The problem of the new ipod nano is that it allows you to take videos and it is illigle to take videos of people in genernal without their permission and espelially when they are chanigng and this will effect business with the policys that they put into effect.
One very simple solution would be to drop of your camera, ipods, and all electronics before entering the changing room, and then have an employee who brings the basket back and forth when its needed. This would work, for example when you enter the gym and swipe you card, you can hand in you new ipod nano, and other video/picture taking devices. Then the user will go to the changing room get ready for the gym and then depending on the logistics of the gym, the person at the desk can bring the electronics to the gym aera, or the user can go back to the front desk to get the needed items. and this works in the reverse when the user is done at the gym also.
This solution will be effective if people go along with it and drop of their picture taking devices but if people do not take it seriously the the fitness club will havt to facilitate some more drastic
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Case study #2
The government of the Western Province wants to purchase a pre-existing or custom-built EMR management system from a local or multinational company that would lead to improvements in the:
-healthcare of patients
-accuracy of record keeping
-efficiency of the hospital and clinics.
1. What is an EMR management system? What do they typically include? How would they help improve each of the points above? Would they be available in East African countries? Provide evidence for your answer!
An EMR management system is a system is an electronic medical record management system. this means that a hospital can have one management system throughout the hospital and also all of the medical records would be synchronized though out the hospital. this is a good thing because if a patient first goes to the hospital through the ER, the ER will collect some information. then if the patient is having a child they will go up to the maternity ward, and with the information collected in the ER it means that they won't have to collect the information again. Then if something was to go wrong and they ended up needing more testing or an IV the nurse would be able to add to the EMR so that the next time that the patient goes to the hospital there would already be some record on that patient. ie. personal info, allergies, genetic disorders...
An example of an EMR is Advanced MD and it includes -medical billing, no IT stress, back up the database, preform upgrades, allow the user to access the database anywhere anytime, via the web. almost completely eliminates lost medical record, IT help when needed for free. Advanced EMR which is by the same company just more advanced also features, same thing except Advanced EMR allows the doctor to dictate the organization of software, so it doesn't hinder the style of the doctor, and also its very easy to use.
Advanced EMR would help the patients because its synced to the web, so if they are transfer to another wing of the hostipal their information would get to that wing almost instantly. It would help the accuracy of record keeping because, if there is not a field that is acceptable for whats needed then they can create another one, which allows the records to be very accurate. and lastly this is very efficient.
2. What options are available for pre-exisiting systems? What are the price points for those systems? What are the advantages and disadvantages to buying a pre-built system?
One system which i talked about earlier is Advanced MD. The Price of this system is $300/number of doctors/ month. This seems expensive, but from their website. everything looks really good, so that the benefits will out way the drawbacks. The price point is 3,600 per year if there is only one doctor. advantages for this program is that within the company, there are options for practices and also options for enterprises so they can talk to each other to create a more comprehensive database. A drawback is the price. If it costs $300 per month per doctor, the price will very quickly grow to be a lot especially within a larger practice.
3. What options are available for custom systems? What are the price ranges for those systems? What are the advantages and disadvantages to buying a custom system?
one very easy and quick custom system would be to just use a spread sheet, and set up a password for it. this would be easy but a major drawback would be that its not as easily integrated with hospitals or more major practices. the idea of just using excel would be an easy fix but not necessarily be a good option but it would get the job done. The price for this system would be to buy the Microsoft office package for the small business, the starting price for this is 449.95. another feature of this package is Microsoft access which could also do the same thing and most likely a better job.
An advantage for a custom system is that it can be the way that you want and that you will not have any questions about the way that they work, or store information, or the security, or how to back up. This is a benefit because the owner will know that they are getting full use of the system. A drawback though, is that they do not have the normal system. this is a drawback because there is a good change that the data will not be able to be transfered from database to database as easily as the Advanced MD program does. another drawback to the custom system is that in the Advanced MD system, it takes care of just about everything, backing it up, sending out bills and everything. So with the custom system the owner of the system has more responsibilities.
