What Is the Nature of the Organization You Have Selected, Its Mission and the High-Level Purpose of Their Information System?

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Week One Assignment What is the nature of the organization you have selected, its mission and the high-level purpose of their information system? University Medical Center is a department of the University of Alabama. It has a dual purpose, to teach medical students and provide medical care for the community. Their mission statement states, “We are dedicated to improving and promoting the health of individuals and communities in Alabama and the region through leadership in medical education and primary care; the provision of high quality, accessible health care services; and scholarship” (university medical 2013). There are seven different clinics within the facility, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, sports medicine, and a faculty-staff clinic. The clinic also has its own testing lab that collects and runs blood and urine tests. Though there are many different practices within the same organization there is one information system tying all of them together. Many patients use the medical center as its primary care facility, which makes the facility a comprehensive care center for them, which is the high level purpose of their information system. That is to say that their primary care doctor has the ability to refer them to anyone of the other disciplines using the information system that is in place. There is no need for a patient to have physical copies of their medical records for a referral visit because all that information is available through the network. Who is the owner of the system? As previously stated the University medical Center is a department of the University of Alabama. That being the case the technical owner of the clinic would be the state of Alabama. However, for this remainder this paper the responses will be from the point of view of the institutions president rather than the state whose

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