All levels of management have the burden of insring that appropriate information systems are in place to bring about a productive profitable organization. The objective of this course is to meet the challenges now and into the next century. All professionals need to acquire business skills to best acheive the benefits of information technology. The impact of the Internet, and in particular the World Wide Web, on organizations has been dramatic. Newspapers and information resources are available online.
Consumers purchase books and airline tickets and conduct online stock trades using the Web.
Hand in hand with these developments has been the merger of multimedia and computing on the Web. Vast archives of audio, video, and images are available on the Web. The objective of these lectures is to provide an overview of key technologies underlying the Internet, the Web, and Electronic Commerce, their applications in the healthcare domain and to discuss issues such as technology strategy and planning for migration related to the deployment of these emerging technologies within an organization.