4. Make a recommendation to the government of the Western Province; which type of system should they buy? Which options should it include? What compromises will they have to make?
I think that the Government of the Western Province should by the Advanced MD system I think like that because this system is expensive it seems to take a way a lot of the other responsibilities that would be necessary otherwise. One reason that I don't think that they should make their own is that, even thought there are not many hospitals and medical facilities, in africa but between all of the difficult conditions that are going on. it seems like the best thing to do to have one type of EMR, so that while there will be differences with languages, and beliefs, and whatnot but the one thing that the doctors do not have to worry about is that the records will be transfered from one place to another. Thats why the Advanced MD system is the best.
-healthcare of patients
-accuracy of record keeping
-efficiency of the hospital and clinics.
1. What is an EMR management system? What do they typically include? How would they help improve each of the points above? Would they be available in East African countries? Provide evidence for your answer!
An EMR management system is a system is an electronic medical record management system. this means that a hospital can have one management system throughout the hospital and also all of the medical records would be synchronized though out the hospital. this is a good thing because if a patient first goes to the hospital through the ER, the ER will collect some information. then if the patient is having a child they will go up to the maternity ward, and with the information collected in the ER it means that they won't have to collect the information again. Then if something was to go wrong and they ended up needing more testing or an IV the nurse would be able to add to the EMR so that the next time that the patient goes to the hospital there would already be some record on that patient. ie. personal info, allergies, genetic disorders...
An example of an EMR is Advanced MD and it includes -medical billing, no IT stress, back up the database, preform upgrades, allow the user to access the database anywhere anytime, via the web. almost completely eliminates lost medical record, IT help when needed for free. Advanced EMR which is by the same company just more advanced also features, same thing except Advanced EMR allows the doctor to dictate the organization of software, so it doesn't hinder the style of the doctor, and also its very easy to use.
Advanced EMR would help the patients because its synced to the web, so if they are transfer to another wing of the hostipal their information would get to that wing almost instantly. It would help the accuracy of record keeping because, if there is not a field that is acceptable for whats needed then they can create another one, which allows the records to be very accurate. and lastly this is very efficient.
2. What options are available for pre-exisiting systems? What are the price points for those systems? What are the advantages and disadvantages to buying a pre-built system?
One system which i talked about earlier is Advanced MD. The Price of this system is $300/number of doctors/ month. This seems expensive, but from their website. everything looks really good, so that the benefits will out way the drawbacks. The price point is 3,600 per year if there is only one doctor. advantages for this program is that within the company, there are options for practices and also options for enterprises so they can talk to each other to create a more comprehensive database. A drawback is the price. If it costs $300 per month per doctor, the price will very quickly grow to be a lot especially within a larger practice.
3. What options are available for custom systems? What are the price ranges for those systems? What are the advantages and disadvantages to buying a custom system?
one very easy and quick custom system would be to just use a spread sheet, and set up a password for it. this would be easy but a major drawback would be that its not as easily integrated with hospitals or more major practices. the idea of just using excel would be an easy fix but not necessarily be a good option but it would get the job done. The price for this system would be to buy the Microsoft office package for the small business, the starting price for this is 449.95. another feature of this package is Microsoft access which could also do the same thing and most likely a better job.
An advantage for a custom system is that it can be the way that you want and that you will not have any questions about the way that they work, or store information, or the security, or how to back up. This is a benefit because the owner will know that they are getting full use of the system. A drawback though, is that they do not have the normal system. this is a drawback because there is a good change that the data will not be able to be transfered from database to database as easily as the Advanced MD program does. another drawback to the custom system is that in the Advanced MD system, it takes care of just about everything, backing it up, sending out bills and everything. So with the custom system the owner of the system has more responsibilities.
4. Make a recommendation to the government of the Western Province; which type of system should they buy? Which options should it include? What compromises will they have to make?
