Essays on Decision Support Systems

HITECH legislation and its primary goals

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 forms part of a stimulus package that was approved as law in order to champion the use of EHR (electronic health records). Electronic health records possess the capacity to transform the health care sector from a largely paper based sector to reliance on clinical information and other sources of information in assisting the providers to deliver higher levels of quality care to patients (Beasley and Sinsky, 2014). At its core, HITECH has five primary objectives. First, HITECH seeks to augment quality, the safety, efficacy of health care ...

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Introduction

Technology advancement is a requirement for all public systems where users come in large numbers. One such critical functioning system is the Air Traffic Control system of the America. America’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) system had been running for the past 40 years and catering to the burgeoning traffic at the airports. At any given time in the United States, approximately 7000 aircraft are flying in the country’s airspace. The country’s air traffic system had been catering to the ever increasing demand. However, it ...

Approaches in configuring Clinical Decision Support (CDS) System

The development of an effective CDS system to facilitate the healthcare delivery of a chain of hospitals and outpatient clinics warrants the systematic incorporation of clinical guidelines, documentation templates, patient summaries, HPI and medication history recording tools, condition-specific orders and diagnostic support system across the electronic health record (EHR) (CMS, CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT:More Than Just ‘Alerts’ Tipsheet, 2014). The association of these approaches in EHR is warranted in the context of incorporating the entire aspects of patient care to facilitate the patient outcomes across the clinical settings. The EHR across clinical settings requires the effective incorporation of the research ...

Inter-organizational Innovation Networks (IT): Role of cloud computing and big data on Business Model Innovation

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This report looks at how cloud computing and big data impact business model innovation and if these technologies enable companies to implement quicker and more efficient means to interact with customers and enhance their profitability and growth potential. Meta-analysis was conducted by accessing peer-reviewed literature which targets issues surrounding the research problem and research questions. Despite the uncertainty in terms of knowledge and expertise in the IT industry due to rapid technological developments there are still opportunities to be leveraged by businesses. However, in answer to the research questions it is found that cloud computing and big ...

Most businesses should engage in e-commerce on the internet. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain your position. I concur with the idea that contemporary corporations should embrace e-commerce. Indeed, the emergence of portable electronic devices that use the internet has created many opportunities for online business. Therefore, the internet is a vital tool in making businesses more profitable and productive. Research indicates that e-commerce on the Internet helps in cutting down business expenses as it eases communication and marketing while streamlining business activities (Albright 34). Moreover, the internet allows businesses to communicate more efficiently with clients, ...

Healthcare Decision Support System (HDSS) is known to be an interactive DSS application/software that assists healthcare providers and professionals during their decision making to establish the diagnosis based on the data of the heath-seeker (In Moon & In Galea, 2016). HDSS products relate known information network with health observations for controlling alternative causes of actions by health providers such as Clinicians and Doctors so as to enhance the management of medical practices. Healthcare Decision Support is critical in making judgments based on the patient database for generating out an effective consultation/therapy on case specifics. A functional knowledge HDSS application helps ...

Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses

Business Intelligence and Data Warehouses The term “business intelligence” have come to define the efficiency with which an organization can improve over itself without the usual uncertainty that comes with such decisions. With the rapid expansions of many global corporations, understanding and analyzing huge amounts of transactional data (of all their activities), have become the only solution to manage their future as well as current actions. Most often multinational corporations find themselves at loss whenever rapid business decisions need to be taken which, to the desperation of many corporates, will go on to define the future of their company. ...

The Decision Support Systems (DSS) are very fundamental for supporting Quality Management Systems (QMS) in Higher Educations Institutions (HEIs). DSS are effective in various fields like automotive, finance, business, military, etc. and are being applied in the education sector for improvement of the quality of services. For DSS to support Quality Management Systems, there is the need to formulate a classic Decision Support Systems that entails organised leadership for better results. Any systems developed to measure and evaluate the success in HIEs is expected to put into consideration various factors. These include success rate, quality of produced papers, the ...

1. Introduction 1.1 Background Information The exponential growth of data sources, as well as the need to obtain valuable information from huge volumes, paved the advent of the business analytics. Keim et al. (2008) defined business analytics (BA) as an application of multiple analytic methods that address the big data diversity (structured and unstructured) to generate estimative results and to yield actionable descriptive and predictive results. It uses the technique of data visualization as well as predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enable businesses to make an informed decision (Van, Arnold and Campbell, 2012). In general, ...

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a) Information Systems for an Airline: Airline industry has been utilizing the merits of computer based information systems to provide a better class of service for its customers, since the 1970s. These industries had invested a lot in transaction processing systems and management information systems since then. Even though decision support information systems is still at its infancy in Airline industry, latest studies have revealed their importance in fixing business related parameters of Airlines (such as Airfares) in improving their business value without making unnecessary compromises in profits . Integration of decision support systems with either of the aforementioned information ...

Information Systems Model for Gustavus’s VASA case Study

Executive Summary Management information systems are tools that focus on the organization, the people, and the technology in the management. They help the managers in making critical decisions in the aspects of management by offering valuable data that can increase the relevance and the accuracy of the business decisions and the actions taken in an organization. The report will cover the critical management information tools that could have been employed in the Gustavu`s VASA case study. The case study entails the building of a Swedish ship that sank after covering 1400 yards on its maiden voyage 300 years ...

MANAGEMENT OF E-COMMERCE

Management of E-Commerce Introduction The improvement in technology all over the world has led to the adoption of E-Commerce in the businesses. According to Andam (2014), E-Commerce is the use of electronic systems and the internet to facilitate selling and buying of goods and services. Grandon (2004) is of the opinion that the Electronic Commerce started forty years ago but currently through the day to day innovations, many firms and individuals are entering the market through the internet. In the work of Demirel (2011) businesses incorporate the use of Electronic Commerce to offer its goods and services in a ...

Introduction

Efficient manipulation of information is the key concept towards ensuring effectiveness in the organization operations and facilitating the organization to match up the present competitive nature of both local and global market. This therefore implies that the paradigm of strategic planning needs to change frequently in order support the new and emerging technologies in information technology and information systems. Strategic Information System planning (SISP) is always directed towards assisting the business enterprise or organization in the realization of its business goals and objectives through the identification of necessary portfolio and implementation of computer based application that will aid the ...