Telemedicine: The Next Generation of Healthcare?
A large regional hospital in Florida wrestles with the issues associated with adopting telemedicine standards in an age of electronic health records and increasing compliance concerns.
Category «Information Systems»
Tribridge Health360: A Platform for Quality Care
Tribridge, an award-winning provider of cloud services specifically designed for Microsoft ERP solutions, needs to decide how to move its Health360 platform forward. Of particular concern was deciding how to position it with respect to Microsoft, who supplied the underlying platform on which the application was built.
ReliaQuest: Behind Enemy Lines
A client of a security services firm has received an email from the dark web demanding a ransom or it will start selling data it has stolen from the client. The client as asked for the firm’s assistance in paying the ransom. How should the company proceed?
Employing Dynamic Logic in Cybersecurity
A physicist who studies the human brain has adapted dynamic logic, a machine learning algorithm he developed, to run on a test database of network traffic. The algorithm has proven surprisingly adept at identifying malware traffic. Now he ponders how the project might move forward, given that cybersecurity is entirely outside of his domain of …
Grandon.com Got Hacked!
A professor in information systems discovers that his personal website has been hacked. Even worse, his ISP has suspended his site because the defacement included a PayPal phishing scheme. This is not the first time this has happened. How should he recover?
A Cybersecurity Executive DBA?
After the successful launch of a DBA program for working executives, the program’s academic director ponders whether or not there might be an opportunity to create a cybersecurity doctoral program based on the existing program’s research core.
A Digitally Enabled Strategic Sourcing Process to Mitigate Risk
A South African insurance company is considering how to automate the process of handling home insurance repair claims in order to make the process more efficient and improve the customer experience. Should they stick with the status quo, develop their own system, purchase existing technology or employ a hybrid solution?
Standard Bank: The Agile Transformation
South Africa’s largest bank has recently completed a transformation from traditional systems development to the scaled agile framework. The individual leading the transformation is now considering how to keep the momentum going and possible new directions.
Virtualization Footprint: Why Re-Invest?
Mark Dumas, a Systems Specialist at a Telecommunications Company located in South Africa needed to make decisions regarding the current virtualized infrastructure platform. These decisions also involved the renewal of hardware that had reached the end of its maintenance period and the latest virtualization platform software. Dumas further needed to formulate a plan to ensure …
LifeInsure: Choosing a Product Administration System to Manage Their Product Lifecycle
Joseph Bromer, Head of IT Solutions Delivery at LifeInsure Emerging Markets, deliberated on a challenge that he had just been given. TIBCO, a vendor supporting ObjectStar, notified LifeInsure that support for the application would cease at the end of 2017. ObjectStar was the Product Administration System (PAS) system used by LifeInsure. The ObjectStar platform was …