System Analysis of T-SYSTEM
Because of its ability to improve the quality and delivery of health care services, the Electronic Health ecord is becoming a necessity in almost every healthcare organization. The purpose of this paper is to explain the impact of having an electronic health record system in an emergency department. The current computerized system used at Suny Downstate Hospital in Brooklyn is called T-SYSTEM, and has been in operation since 2007. Documentation prior to its implementation was achieved through handwritten notes on various forms as well as through dictation by doctors. Suny Downstate Hospital had to update its system in order to meet state standards and quality core measures. The transition from paper to electronic documentation is major; while it assures many advantages, it also faces many challenges. As the author of this paper, I will be using my workplace as the unit (ED) project observed. I will also…...

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System analysis and design is the process of planning, analyze, design and implement the information systems for the business needs. "Systems analysis is a process of collecting factual data, understand the processes involved, identifying problems and recommending feasible suggestions for improving the system functioning." (Open Schooling (2010.P 5). On the other hand, system design is the process of converting the business requirements into physical system design. To design a system designer makes use of the designing tools such as the flow chart, Data flow diagram (DFD), data dictionary and structured English to build the functional information systems. The Broadway Entertainment Company (BEC) case study is a prototype of the system development life cycle where the group gathers relevant data to analyze and design the information systems. Although, the BEC case does not reflect the overall system development life cycle, nevertheless, the case study provides learning experience for the development of…...

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Broadway Entertainment Company Inc. (nd), Retrieved 30 July 2011, from the attached file of the BEC Case study.

Dennis, A. Wixom, B. H & Roth, R.M. (2008). System analysis and design. John Wiley and Sons. USA.

Espindola, D. (2009). The 7 Traits of Highly Effective Teams. Self-Improvement Magazine.

Open Schooling (2010).Introduction to System Analysis and Design. National Institute of Open Schooling

Network System Analysis
Natividad Medical Center was established in 1844 (NMC Profile). It is a licensed hospital for 172 beds and employs approximately 800 employees. Natividad Medical Center serves more than 135,000 patients with a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, including Doctor Clinics, surgery, lab, as well as emergency services, and handles more than 42,000 emergency visits annually. The hospital industry is governed by laws and regulations that require a high amount of security by the facility, employees, and the information system, such as Health Insurance and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (Dennis, 2005). HIPAA requires individual user authentication, access controls, audit trails, physical security and disaster recovery, protection of remote access points, such as individual computers in the hospital, secure external electronic communications, software discipline, and system assessments. The medical record storage and input interfaces are required to maintain high levels of security.

The Hospital Information System supports clinical and medical…...

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Security System Analysis
Paypal

The information era has totally revolutionized our society with its sphere of influence touching every facet of our lives. There is a paradigm shift in our business methodology and ecommerce has evolved as an integral and indispensable aspect of any business venture that wishes to capitalize on the global market that technology promises. Today more and more companies are recognizing the vast potential and the unprecedented customer base of ecommerce which is definitely poised to become the mainstay business medium of the future. With ecommerce exploding like anything there will be more and more transfer of funds online. It stands out clearly that the anonymous nature of the web medium poses issues pertaining to the credibility and authenticity and thus compromises on the flexibility and the comfort of the web. The success of fast online fund transfer very much hinges on implementing effective security measures to thwart the…...

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Bplnet.com, "Internet Technology Primer: Secure With SSL ' Chip Magazine, November 2000

Paypal Inc., "FDIC pass Through Insurance," Accessed on July 26th, 2003,  http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fdic-outside 

Designed by Faqs.org, "Advantages and Disadvantages of Kerberos Vs SSL," Accessed on July 26th, 2003, http://www.faqs.org/faqs/kerberos-faq/general/section-31.html

Paypal Inc., "Privacy Policy," Accessed on July 26th, 2003,  http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy-outside

Airborne Collision System/TCAS Analysis
The TCAS (traffic collision avoidance system) was introduced to reduce the risks associated to the mid-air collision between aircraft. The TCAS serves as a last resort safety system no matter the separation standard, and the TCAS is "an aircraft collision avoidance system" (Damidau, Save, Sellier, 2010 p 2). that has been designed to reduce the mid-air collision incidence. The TCAS is also used to monitor the airspace as well as other aircraft, which has been equipped with the corresponding active transponder. The TCAS is used to warn pilot, and other transponder equipped aircraft that may pose a threat to the MAC (mid-air-collision). In essence, the TACS is an airborne collision avoidance system that has been mandated by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), which needs to be fitted into all aircraft with a load of over 5,700 kg before a take off or the aircraft that has…...

