Case 1 Write - up Background On October 1996‚ there was one massive merges happened in the Eastern Massachusetts. The merge was driven by financial pressures and intensified competition‚ which finally resulting in CareGroup‚ a hospital group with $1.6 billion in revenue‚ the second-largest group of hospitals in eastern Massachusetts. The CareGroup formed in a three-way merge by three hospitals at beginning‚ and then encompassed four other hospitals. By 2002‚ all of these hospitals had been brought
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Case Analysis: CareGroup Brief Synopsis The case “CareGroup” prepared by the Harvard Business School recounts an astonishing tale of how the health-care company CareGroup’s leading state-of-the-art information technology (IT) systems had abruptly collapsed for three and a half days‚ what actions they took to recover‚ and the invaluable lessons learned through them. Background and Analysis On October 1‚ 1996 three prominent hospitals in eastern Massachusetts merged together to form CareGroup
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CareGroup‚ a team of health-care professionals consisting of several care facilities‚ provided a wide-range of healthcare services for the residents of eastern Massachusetts. John Halamka‚ CareGroup’s CIO‚ was in charged with managing everything that’s IT related for CareGroup. Under his leadership‚ IT systems of the facilities were upgraded and brought together under a common system‚ Meditech. On November 13‚ 2002‚ CareGroup’s network experienced a network collapse‚ causing every software application
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1. The underlying cause of the collapse of the CareGroup system was a hidden problem with the network architecture that started with the merger in 1996. Over time individual smaller networks had been added by connecting them together with bridges and switches. Little did CareGroup’s IT department know‚ this flat configuration becomes problematic when there are more than seven connected segments. After seven connections of bridges or switches‚ communication between networks can drop causing components
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CareGroup Case Summary CareGroup was formed in a three way merger of hospitals in 1996‚ becoming a health-care team dedicated to providing personalized care to patients through a broad spectrum of available services. The merger was precipitated by increased need for negotiating and contracting power to respond to the HMOs‚ the possibility of developing integrated services to improve quality of care while driving down costs and the need for a strong balance sheet. The hospitals involved in the
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Running head: CAREGROUP CASE STUDY 1 CareGroup Case Study Sharon C. Perelman Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies Health Care Operations 404 Jay Anderson November 1‚ 2011 CAREGROUP CASE STUDY 2 CareGroup Case Study In order to be properly prepared for an outage in the magnitude of what transpired to the CareGroup network‚ systems and process control may have prevented this unfortunate event from occurring. Instituting a preventive approach to network functionality
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Caregroup – Individual Case by Jess Møller Knudsen 1. List several strengths and weaknesses of Caregroup in its competitive environment at the time of the case. A) Strengths: - Merge of the hospitals improved economic results as they were able to lower the total costs - Merge improved the bargaining power against HMOs - Wide range of specialty services close to where the individuals lived or worked B) Weaknesses: - Operational coordination across the hospitals had turned out to be extremely
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History: CareGroup‚ Inc. ("CareGroup") is a Massachusetts non-profit corporation that oversees a regional health care delivery system comprised of teaching and community hospitals‚ physician groups and other caregivers. CareGroup’s purposes include the support of personalized‚ patient-centered care and excellence in medical education and research. CareGroup’s affiliated hospitals and physicians serve the health needs of patients and communities of greater Boston and other surrounding communities
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Bradley Herman INFO 290-10 May 15‚ 2007 CareGroup ITIL Action Plan† Executive Summary The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) provides a framework of best practices for managing information technology services. Adopting the ITIL Service Support model can help CareGroup avoid another incident like the network collapse of November‚ 2002. Because implementing the entire service management framework will take years and is an expensive proposition‚ the author recommends starting
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Case Study Analysis Paper Prepare a 1‚400 to 1‚750-word case study analysis paper based on the University of Phoenix Material‚ “Case Study for Student Analysis‚” located in Week Two of the COMM/215 [pic] page. Below is a detailed description explaining how to prepare a case study analysis paper. ____________________________________________________________ _________________ Typically written in narrative form‚ a case sets forth‚ in a factual manner‚ the events and organizational circumstances
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