business, it’s not about the last decade. It’s about the last 2-3 years. In the past few years, the rate of change in regards to technology has increased drastically. Businesses processes have evolved and made organizations far more efficient than they ever were. Along with that technology has opened lines of communication, enabling businesses to communicate and collaborate beyond limitations and boundaries. Collaboration and cooperation is going to be the future of business competitiveness, with companies becoming more innovative, more connected to people, and overall proactive in the "flattened" marketplace of today's high tech economy. IT has additionally produced incredible benefits. Automation in manufacturing has sharply decreased price and lead periods as rising quality. Militaries of paper-shuffling clerks have been released to present higher value-adding hobbies (or have been fired) by the placement of technologies such as workflow as airlines, financial services, and telecos are wholly dependent on IT for their core deal processing functions. On a more humble scale, individual users or company departments have utilized a collection of productivity instruments to enhance and enrich their presentations and working environments. Technology is transforming change at its core, permitting firms to examine new thoughts at speeds and costs that were unimaginable even a decade ago. They can stick features on Web pages and notify in hours how clients respond. They can discern...
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...Budget The budget is projected over three quarters as indicated below. Additional monetary resources will budgeted in accordance with long-term phased implementation plan. Quarter Projected Budget Projected Profit/Loss Projected Website Rank 1 $90,000 ($22,000) 39 2 $50,000 $210,000 22 3 $65,000 $407,000 13 Resources Primus Securities will hire technology professionals. The technology team will initially include a system administrator, webmaster, and a maintenance programmer, and it should be expanded as necessary in the future. As new features are being implemented, the team would grow to potentially include more programmers, a system architect, a graphics designer, a database administrator, etc. A major benefit of in house development of projects is that the ability to customize features to the exact desired specifications and to continually fine tune the system. If there is an aggressive timeline or a limited budget, an alternative would be to contract with an outside vendor to create the website but beware of the following risks involved: X Website Solution. There is often a tendency to get a more ¡§cookie cutter¡¨ solution. The website would not be unique enough for customers to recognize the benefits versus those of its competitors. X Service Level Agreement. Vendor may fail to meet the company¡¦s requirements and expectations of SLA. X Rate Fluctuations. Negotiated rate may not be the same from project to project. X Security Risks. There may be security...
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...be dealt with. This issue not included a major announcement about voluntary severance and early retirement, but the fact that the CEO Linda Bosworth would not be present when the announcement of this new program would be made. Communication is the center of both of these issues. While Westwood Publishing obviously has forms of communication; memo’s and an intranet site; updated forms of communication would be helpful in both these cases. Stated in the case is that the intranet site is not updated on a regular basis, therefore town hall meetings and memos are used to deliver messages to the employees. The first issue is the fact that this program would force some employees into early retirement, a change that would not be received well by the employees and the fact that the CEO Linda Bosworth would not be present when the announcement would be made. It is said that large companies are already perceived as being faceless and unfeeling, and this is compounded when there is no upward communication from employees to management. (Argenti, 2009) Part one of the advice given would be to improve upon updating the company’s intranet site, as well as investing in new ways of communication. The advice given to Cassidy would be to ask CEO Linda Bosworth to reconsider being present in some form during the announcement of the voluntary severance and early retirement plan. Cassidy could suggest that Bosworth be present by venue of a web conference, in which she could be seen by the employees as...
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...are currently kept in a file cabinet that is accessible to staff to use as reference and a learning tool. Employees can search the research that has been done on certain topics pertaining to the products. This saves time for the employees performing the tasks and helps the employee to forecast the possible results of certain issues. This also prevents mistakes from the past being made again, resulting in a variety of outcomes that could have been prevented if that past knowledge was present. The Sales database includes the 15-20 major customers of the company; this includes a government contract for fans. According to the intranet site, the company also has 12 minor customers that they service. With this system, each member of the sales department is responsible for maintaining their portion of the database. As it states in the intranet site, there is an inconsistency in the method of the record taking by the various employees. To obtain consistency, there needs to be one database, and one method of input. Management should agree on one system, preferably one that is integrated with the rest of the systems of the company. There should also be an agreement of one method; electronic or paper and pencil. The production records and the profit and loss statements are pieces of information that is also supported by the finance department; the suggestion for those items is...
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...newly hired systems analyst, you will report to Jesse Baker, systems group manager. The systems group handles application development, software solutions, and operation systems. You will work on various projects, handle assignments, and practice the skills you learned in each text chapter. Using the Case The SCR Associates case study is a Web-based simulation that allows you to practice your skills in a real-world environment. This case study transports you to SCR's company intranet, where you can complete 12 work sessions, each aligning with a chapter from the textbook. All 12 sessions share a common pool of resources, so you can start the case in Session 1 or begin at any convenient point. As you work on the case, you will receive e-mail, voice mail messages, complete a list of tasks, explore the company Internet site, and access information from company libraries. Logging-on to SCR's Intranet site Click here to access SCR's company Intranet. You will need to log into this site by doing the following: Type your first name in the First Name text field. Next, type your last name in the Last Name text field. Type your password (the password is located in the preface of the textbook) in the Password text field. While you are typing in the password, the letters will not appear on the screen; instead, stars will be substituted for characters. Finally, click the Login button to enter the SCR...