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Damidau, A. Save, L. Sellier, M. et al. (2010).Work Area 4 / Work Package 5: Operational Safety Assessment Final Report. Operational Safety Assessment Final Report.

HIS, Tech and Law
Assess the types of changes and new developments in technology and government regulations that should be considered in long-range planning requirements for updating or replacing a HIS

Human esource Information System (HIS) is an incorporated system that consists of hardware, software and a database to make available information for H decision making. It also encompasses personnel, policies, procedures, forms as well as data collected. Owing to the advancement in technology, managers are obliged to be up to par or think ahead so that they are considered obsolete because of the changes in the business world. With regard to updating or replacing Human esource Information System (HIS), it is imperative for the organization to gather pertinent information regarding new technology. The organization has to gradually screen the incessantly changing environment and come up with ways of coping with them. The long-standing preparation of HIS needs work in tandem with…...

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Chakraborty, A. R., & Mansor, N. N. A. (2013). Adoption of human resource information system: A theoretical analysis. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 75, 473-478.

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Kavanagh, M.J., Thite, M., & Johnson, R.D. (2012). Human resource information systems: basics, applications, and future directions (2nd Ed.). United States of America: Thousand Oaks: SAGE

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System Concepts
Company Overview

Complete Solutions plc (CS) is a successful organization specializing in IT consultancy business with annual turnover of £40 millions. The company is located at North of England with branches in the U.S. And France. Established in 1980, the company was taken over by a larger company, and the take-over bid led to the rapid expansion of the company. Complete Solution has several sections with approximately 400 users in the UK divisions. The company internal services are based in Manchester with the Training Solutions (TS) consultancy section, Sales, and Marketing section. The overall services of Complete Solution consists of the IT consultancy service as well as selling of hardware and software, training and recruitment, software development and, outsourced services. The other services provided by the Complete Solution are consultancy services. With rapid expansion that the company is enjoying, the Complete Solution is planning to go public by floating on…...

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However, the company did feel it should develop its own Database infrastructure that would work with the new underlying database management system and would mesh with existing organizational skills and the selected enterprise software solution.
Because the company followed a standardized implementation process, they were able to successfully reengineer their existing business structure. The objective of the System Development Life Cycle is to help organizations define what an appropriate system development methodology should be in order for them to continue to meet the rapidly changing business environment. The specific research approach employed by International Lumberyards, Inc. was to follow the steps of the cycle and it helped them dramatically.

Conclusion

This report attempted to analyze a work-related project that used a systems analysis tool for a specific business system. The report focused on the use of the System Development Life Cycle to implement a business or information technology need as well as…...

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System Design: Oahu Base Area Network
The aim of this paper is to examine and discuss the Navy's decision to build the largest local area network (LAN) connecting the U.S. Pacific Fleet using information-gathering techniques and design methods. The system has the capacity to connect sailors and marines within the 102-million square miles of the Pacific Fleet's command coverage. Moreover it will provide the indispensable access for supplying and training the U.S. Navy. The Oahu Base Area Network (OBAN) will be the largest LAN in the world when all the phases are complete. It was started way back in 1998. It is the supporting network for the six naval commands in the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii area. Phase one has been completed. Other phases have begun in San Diego, the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Far East, following the original business model (Kaylor, 2000). The uniqueness of this system is in its…...

System Implementation - Oahu ase Area Network
System Implementation: Oahu ase Area Network

The wireless local area network (WLAN) in the Oahu ase Area Network is made up of several different subsystems. The inputs to the system will be desktop computers, laptop computers, and embedded systems (fixed and mobile). Each client has a wireless network card that can communicate with an access point (AP). The AP manages WLAN traffic and physically connects the wireless system to the wired local area network (LAN). The wired LAN will then send the requested information back to the access points, which will relay it to the appropriate client (Conover, 2000).

The system has three modes of operation:

Op-Mode: This is the standard operating mode for system operation. The mode consists of interaction between clients and one or more server. The clients are wireless devices such as laptops, desktops and tele-robtics platforms. Servers are access points that connect the…...

