Can information systems help prevent a public health crisis?

1] Describe And Diagram The Exiting Process For Reporting And Identifying Major Public Health Problems, Such As A Flu Pandemic.

Ans. The existing or traditional approach to reporting potential public health problems is a manual process reliant on individuals within individual hospitals/medical facilities to identify such potential threats or issues. Physicians or laboratories within the hospital identify any potential health risks and then compile a report on the issue. The identification of the issue/risk is reliant on individual hospitals tracking the volume numbers of patients with similar symptoms. This report is than faxed or posted to the local public health authority. The public health authority, on receipt of the report, will phone the hospital in question for any additional information it requires before it is in a position to make any decisions or taken any relevant preventative measures.

Hospitals, Physicians, and laboratories would mail or fax paper reports to public health agencies, who would then call health care providers for more detailed information. This slow chain of person-to-person communication is not well suitable for a major public health emergency.

2] How Does Biosense Improve This Process? Diagram The Process For Reporting And Identifying Public Health Problems Using Biosense.

Ans. BioSense is a management information system (M.I.S.), which gathers the relevant data from individual hospital patient information systems in real time. By analysing this data and also passing it onto the Centre for Disease Control’s (CDC) M.I.S., it removes the potential for the long delays associated with the existing manual reporting process and the reliance on human intervention to identify potential health risks. BioSense allows for an organised coordinated and focused approach to managing health information spanning all geographic areas in the U.S. making it possible to manage information which in turn creates better decision making and execution of remedial actions. It also allows for the sharing of information among registered users, which are geographically relevant to each other, so they may identify potential risks or threats to their.
BioSense sits atop a hospital’s existing information systems, continually gathering and analyzing their data in real time. Custom software developed by CDC monitors the facility’s network traffic and captures relevant patient records, diagnoses, and prescription information.

3] Discuss The Pros And Cons Of Adopting Biosense For Public Health Surveillance. Should All Hospitals And Public Health Agencies Switch To Biosense? Why or Why Not?

Ans. Decreases the time to identify causes, risk factors, and appropriate interventions; and decreases the time needed to implement countermeasures and health guidance.Cons: Many hospitals have not been anxious to jump on the bandwagon because the transition would be burdensome and time-consuming to translate its data codes into the standards used by CDC’s.

4] Put Yourself In The Role Of Hospital Director At A Large Urban Hospital. Would You Support Joining Up With The Biosense System? Why or Why Not? What Factors Would You Want To Take Into Account Before Joining?

Ans. I would support joining up with the BioSense system. First priority of the hospital business is not only to make profits but also to save human’s life. In order to save human’s life, information sharing services and integrated IT are a necessity.

case:vertual management at accenture

SUBJECT:- MANAGERIAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
ASSIGNMENT 1
PREPARED BY:-
SUPRIYA
RNO:-35
CASE STUDY:- Virtual Management at Accenture
Q -1.what are the advantages of working in a virtual environment like the one created by Accenture? What are the disadvantages?
Ans:- Accenture is an global management consulting technology services and outsourcing company. It has been working in 48 countries. It specified in helping business and helps government to improve their performance.
Virtual location means, that there are no physically operational headquarters and no formal branches. It is one kind of corporation we can say that intangible organization. So there are many advantages of virtual location like Accenture.
Advantages:-
Now a day’s growth of information technology is very high. Because almost all the company need to information technology for growing their business reach to top level in the world. In information systems there are many new technologies came in the company.
· No need any operational headquarter
In virtual there are no need of operational headquarters to run business. So company can save lot of money which is invested in infrastructure and no requires any formal branches. Main advantages of this company is that company can save more amount and utilize this amount like customers services, customer satisfaction, put more attention on business efficiency.
· Company can give good and quick services to the customer.
Due to this type of virtual company can provided good services to customer with right time now- a- days time is very important for all the people so customer get his needs about company.
· Employees likes to do work in virtual company
There are no time baundation to do work in his job. Employee can do their work at their comfortable time and place and also do work quickly.
· Other advantage of the virtual company
Ø Time consuming.
Ø Faster work with good quality.
Ø Consumer satisfaction.
Ø Less expenses of advertisement, operational cost, and other expenses.
Ø Company can run their business at global level.
· Disadvantages:-
There are no physical establishments so consumer may not have trust on the company.
Consumer mind may be in doubt of products quality and the information may be not reach in proper manner. There may be too misuse of this information systems by some person.
When employee needs motivation to do hard work so in this situation company can not give proper motivation to its employees. Information may be wrong and misguided.
Q-2 Would you like to work in a company like Accenture? Why or why not? Explain your answer.

ANS. Yes, I would like to work in this type of company like Accenture because,
This is a new type of taking the information system in a modern business World. Thousand of management and technology consultant are constant on the move join the site with client or working temporally in office of the company, lease in more than 100 location around the world. Everyday, Accenture employee log on to the company’s internal website, which they can access from any were in the world. They use this system to record, were they are working and to access e-mail, phone, message, other type of non verbal communication. They are also good in transmition of the information system or technology. That is why I would like to work in this type of company.

Q-3 What kind of companies could benefits from being run virtually like Accenture? Could all companies be run virtually like Accenture?
Ans.
è Organizations are interdependence between organization and information system.
è Most of the dot com companies are use this kind of benefits from being run virtually like Accenture, for e.g. ask.com, sulekha.com, google.com, yahoo.com, rediffmail.com, etc.
è Also all kind of telecommunication and call center are using or taking information about the company are allocating part of the company.
è Governments are also taking part to the information about the system, economically, state wise passing information through his member or employee.
è Not all type of companies is run with this type of Accenture’s companies, but some companies are taking participations in Accenture’s.
So, this type of companies or sector taking part through information systems.

SUBMITTED TO:-
SAMIR ROY