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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Communications Team determines when an outage in T-Mobile network must be reported to the FCC and that Team is responsible for filing the FCC notification and reports. If an outage is FCC-reportable‚ a Customer Impact Message (CIM) is created. A reportable outage is the inability to complete a 911 call or provide location information to a PSAP or a Blocked Call condition where the user is on the T-Mobile network but unable to complete a call. Not all FCC reportable outages require a PSAP Notification. PSAP
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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. CareGroup
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Power Outages that Plagues the Philippines All countries have different plagues that led them to bedevil in raising their growing economy. Like the Philippines we are facing a tribulations in the power outages of our country. Energy crisis is one of the struggles facing our country. Power supply have a big part in our lives that make our life easy in doing tasks. Just think of how your life will be without electricity or power. We all know how inconvenient it is without electricity so were afraid
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Out line Power outage 1. Introduction: Electricity makes our lives easier and more enjoyable‚ since almost all of our modern conveniences are electrically powered. We could survive without electricity. This statement: Power outage is one of the serious problems that Egypt face‚ but dose really we have a solution for that problem? 2. Topic sentence: A power outage (also power cut) is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area which has its causes
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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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Economic Cost of “Power Outages” By Dr. Aisha Ghaus-Pasha Table of Contents Page No. 1. Causes of Power Outages 1 2. Quantifying Outage Costs 2 3. Incidence of Outages 4 4. Pattern of Direct Costs 5 5. Types of Adjustments to Outages 5 6. Extent of Recovery of Output 6 7. Total Outage Costs to the Industrial Sector 6 8. National Costs of Load Shedding 7 9. Policy Implications 9 9.1. Investment in Power Sector 9 9.2. Load Management
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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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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 together on a common system with the Meditech software at the center. This system was believed to be the most advanced network system in the United States. 1. a. What is
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