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However, in the most recent theory of evolution which discusses the living world appears as the result of chance and an output of different randomly selected natural mills. This kind of development came to present as a result of the need of more subjects or topics in areas such as cybernetic, general system theory, information theory, theories of games which is needed in most decision making process in line with real applications. In mathematics techniques however, there are a number of general assumption which are insufficient and most of the time very contradict themselves (Laszlo & Krippner, 1982).
Again, Laszlo (1982) outlined that von Bertalanffy considered the idea of organization to be involved at various stages in the expression of natural system. This could be highlighted from his first statement on the system which he made between the years 1925-1926, during the time when similar thinking of organism was being…...

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Bailey, K.D. (2004). Beyond System Internals: Expanding the Scope of Living Systems Theory. Los Angeles: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Its business alliances have succeeded because of the past encounter and uncompromising principles of Starbucks. When Starbucks created a licensing contract with Kraft Foods, Inc., it permitted Kraft Foods to begin to make Starbucks' items available in grocery markets, and now because of that attempt their items are available all over Northern U.S. And even the United Kingdom. If Starbucks did not have the primary features of what it is looking for in an alliance, it might not have been as effective in its collaboration with Kraft Foods or any other partner. Starbucks was willing to think about the good and bad in the possible collaboration and choose on whether or not the collaboration would benefit its organization (Davidson & Fielden, 2013). If Kraft Foods, Inc. did not have the same corporate perspective and objectives that Starbucks had, Starbucks would not have engaged in business with them. Starbucks has…...

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Beer, S. (2014). Diagnosing the system for organizations. New York, NY: Wiley.

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Attacks on the system security include password theft, back doors and bugs, social engineering, protocol failures, authentication failures, Denial of Service attacks, active attacks, botnets, exponential attacks including worms and viruses, and information leakage. (Fortify Software Inc., 2008); (Fortify Software, n. d.)
Servers are targets of security attacks due to the fact that servers contain valuable data and services. For instance, if a server contains personal information about employees, it can become a target for stealing identities. All types of servers, which include file, database, web, email and infrastructure management servers are vulnerable to security attacks with the threat coming from both external as well as internal sources.

Some of the server problems that can jeopardize its security include: (i) Weakly encrypted or unencrypted information, especially of a sensitive nature, can be intercepted for malicious use while being transmitted from server to client. (ii) Software bugs present in the server Operating…...

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Bace, Rebecca Gurley; Bace, Rebecca. (2000) "Intrusion Detection"

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System Implementation
The implementation stage of the iordan project may prove to be the most challenging yet, but one that is worth all the effort. It would take a team of experts in various fields to successfully see this stage successfully through to completion, it cannot be a one-man show. Several departments within the organization have to be given priority when it comes to rolling out the new human resource management system. Since this system is automated and rests on an Information Technology platform, the first two departments to consider would be the human resource management and Information Technology departments. All the teams of professionals within these departments would have to be part and parcel of the entire system design and development process. The other departments to consider would be those of finance and operations management as they too are a fundamental part of the organization's decision making framework.

Coding

As the new…...

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[1] George, F.J., Valacich, B.J.S., & Hoffer, J.A. (2003). Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall.

[2] Satzinger, J.W., Jackson, R.B., & Burd, S.D. (2008). Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World. London, UK: Cengage Learning EMEA.

[3] Marciniak, J.J. (2002). Encyclopedia of Software Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.

Systems Thinking
The key constructs of systems thinking were constituted in the first half of the 20th century in fields such as psychology, ecology, organismal biology, and cybernetics (Capra 1997). They include: sub-systems/parts/wholes, environment/system/boundary, process/structure, emerging properties, hierarchy of organizations, negative and positive feedback, data and control, open systems, holism, and the observer. The practical application of these constructs in many fields was discovered by von Bertalanffy (1950). He referred to these concepts as general systems theory (GST). These concepts were adapted in Organizational research and Management science (O/MS) and were referred to as management cybernetics (Beer 1967), systems engineering (Hall 1962), system four dynamics (Forrester 1968), and finally, in what we might refer to as the systems approach (Churchman 1968; Klir 1969; Weinberg 1975) (Mingers & White, 2009).

The systems thinking/systems approach, has been closely linked to the growth of organizational research and management science. At the start it was intimately…...

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Burnett SM and Durant-Law GA (2008). Applying the RAAAKERS framework in an analysis of the command and control arrangements of the ADF Garrison Health Support. Journal of Military and Veterans' Health 17: 19-26.