Assignment Question:
Task 1.
You are the expert Management Consultant of the Creating and Managing Digital Systems department
in the Healthcare Digital Systems Grp. (HDS-Grp). It is a new company with speciality in Healthcare
Digital and Information Systems. It has over ninety (90) new clients around the UK, Canada and mostly
in the United States. Despite being a new company in the Contemporary Digital Healthcare, Innovation
and Enterprise business sector, it has quickly grown its reputation to be among one of the best
knowledge based organisations in the sector. It has a very wealthy, E-Healthcare, E-Commerce and
Online Start-Up clienteles who take Healthcare information systems and privacy of their customers
seriously.
The CEO of HDS-Grp has asked you to prepare a report for one of your company’s new clients in the
Healthcare Information Systems sector on “Why do contemporary information systems technology
and the internet pose challenges to the protection of individual privacy and intellectual property”
The report ideally should include:
1. Introduction: Define privacy and fair Information Practices (6)
2. Main body: include:
2a. Describe why some Healthcare organisations have become dependent and vulnerable because of
using Information Systems. (12.5)
2b. Explain some of the internet challenges faced in view of the protection of Healthcare staff, patients
and customers data, privacy and intellectual property. (12.5)
2c. Explain how informed consent, legislation, industry self–regulation and technology tools help
protect the individual privacy of internet users. (12.5)
2d. Discuss two ways that protect intellectual property rights. (12.5)
3. Conclusion: (7)
4. Recommendation: (7)
Total Marks: 70%
