Project Question

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Project Question 1

• -Which information system planning matrices might
  assist the study team at Mountain view Community
  Hospital to determine a tiered location plan for
  databases? Why?

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Answer 1

• A BUSINESS FUNCTION-to-ENTITY matrix would help
  you figure out what functions maintain certain
  kinds of data.
• A LOCATION-to-FUNCTION matrix would help show
  what locations the functions are performed at.

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Project Question 2

• Objectives are listed for one of the four
  critical success factors of the Mountain View
  Community Hospital, operating cost control.
  Write plausible objectives, given the structure
  and plans of the hospital, for the other three
  critical success factors.

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Quality of Medical Care

• Hire more trained staff to be able to offer
  better service and reduce customer complaints
• Make sure the doctors and nurses are all
  certified and keep up-to-date on new
  breakthroughs
• Equip facilities with technologically advanced
  equipment that offers the highest quality of
  medical care available.

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Recruitment and Retention of Skilled Personnel

• Recruit from top medical schools.
• Offer fair salaries and good insurance plans.
• Offer employee perks, such as, vacation time and
  scholarships.

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Control Capital Costs

• Dont use name brand medicine.
• Cut costs by penny pinching.
• Dont let employees work over-time.

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Question 3

• What additional activities might occur within the
  Volunteering business function?
• Assign projects for volunteers
• Reward volunteers
• Schedule volunteers
• Evaluate volunteers

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Question 4

• What activities might occur within the risk
  management business function?
• employees and volunteers, personnel training, a
  disaster plan, back up system, backup facility
  and location, safety drills.

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Question 5

• What additional data entities, besides the 10
  entities mentioned in this case, might the risk
  management business function need?
• The Mountain View Community Hospital might need a
  record of emergency evacuation plans and actions,
  and emergency vehicles on hand.

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Question

• What would another business function be that the
  study team did not include in its preliminary
  list?
• Employee Benefits
• Insurance
• Vacation time
• scholarships

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Exercise 1

• Rearrange the rows and columns in fig4 so that
  the entities form a block diagonal pattern. What
  conclusion do you reach from analyzing this
  pattern?

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Easier to work with. Easy to see what is used
more often (patient, physician, laboratory).
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Exercise 2

• Redraw Figure 1 to reflect the structure of the
  hospital after its planned future expansion and
  growth. What else would need to change?

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Exercise 2
May need to add a few functions business
function-to-data entity business
function-to-CSF matrices
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Exercise 3

• Which Data entities are essential for operating
  cost control?
• What implications does this result have for
  information systems development?
• Answer
• Data Entities Nursing, Patient Accounting,
  Cost Accounting, Risk Management, Purchasing,
  Inventory Control, Volunteering
• Most of these would need to be used or
  maintained. Therefore allot the data is
  important in information systems development.

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Exercise 4
Modified figure 3
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Brians Question

• Why is information systems so important to
  Mountain View Community Hospital?