I think that the Government of the Western Province should by the Advanced MD system I think like that because this system is expensive it seems to take a way a lot of the other responsibilities that would be necessary otherwise. One reason that I don't think that they should make their own is that, even thought there are not many hospitals and medical facilities, in africa but between all of the difficult conditions that are going on. it seems like the best thing to do to have one type of EMR, so that while there will be differences with languages, and beliefs, and whatnot but the one thing that the doctors do not have to worry about is that the records will be transfered from one place to another. Thats why the Advanced MD system is the best.
Friday, October 23, 2009
FBI Prepares Vast Database
Discuss three advantages the biometrics database provides the FBI. Evaluate three advantages.
three advantage to the FBI with the new database would be it allow the to finish off a case a lot quicker. Another advantage is that the database of biometrics could the accuracy which could help to eliminate otehr suspects. One last advantage would be the capacity of the computers.
The speed of solving the case would be a major advantage because a computer can process the data much faster than a human, so the sooner that the find a match the sooner that they can catch the criminal. Another benfit is that with the millions of pieces of data in the database that are accurate and that will help to eliminate other suspecsts for the case very easily, So that the people who weren't involved in the case do not have to wait around and be worried that they are conviceted of something that they didn't do. And the database would have a bigger capacity of the pervious method. The pervious method was books of pictures and what not but now there are huge networks carrying this information so that it will be easier to catch a suspect becaue people do not have to flip through the books.
This new major Database for the FBI is a good thing because with the use of databases it will only benfit people. the only harm would be that the person does not want the goverment to have their biometric data without their premission. But overwellming the postive benfits out way the drawbacks. But the people who run the database have to worry about sucricty becuae if the data base got hacked into bad things could happen, they could switch around a lot of the data so people would be accused of crimse that htey did not commit.
three advantage to the FBI with the new database would be it allow the to finish off a case a lot quicker. Another advantage is that the database of biometrics could the accuracy which could help to eliminate otehr suspects. One last advantage would be the capacity of the computers.
The speed of solving the case would be a major advantage because a computer can process the data much faster than a human, so the sooner that the find a match the sooner that they can catch the criminal. Another benfit is that with the millions of pieces of data in the database that are accurate and that will help to eliminate other suspecsts for the case very easily, So that the people who weren't involved in the case do not have to wait around and be worried that they are conviceted of something that they didn't do. And the database would have a bigger capacity of the pervious method. The pervious method was books of pictures and what not but now there are huge networks carrying this information so that it will be easier to catch a suspect becaue people do not have to flip through the books.
This new major Database for the FBI is a good thing because with the use of databases it will only benfit people. the only harm would be that the person does not want the goverment to have their biometric data without their premission. But overwellming the postive benfits out way the drawbacks. But the people who run the database have to worry about sucricty becuae if the data base got hacked into bad things could happen, they could switch around a lot of the data so people would be accused of crimse that htey did not commit.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Part C
The Issue for the New Ipod Nano is Business and employment. Within the greater issue, questions related to economics qustions are raised.
Economic questions are raised because if a costumer of a health club is not satisfied with the policy surrounding ipods, and recording devices in the locker rooms, they could potentially change health clubs. already "Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, says the new iPod Nano will be included on the list of recording devices banned in the locker rooms of its 84 fitness facilities across 19 states." this artical came out right when the ipod came out so once more gyms find out about it and become more aware of this issue, it would be assumed that the 84 fitness areas and 9 states will jump up in number to include more gyms and more states. with gyms banning the ipod nano it creates customers who are upset, and who could find a new gym that still has polices that they agree with or has polices but do not inform them to the level that they should be.
The stake holders involved in business and employment are the health club owners, and the costumers. the benefits for the health club owners are that they can decided if they want to potentially be liable in a law suite if there is a issue of illegal recording of someone in the changing room, but a draw back is also if the do ban the new ipod nano is that people would be angry with them.
