Information System for Healthcare: Goals, Stakeholders, Acquisition, Functions, and Security Risks

This presentation discusses the goals, stakeholders, acquisition, functions, and security risks of an information system for healthcare. It also covers data flow, mobility, and references.

A Presentation on
Information System for
Healthcare

System Goals
 To assist clients and consumers with prescribing the correct medicines
for the diagnosis conducted on the patient
 To help develop effective fitness programmes and provide guidance
towards appropriate health standards
 To avoid inconveniences in emergencies by maintaining digital and
mobile records of all patients
 To manage medicines by mapping the products with the diseases and
ailments they are meant to cure.
 To help clients with effective patient care
 To help in efficient utilization of resources resulting to cost reductions

Stakeholders
The four different stakeholders the information system aims to serve are:
 Decision Makers
The system presents a separate interface for business goals and how much business is meeting them
The productivity and progress reports of various departments are also summarized and presented through tables and metrics
 Marketing Department
Presents a dedicated interface for providing information regarding consumer interest and performance of marketing strategies
Enables the staff in creating appropriate content for a given product (Gomber, Koch and Siering 2017)
 R&D Department
Provides dedicated interface on effectiveness of product offerings against the ailments they are meant to serve
Provides custom tools for identifying the essential elements behind the strong performing health systems and medical products
 Consumer
Provides the web portal through which consumers can seamlessly interact with the company thus making the data they desire
more transparent
Provides custom app to be used in mobile devices like laptops, tables and phones for quick access of patient data during
emergencies

System Acquisition
 First the business is to provide model of existing business processes,
products served and define their role in the industry (Wang et al. 2016)
 Then the business is to acquire the blueprint of the information system
 Then live conferences should be arranged for walkthroughs on
implementation of the system
 Lastly the implemented system should be validated

System Functions
User Type Business Reason Advantages over
existing system
Board Members To better ascertain
business performance
and productivity
More concise and
organized information is
presented
Marketing and Sales
Team
To understand
performance of applied
marketing strategies
The analytical data
presented to team far
outweigh the metrics
available previously
R&D To assist in innovation
and help improve
products
More detailed
information on
competing products is
being offered
IT To perform maintenance
of the digital assets of
the company
Combined
summarization of all
bugs are reported in a
unified interface

Data Flow

Security Risks
 The most serious security risks are intrusion by hackers
 The hackers can steal sensitive information and sell them to rivals
 Other threats can come from malwares as they can damage systems
(Mayer et al. 2019)
 Among them are ransomware attacks and DDoS attacks
 DDoS attacks can freeze the network leading to total downtime of digital
activities
 Ransomewares can lock down essential files and charge huge ransoms
 Firewalls and antimalware applications can keep these threats in check

Mobility
 The information systems works by means of a platform
 This platform can be accessed through the company website
 The platform can also be made accessible through applications and
mobile apps
 This makes it possible to quickly retrieve patient data from laptops and
tablets (Catarinucci et al. 2015)

References
 Catarinucci, L., De Donno, D., Mainetti, L., Palano, L., Patrono, L., Stefanizzi, M.L.
and Tarricone, L., 2015. An IoT-aware architecture for smart healthcare systems.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2(6), pp.515-526.
 Mayer, N., Aubert, J., Grandry, E., Feltus, C., Goettelmann, E. and Wieringa, R.,
2019. An integrated conceptual model for information system security risk
management supported by enterprise architecture management. Software &
Systems Modeling, 18(3), pp.2285-2312.
 Wang, J.W., Wang, H.F., Ding, J.L., Furuta, K., Kanno, T., Ip, W.H. and Zhang, W.J.,
2016. On domain modelling of the service system with its application to
enterprise information systems. Enterprise Information Systems, 10(1), pp.1-16.
 Gomber, P., Koch, J.A. and Siering, M., 2017. Digital Finance and FinTech: current
research and future research directions. Journal of Business Economics, 87(5),
pp.537-580.