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An 8 page paper providing a task list and risk management plan for an IT project at a nonprofit community hospital. The hospital will be providing prescription drugs to patients at a discount, which before Medicare's prescription plan would not have been permitted. The paper identifies five risks and mitigation strategies for those risks. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSprojPlRiskHosp.rtf
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Hospital, a public, nonprofit community hospital, has determined that it will undertake a project to provide prescription drugs to un- or underinsured patients. This appears to be a relatively
small project consisting of changing prices for a few patients, but it must be undertaken with absolute accuracy or risk charges of fraud by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare
Services (CMS). It is the Medicare prescription plan that enables the hospital to implement this program now. The goal of the project
is to provide Acme Hospital with an internal system that will bill specific patients a much lower rate for prescription drugs than it bills those patients fully covered by extensive
insurance policies. Prices allowed by Medicare will fluctuate, and at no time can prices charged to patients not qualifying for Medicare be lower than the lowest price Medicare supports.
Part A: Task and Risk Management Plan Task Plan Acme Hospital currently has no systems similar to that which it seeks to establish
for itself. As envisioned, the final system will require new hardware and software, as well as new business processes. Many organizations make the mistake of trying to fit
old systems to new needs, but Acme Hospital appears not to be hindered by this affliction. It fully expects to acquire all new hardware and software to make the
system workable, functional and valuable. Phillips-Wren, Hahn and Forgionne (2004) note that many "firms do not have formal methods for evaluation of the
make versus buy decision and often make the decision on the basis of a single criterion such as overhead costs" (p. 323). The stories of any industry professional certainly
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