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You are the chief information technology officer at a small outpatient health care facility in Riyadh. The medical facility employs five specialist physicians, ten certified nurses, five administrative assistants, and two technicians. There are 25 clinical rooms. Each room is equipped with a computer. In addition, five computers are used by the administrative assistants for patients’ appointments and records. All of these computers are connected using a local area network. Physicians are supplied with portable devices that they can use to write e-prescriptions. These devices are connected wirelessly to the rest of the network.

As the chief information technology officer, you are charged with the task of evaluating the security status of the facility network and developing a report to recommend the directions that should be followed in the near future.

Your report should include the following materials:

  • Existing and potential vulnerabilities and threats
  • Suggestions and discussions of methods or tools that can be used to overcome the existing and potential security threats
  • Discussion of encryption techniques that can be used for the wireless network and the selection and justification of a proper technique for this facility
  • Discussion of the prevention of cyber-attacks and the proper maintenance needed to achieve this goal.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be 8 to 9 pages in length
  • Contain illustrative diagrams for the considered systems
  • Include at least five credible external references in addition to the textbook
  • Formatted according to APA writing guidelines.

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Adoption of New Technology Systems

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Adoption of New Technology Systems
As a nurse, there is an important role to play as a change agent in adoption of technology.
The success or failure of adoption of electronic health records (EHR) depends on the approach
used. Presentation of EHR systems to nurses may face different outcomes, for example,
resistance or acceptance. Winning the approval of nurses requires the use of proper strategies.
Rogers (2003) theory of diffusion of innovation is effective in dealing with implementation of a
new technology. Nurses have an important role to play as change agents during adoption of new
technology. Organizational change involves challenges such as resistance to change that need to
be dealt with by leaders (Fickenscher & Bakerman, 2011). There are activities that are
important in dealing with resistance to change.
Adoption of EHR influences the working environment of nurses; therefore they need to
be involved in change that affects them. Everett Rogers identified five important qualities that
determine attitudes towards adoption of new technology. These five qualities are relative
advantage, simplicity, triability, compatibility and finally observable results. The attitudes of
nurses towards implementation of electronic health records are influenced by the five qualities.
Acceptance of change is highly likely to take place when there is relative advantage. An
improvement from the current state is an indicator of relative advantage.
Compatibility with existing practices is another important quality that Everett Rogers
points out. Aligning new innovations with current practices plays a crucial role in bringing about
acceptance of change. This avoid resistance to change because nurses see that the new
innovation is in alignment with current practice. Simplicity contributes to acceptance of change
because complexity leads to lack of understanding. For the case of EHR, the technology is

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clearly triable to show what it is capable of. Evidence of the success of the proposed innovation
is crucial in bringing about accept...


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