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...INTRANET DEVELOPMENT Internal Communication Platform An intranet provides a secure centralised resource for key business information and procedures, and is a common platform for internal communication which can bind together many processes and data in the dealership or group. The Intranet used in our dealershipcomes with a number of modules that highly customisable, allowing it to be be adjusted and expanded so that it exactly fits the company's needs. Intranet modules include: * HR Documentation * Document Store * Time and Attendance * Shared Calendars * Communication Platform * News and Announcements * Company Information * Performance Reporting * Interaction and Feedback * Daily Operating Controls HR Documentation Enables Human Resources department to centralise all company documentation for internal and staff use. Store documents such as: * Health and Safety Information * Staff Handbooks * Staff Policies and Procedures * Healthcare forms All in one centralised document storage facility.Create a fully audited workflow procedures e.g.to enable staff to request annual leave and automatically submit it to their manager for approval. Time and Attendance Centralised HR Attendance information. * Provides HR and managerial level control and transparency to monitor daily attendance for members of staff and to view at a glance attendance, annual and compassionate leave for multiple employees over an extended...
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...INTRODUCTION There's something about new technologies that makes people give them awkward and contrived labels. Extranets are no exception. First, there was the Internet, a reasonable enough name for a wonderful basket of technologies. Then came Intranets as a play on the Internet name. An Intranet is like a small private Internet living within the confines of an organization. Employee manuals, access to accounting and a variety of similar internal matters are all now frequently entrusted to a company's Intranet. However, when early adapters began giving selected outsiders access to parts of their Intranets and creating private online communications tools for visitors, customers and clients, some Intranets stopped looking all that, well, intra. Inevitably, someone coined the word "Extranet" to describe these new tools and techniques, and the name stuck. Big deal. Just another addition to the opaque jargon of the computer world. True, but if you dig into the concept a bit, there emerges a promising idea of real utility to law firms: the reduction or elimination of barriers between clients and lawyers, or in other words – the ability to communicate better with clients with much less effort. Where time is increasingly at a premium, it only makes sense for lawyers to learn a little something about what Extranets can do for their practices. Extranets: the Basics So here’s the first thing to understand. Extranets are not really a thing so much as they are a service—the service...
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...the business. For example, at the end of a year businesses will need to pull old records and reports so that they can make predictions for future profit and pay their taxes to the government. Records may be pulled to set new sales goals and pay employees accordingly. Technology and information management is the back bone of any business. At my place of work, Nextiva, a VoIP provider we use various information technology systems to process, organize, store and analyze the information we use on a day to day basis. The first system used is our intranet, called NextOS. The NextOS Intranet portal is an internal network in which employees can find information needed to run the day to day operations, and also houses the configuration side of our customers accounts, as well as the customers user settings and devices on their side also. Then we have the screen connect client, which is used to remote into our clients and customers on-site computer networks to help get their system ready for our VoIP services. Most home networks do not require much tuning or configuring for our services, however larger businesses and those that are using firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPN) require changing settings like port triggering and access rules, and the screen connect client is what helps takes the hard part...
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...Riordan Manufacturing Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer with about 550 employees. Riordan Manufacturing is owned by Riordan Industries, a fortune 1000 company based in California with more than one billion in total revenues. Chemistry professor Dr. Riordan founded the company in 1991, and it has grown to a global organization with locations in Michigan, Georgia, and China. Riordan Manufacturing placed a service request for their regional branches to review existing business systems. All areas within the organization are using various business systems, all of which represent challenges. The organization needs to identify problem areas and integrate solutions. The current systems differ at each location creating compatibility issues; the Michigan plant's application system developer is no longer in business leaving no access to updates or troubleshooting. San Jose accounting application contains no source code eliminating the ability to modify the program. The F&A department's data are provided from various data files; some data is in hard copy and must be re-entered; other data files must be converted to the corresponding account codes. Turnaround time on Income Statements and Balance sheets (based on the man hours required to complete the task) takes too long; resulting in laborious monthly audits. Sales and Marketing plans to consolidate customer information are done using a CRM system, which uses Historical Sales, Past Marketing Plans and Research...
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...that encompasses all of the buisness' training courses to the local intranet with in house shopping. We call this new system Aim High; which is what we did, and we feel it will satisfy all of your needs and even wants in an information system. Now you may be wondering what exactly Aim High does, well let me tell you somethings about it. It starts off by being a local intranet for Riordan, letting you access the internet from anywhere on the premises. Aim high also comes fully equiped with Wi-Fi functionality so you aren't strictly confined to your office all day. Now for the executives we have included an optional package within the Aim High system which lets you turn your company laptop or tablet into a mobile hotspot so you can do business from anywhere around the globe. Now the internet will be a fully functional world wide web, with the option to restrict access of websites to certain levels of authority within the company. Aim High also allows to setup online classes for any training courses Riordan may offer. Part of this system includes setting up an employee profile which in turn allows you to sign up your employees for any courses they need to take, and courses they have previously taken. You may be thinking why take the classes online. Well there are a couple of benefits to online learning; just think about all the money Riordan will be saving by not having to send its employees to an off-site training facility to take these classes. Online learning also lets...