A benefit to the costumers who have the new ipod is the other software that the ipod has like the software that can track how far you have ran and how many calories you have burned. a draw back is that they might not be able to use the new ipod at the gym because the health club has banned it.
A benefit to the coustumers who don't have the ipod in question is that if the ban is in place they can feel safe to change in the locker room with out being video taped. and a drawback would be that they wish that they had the ipod but other than that there is not real drawback
Economic questions are raised because if a costumer of a health club is not satisfied with the policy surrounding ipods, and recording devices in the locker rooms, they could potentially change health clubs. already "Life Time Fitness, Chanhassen, MN, says the new iPod Nano will be included on the list of recording devices banned in the locker rooms of its 84 fitness facilities across 19 states." this artical came out right when the ipod came out so once more gyms find out about it and become more aware of this issue, it would be assumed that the 84 fitness areas and 9 states will jump up in number to include more gyms and more states. with gyms banning the ipod nano it creates customers who are upset, and who could find a new gym that still has polices that they agree with or has polices but do not inform them to the level that they should be.
The stake holders involved in business and employment are the health club owners, and the costumers. the benefits for the health club owners are that they can decided if they want to potentially be liable in a law suite if there is a issue of illegal recording of someone in the changing room, but a draw back is also if the do ban the new ipod nano is that people would be angry with them.
A benefit to the costumers who have the new ipod is the other software that the ipod has like the software that can track how far you have ran and how many calories you have burned. a draw back is that they might not be able to use the new ipod at the gym because the health club has banned it.
A benefit to the coustumers who don't have the ipod in question is that if the ban is in place they can feel safe to change in the locker room with out being video taped. and a drawback would be that they wish that they had the ipod but other than that there is not real drawback
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Case Study Question 1
What is the most appropriate IT system that would allow data to be accessed and transferred between the hospital and the village clinics?
Tasks to understand the context of health care and IT:
1. Search through sites such as the BBC News website, The Economist, and the Financial Times for "health care" and "Africa" and other related terms to get a sense of the state of health care and health care technology in Africa.
From reading articles online I am getting the sense that health care in Africa is really sporadic and there are really no generalizations that one can make because they are all so different. But one thing is for sure and that is that the health care can be improved, with the help of technology, and also with the help of better doctors and nurses in the remote areas of Africa.
2. Search through the websites of local hospitals such as Cape Cod Hospital, Falmouth Hospital, and Jordan hospital to find out about their use of technology.
One form of hospital IT is Amalga 2008 which is Microsoft's version of software for hospitals. This program can "capturing, storing, and quickly presenting data from disparate systems." this system has 2 previous systems into one, hospital 2000 and Azyxxi.
The Stake holders for this piece of IT are, Microsoft because they are reliable if anything bad happens because they are the ones that are created, Patients because they are the ones that could potently be hurt emotional or physically- emotionally if a lot of people know about their personal health records and physically if the system fails and the doctors give them medicine that they are allergic to. also the doctors, nurses and hostile staff are stake holders because they are the ones that are running the system.
The advantages for Microsoft is that they are making more money and they have more customers, a disadvantage is that if they fail they will get a bad name and they are a very big company so they would lose a lot of respect as a company. an advantage of the patients is that their health records could be better organized now so there will be less mistakes, but a disadvantage is if the system fails they could be in great danger because the doctors could mess up. and an advantage for the people working at the hospital is that with the new IT it will make their ob easier of keeping everything straight, but if something goes wrong with the IT then they could potentially really hurt one of their patients.
Microsoft and the doctors, nurses and hospital workers are the responsible ones, they are the ones that are making/running the system. Microsoft needs to make sure that the system is working, and the hospital workers are responsible for making sure that the information is correct.
Doctors and hospital workers are the accountable ones because if the system gets messed up and they end up killing someone because of an allergy, the doctors are the one who are blamed.
The laws that apply to this situation is that medical records should be private, and with a IT system records could be viewed by more people. anyone who has access to the system.
