IT Management
Consider ONE of the following scenarios:
1. You are an IT Director hired by a newly established telemedicine business. Your company’s headquarters and data center are located in a large metropolitan area and you have all the resources necessary to succeed with a server, network, and application infrastructure. The company’s business plan is to provide a telemedicine-driven solution for improving accessibility of care to patients in rural areas.
2. You are an IT Director of a large healthcare system and your employer made a decision to build a new hospital within 15 miles of your current location. Your main data center will remain in the same location, and all your clinical applications will be made available to the new hospital. However, you need to plan a network infrastructure to extend access to all clinical applications at the new location.
You are expected to:
1. Identify all critical elements and technologies necessary to achieve the stated goals of your project. Critical elements and technology pertain to the physical items and equipment you’re going to need to make your network run properly; e.g., routers, modems, servers, transmission media, etc. It’s the nuts and bolts, the hardware of your operation that the data actually uses to get from Point A to Point B.
2. Describe the resources you will require to achieve your project goals. Resources are those elements that help you get the job done; Capital (money), stakeholder buy-in, licensing, manpower, support services, etc.
3. Architect, at a high level, your proposed solution and draw a diagram in a software application of your choice. The diagram belongs in the body of the paper or in the appendix. Do not send it as a separate file. A high-level diagram is 1. referenced in the text; 2. the names for the items in the text match the items on the diagram; 3. is clear/unambiguous; 4. all items are labeled; 5. connections are displayed.
4. List and describe clinical applications that will run on your proposed infrastructure.
5. Identify benefits and risks to business operations and patient care environment, resulting from your proposed solution.
6. Briefly describe to senior management why your solution is a good fit and how you will address the risks identified above.
Sample Solution
IT management, often known as information technology management, is the process of organizing your company’s technological systems. This can include the people in charge of managing your company’s technology, the management tools you utilize, or any other relevant activity. Many companies are putting IT management at the top of their priority list these days. Because IT administration is concentrated on hardware, software, and networks, the result is a better and more reliable internal structure. To some extent, IT management necessitates the leadership of an individual or team in all things IT. Others in the company could lack technical knowledge.