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...Running Head: ABC COMPANY CODE OF ETHICS 1 ABC Company Code of Ethics Brian P. Bennetti Western Governors University ABC COMPANY CODE OF ETHICS 2 ABC Company Code of Ethics Section I: Introduction ABC Company (the Company) strives to achieve the highest levels of integrity throughout all levels of its organization. This document will serve as a guide to the expectations set forth within. We must always act as professionals and treat our stakeholders with honor and respect. It is the expectation of the Company that the policies outlined in this document be followed without deviation. There are several values we must embrace as an organization to fully realize the values that set us apart from others in the industry. Section II will specify these values. Section II: Standard and Policies Standards: · Trustworthiness – All employees shall demonstrate a trustworthy attitude with regard to their everyday duties. ABC COMPANY CODE OF ETHICS 3 · Respect – All employees will treat any and all, fellow employees, clients, vendors, suppliers, and business partners with respect. Treat others as you would like to be treated. · Fairness - All employees will treat any and all, fellow employees, clients, vendors, suppliers...
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...Cisco systems Architecture: ERP and Web-Enabled IT Case Introduction and Background and analysis of the Business Cisco Systems, a Global leading company that manufactures and markets Internet Protocol (IP) equipment, uses routers to send digital and voice data over the Internet. Founded in 1984 by three former Stanford University Students, Cisco first found early success by targeting Government agencies, Universities, and the Aerospace industry. In 1998, Cisco began targeting big businesses and other agencies. Cisco did their Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 1990. However, disagreement between founding partners led to two of the founding members parting ways with the company. In 1994, Cisco suffered another major setback: “Cisco’s legacy environment failed so dramatically that shortcomings of the existing systems could no long be ignored” (Nolan, 2005, p.4). However, after costly repairs and creating a brand new IT platform architecture, Cisco was able to recover and continued to move forward. Cisco immediately began expanding by acquiring smaller entities which expanded the company’s market share. In 1998, Cisco successfully reach the coveted $100 billion landmark. Over the next two years, Cisco continued to expand and “acquired more than 20 companies, including wireless network equipment maker Aironet. With a market capitalization exceeding $500 billion, Cisco enjoyed a turn as the world’s most valuable company in 2000” (Hoover, 2012, p.1.) Cisco’s product’s mix includes;...
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...their network and data is secure, GFI has begun to re-evaluate their network infrastructure. GFI has had some service interruptions that has cost them over $100,000 in revenue losses. Description of GFI’s Network, Interconnection and Communication environment Global Finance Inc. Network The Internet is made up of two 10GB connections. Remote Dial up access via PSTN VPN gateway connected to an Off-Site office A DMZ network which is made up of 2 Border (Core) routers, which are connected to the 2 10GB internet connections. 2 Distribution Routers. 1 VPN gateway, 1 firewall, 1 RMS server and a PBX box that is connected to the PSTN remote access dial up network. Above is a table that list the six departments. There is also a breakdown of the workstations and 26 printers per department. There are 6 10GB Access Layer VLAN switches and 3 10GB Multi-Layer switches There is also a Trusted Computing Base Internal Network that is locate inside of Global Finance Inc. Network that is made up of 1 SUS Server, 1Oracle 9i DB Server, 1 Microsoft 2000 Exchange Email Server, 1 File and Print Server, 1 Intranet Web Server and 7 Workstations. Assess risk based on the Global Finance, Inc. Network Diagram scenario The GFI network diagram depicts how fast the company in relation to the amount of network devices and other equipment. GFI network seems to be built to be...
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...A REPORT ON ICT ARCHITECTURE AND SECURITY Prepared for: Justin Debuse Submitted: 31. October 2008 Prepared by: André Nordal Sylte University of the Sunshine Coast Word count: 1665 Executive summary This report, authorised by Justin Debuse in Introduction to ICT, BUS108, looks at ICT architecture and security in an organisation. This report found that the major security threats within an organisation’s ICT are; Cracking into an organisation’s wireless intranet in search for vital corporate information; Former employees accessing wireless intranets and extranets without authorization; Information sent via an extranet could be intercepted in its transit; Viruses and Trojans accidentally downloaded by employees and been spread around the LAN. Solutions to these threats are; WiFi protected access (WPA) password and hide the network; ICTs should be protected with a login screen for the users; To secure an extranet, organisations should use a virtual private network (VPN); Any organisation should provide basic training in how to detect viruses and Trojans. This is a proactive way to prevent an infection in a whole organisation’s LAN. This report also found that the major legal and ethical issues within an organisation’s ICT are; Employee monitored by computer technology and in the building; Privacy on e-mail stored on an organisation’s computer; Illegal and offensive use of an organisation’s...
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