Tasks to understand the context of health care and IT:
1. Search through sites such as the BBC News website, The Economist, and the Financial Times for "health care" and "Africa" and other related terms to get a sense of the state of health care and health care technology in Africa.
From reading articles online I am getting the sense that health care in Africa is really sporadic and there are really no generalizations that one can make because they are all so different. But one thing is for sure and that is that the health care can be improved, with the help of technology, and also with the help of better doctors and nurses in the remote areas of Africa.
2. Search through the websites of local hospitals such as Cape Cod Hospital, Falmouth Hospital, and Jordan hospital to find out about their use of technology.
One form of hospital IT is Amalga 2008 which is Microsoft's version of software for hospitals. This program can "capturing, storing, and quickly presenting data from disparate systems." this system has 2 previous systems into one, hospital 2000 and Azyxxi.
The Stake holders for this piece of IT are, Microsoft because they are reliable if anything bad happens because they are the ones that are created, Patients because they are the ones that could potently be hurt emotional or physically- emotionally if a lot of people know about their personal health records and physically if the system fails and the doctors give them medicine that they are allergic to. also the doctors, nurses and hostile staff are stake holders because they are the ones that are running the system.
The advantages for Microsoft is that they are making more money and they have more customers, a disadvantage is that if they fail they will get a bad name and they are a very big company so they would lose a lot of respect as a company. an advantage of the patients is that their health records could be better organized now so there will be less mistakes, but a disadvantage is if the system fails they could be in great danger because the doctors could mess up. and an advantage for the people working at the hospital is that with the new IT it will make their ob easier of keeping everything straight, but if something goes wrong with the IT then they could potentially really hurt one of their patients.
Microsoft and the doctors, nurses and hospital workers are the responsible ones, they are the ones that are making/running the system. Microsoft needs to make sure that the system is working, and the hospital workers are responsible for making sure that the information is correct.
Doctors and hospital workers are the accountable ones because if the system gets messed up and they end up killing someone because of an allergy, the doctors are the one who are blamed.
The laws that apply to this situation is that medical records should be private, and with a IT system records could be viewed by more people. anyone who has access to the system.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Part B
For the new Ipod Nano there is a lot of factors to take into consideration, like the hardware, how the iPod works and lastly who the stakeholders are.
The hardware that is related to the video part of the Ipod is the camera, and it allows the quality of the video to be 640 by 480 megapixels, and will take 30 frames per second. The length of video that the ipod can hold is very dependent on the size of Ipod, if there is only videos on the ipod then you could hold either 8 or 16 hours of video. but the amount of video goes down from there because once you put music onto your ipod the memory will go down.
The ipod has the click wheel that you can scroll with, four different buttons, menu, next, back, and play, and one in the middle. For recording you will use those four buttons. It functions as all video cameras do, except the buttons are a little different.
The immediate stakeholders of the new iPod Nano are the people who own the ipod, because its their responsibility to not take videos of people in the health club. Another stakeholder are the health club owners because they are also responsible if inappropriate videos are taken. Lastly the other people involved are the other members of the health club, they are a stakeholder because they are the potential victims.
The hardware that is related to the video part of the Ipod is the camera, and it allows the quality of the video to be 640 by 480 megapixels, and will take 30 frames per second. The length of video that the ipod can hold is very dependent on the size of Ipod, if there is only videos on the ipod then you could hold either 8 or 16 hours of video. but the amount of video goes down from there because once you put music onto your ipod the memory will go down.
The ipod has the click wheel that you can scroll with, four different buttons, menu, next, back, and play, and one in the middle. For recording you will use those four buttons. It functions as all video cameras do, except the buttons are a little different.
The immediate stakeholders of the new iPod Nano are the people who own the ipod, because its their responsibility to not take videos of people in the health club. Another stakeholder are the health club owners because they are also responsible if inappropriate videos are taken. Lastly the other people involved are the other members of the health club, they are a stakeholder because they are the potential victims.