Assignment 1 - Topic: Systems Planning

You have been hired as an Information Systems consultant to examine My Health Centre, a fictitious State Government Hospital, with about 20 specialists. My State Hospital offers diabetic services to general public in the state. The services include initial screening, ongoing diagnosis and periodical treatment. The costs are recovered through the State Government subsidy provided.

The Hospital is modern and comes with the state-of-the-art technology infrastructure, including limited wireless systems. The registrar, who is responsible for all patient safety and service quality affairs wanted to revise the IT infrastructure, especially interested in the access to all hospital services available from their existing HIS through mobile devices and tablets inside and beyond the Hospital.

Your task is to develop a Business Systems Planning document with full justification as to how these are applicable for the organisation. Your planning document must determine how best to accommodate smart handheld devices to access various services provided by the Hospital through its HIS. Your task is to come with a planning document as to how a smart handheld devices system can be implemented as an effective interface to the HIS in order to improve the business processes. You can include any logical assumptions made with critical analysis however these must be clearly stated. You MUST also address the following:

• Any potential customer of My State Hospital can securely access all relevant information pertaining to services offered using a variety of smart handheld devices.

• The planning should involve provision for security, privacy and other end user concerns with using smart handheld devices, along with
appropriate justification.

• Your planning document should discuss various technical options available for the new interface (data, integration, application, security, collaboration, network and systems management), along with appropriate justification.

• The planning document should involve consideration for various interfaces (native or SDK) for mobile applications (e.g. Apple App
Store, Android Google Store or HTML5 web format).

• The planning document should also include a high level business benefits and budget outlining a provisional list of expense items, along with appropriate justification.

• The planning document should enlist a number of key recommendations for the implementation of the mobile interface to the HIS.

• You don't have to provide a costing plan now, as this will be done in the second assignment.

• Include a recommendation on how change will be managed and the adoption of the new capabilities will be promoted and monitored You will prepare a planning document with an executive summary on how the above aspects can be accommodated. The planning document is a simple report but covering all aspects stated above in a succinct manner. You have been a given a word limit of 1200 words (excluding references, tables and diagrams). You can use any style for business report writing as long as the report is professional and presentable.

Assignment 2 - Topic: Systems Implementation

This is a follow up from Assignment 1. My State Hospital has approved your planning document and they have now asked you to  implement your recommendations from the planning document. Initially, you will develop a Systems Implementation document detailing the following:

• ICT infrastructure required to implement your plan, along with appropriate justification.

• An Enterprise Systems that is required to implement your plan, along with appropriate justification.

• Recommend an implementation methodology to ensure the successful implementation of the infrastructure and enterprise system.

• A comprehensive costing analysis, along with appropriate justification.

• A roadmap to highlight the sequence of project/ milestones to support your plans transition from the current state to future state. Include key critical success factors for each step in the plan.

• Include a risk analysis for the plan with mitigating plans for any high risks items

Your documentation should highlight how you plan to assure privacy and security aspects as customer details need to be secured. Otherwise, the Hospital will be subjected to legal prosecution. Therefore, you need to verify your design concept carefully, accommodate appropriate testing protocols, and a comprehensive schedule for quality assurance.

My State Hospital, at this stage, is not interested in actual development. They want only an implementation plan schedule and how this implementation can be accomplished successfully. You have the freedom to use any business report-writing format of your choice, as
long as the report is professional and presentable.

Other related information for Assignment 1 & Assignment 2

• You are encouraged to see other countries' HIS system websites to get an idea as to how the smart handheld devices are being used;

• The word count allows for a variation of 5%. The markers will stop reading beyond this, and any information provided beyond the word limit is ignored.

• You assume the responsibility to assure the report you are producing is of high quality, including plagiarism and collusion checks. You NEED NOT have to produce plagiarism report with the assignment. However, the markers will undertake these checks (using any tools that you have access to), and if any integrity issues are found, you will be awarded a score of zero, and the work will be referred as ‘Academic Misconduct'.

• Please package the report as a PDF version only.

• The assignment submission website will be closed after three working days so that they can be distributed to markers.

• Any queries regarding these assignments will be closed two working days before the submission date.

• Email submission will NOT be accepted in any circumstance.

• The entire report including appendices will be packaged as one single pdf file and then submitted.