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COIT20274: Information Systems for Business Professionals (Term 1, 2018)Annotated BibliographyAssignment 1Name of the StudentStudent IDDue Date:Date Submitted:Tutor:Central Queensland University

1Assignment 1Annotated BibliographyIntroductionThe aim of this particular report is to give relevant solutions to AAHS or AnimalAfter Hour Services. AAHS is a popular veterinary hospital, which is running for last fewyears in Gold Coast and Brisbane Southside. It was started by Dr. Terry King seven years agowith his nephew, for treating injured animals after office hours, when normally veterinarypractices are closed. The most common examples of cases in this hospital include snakebites, consumptions of foreign bodies or toxic substances that are solely harmful for theanimals. Small accidents are also very common here. Slowly, this organization has gainedpopularity and thus expanded to locations such as Carrara and Jindalee. They have employedmore people in the organization and currently 15 doctors, 30 nurses, 10 administrative staffs,one handyman and one book keeper are working there. However, Dr. Terry is concernedabout the cost and complexity of IT setup in his hospital. He is mainly worried about thesafety as well as security of the system, various logistics issues like payroll processing andmany more. Moreover, he wants an interface that would help to access him records of animaltreatment from other doctors. He wishes that the patient owners would be getting regularonline updates of their well being and this would result into reducing the continuous phonecalls about the well being of the patients. He even wants the data of the client should bestored in an extremely secured system so that they can easily access data and take print outsor download the statement or notes for treatment. These are required as these are utilized forinsurance purpose. This report is provided in the form of an annotated bibliography that would beanswering all the seven issues or problems for the information system of AAHS or AnimalAfter Hour Services. This particular annotated bibliography comprises of six peer reviewedarticles for solving all the dilemmas. For each of the six references, a brief explanation isprovided with a specific paragraph that would outline the importance of the case study withthe article. Hirschheim, R., & Klein, H. K. (2012). A glorious and not-so-short history of theinformation systems field.Journal of the Association for Information Systems,13(4), 188.This article clearly depicts the definition and the important details regardinginformation system. The history of information system started around forty years back and tillStudent IDCOIT20274, T1 2018

2Assignment 1Annotated Bibliographytoday, it is providing excellent technology for the benefit of the technological world. Thereare various advantages of information system. This article has helped to understand thecomplete evolution of technology or rather information system in terms of four distinct eras.The difference between the information systems between these four eras are properlyexplained here. The importance of information system is also given here. This article is selected for providing answer to question 1 and question 4 of the casestudy of AAHS or Animal after Hour Services. Information system can be simply defined asthe structured system for the purpose to store, collect, communicate and organize data or anytype of information. The proper collection, processing, filtration and distribution ofinformation are done with the help of information system. It is nothing but a set of variouselements, which interact with each other for producing perfect and accurate information. Themost important advantage of this information system is that it majorly focuses on the internalinformation. It runs a completely computer based database for properly executing aninformation system. There are various types of information systems, such as transactionprocessing system, management information system, decision support system, expert systemsas well as neural network and organizational information system. Since, AAHS is a smallveterinary hospital, they should opt for management information system for their business.MIS is the simplest form of information system that helps to manage and integrate the entiresystem of data processing, collection and retrieval extremely easily and smoothly. AAHSwould be benefitted if they will select MIS for their organization. This information systemwould manage all the business problems and make business decisions that are faced by theorganization (Question 1 and question 4).Bajdor, P., & Grabara, I. (2014). The Role of Information System Flows in FulfillingCustomers’ Individual Orders.Journal of Studies in Social Sciences,7(2). pp. 96-106.This journal article describes about the role of information system for fulfilling thecustomer requirements or customer needs. The customers or the clients are the mostimportant part of an organization. If the organization will not be able to fulfil the demands orwishes of the customers, the organization will face major losses in their business. Theinformation system is utilized in almost every organization to complete or fulfil the demandsof the customers. Customer satisfaction is the core term that is utilized in marketing for theStudent IDCOIT20274, T1 2018

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