Marc A. Moore
CMGT 583 IS Integration
25 March 2013
John Sallee
Recommendation for Peachtree Healthcare This paper will make some recommendation for Peachtree Healthcare to solve its IT problems using the case study from Harvard Business Review. Choosing one of four commentator’s opinion from the commentaries, will help distinguish which one will make the most sense for the organization. Peachtree Healthcare The purpose of the Peachtree Healthcare is to make sure that standard in quality, consistency, and continuity of care within the is adhere to at all times to provide efficiency, economy, and respect at the highest levels for patients and staff.
Executive Summary The organization is facing a technological infrastructure problem. The issue that technology innovation is growing rapidly, it is critical that the organization needs to get on-board to implement a system comparable to what is common and standard throughout the healthcare industry. The organization must adopt an IT infrastructure with consideration on both long-term and short-term strategies to improve efficiency. The implementation of new system will allow a better record-keeping of patient’s information, quality assurance, reliability, and stability of system within the entire network of hospitals and physicians following the right processes.
Findings
The current system is unreliable that creates panic and deters staffs to perform daily functions posing risk on both the patients and staffs. The CEO witnessing the repetitive problem that many of the staff is facing daily brings a situation of struggle to find and appropriate system to implement. Incompatibility of different legacy systems through acquisition of companies from merging results in IT process inefficiencies. Support and maintenance for the existing system would lead to a more costly system eventually because it will still require for
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