You are the health informatician of PGH Badulla. There are no ICT officers in the hospital. On your 1st month in the hospital you realized that all the computers in the hospital are installed with pirated copies of Microsoft Office ®.
Draft a strategic plan to address the above situation that you can forward to the hospital director for his perusal and approval.
As the health Informatician of PGH Badulla, my first task after realizing that all the computers in the hospital are installed with pirated copies of Microsoft office is to identify what are the ramifications of continuing to use these pirated copies in the hospital system.
First of all I would like to pay attention to the harmful effects it would have to the computers and the data itself.
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The other option and more preferred one is to go for free and open source software.
In order to make an informed decision I would like to elaborate on the pros and cons of using either original Microsoft office package or free and open source software.
Free and open source software as the name suggests is often free or at least much more cost effective, whereas original Microsoft software is highly costly. Therefore using OSS as Libre office or Apache Open Office will save a huge amount of money rather than going for original Microsoft office. And we can install OSS in all the computers of the hospital without having to worry about licenses.
OSS is often evolving to the betterment as a large membership is involved in developing it and fixing bugs. And since it’s legal upgrading the software should not be a problem for us.
Since OSS are more flexible we can modify the software as we wish to suit our requirements.
Another benefit is that we are not restricted to a propriety system with vendor designed products which are compatible only with each other when using an
Customized function and feature application software package would possibly at risk of malware and bug.
One of the good thing about it is that it is free to use and distribute to your other computers. Linux is not a fully operation system, and it needs additional software in order for it to work to its full potential. There are so many different packages, that there will be one that will fit you needs. Even though it is not a fully operation system, and can be loaded on most computer except Mac, is still only have just a few virus problems, good graphic interface and still good for use, but not much
Linux needs to rewrite codes to customise which at first sound more difficult however you
Cost efficient. For using Linux Boeing can save cost that would increase its net income.
Save time and money and increase pricing competitiveness and productivity by utilizing automated features such as electronic forms.
Free software is free, users can change code, and source code is available to anyone.
With an open source program, anybody can create for the program, giving it a much bigger foundation for designers and gives them a greater sense of proprietorship as they can change whatever they like (Sacks, 2015).
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6c. Should the POS applications software be re-written to include any additional functionality? If yes, what specific functionality? If no why?
The healthcare industry consists of many strengths and weaknesses during the improvement of patient safety, efficient operations, reduction of medical errors, and ensuring that they provide timely access to all patient information. This will have to still comply with all legal guidelines as they control costs and protect patient privacy. The adoption of advanced information technology is a popular strategy being used in the healthcare industry because it allows their weaknesses to be progressively diminished as they gain and use the opportunities necessary as an analytical tool. This would allow their capabilities to be further developed with the new technologies and processes used as they unify the adoption of IT standards. In order to stay competitive within the healthcare industry, then there must be specific actions and measures that must be taken to ensure a positive outcome. This includes external opportunities to increase the capability of the IT infrastructure in a national environment as the growth of industry standards are met in order to decrease the pressured threats of legal compliance through patient trust and the high cost of IT. The growing recognition of strategic leadership often leads to both improved financial stability and contact accessibility of the system. Some challenges that may occur within the healthcare system may cause issues in a hospital setting because of the centralized society of an organization. This is because of the different visions and
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