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Bob Hirsh, from Deloitte Consulting, referred to the term “technical debt” . Which of the following best describes the concept of technical debt. 

In the reading “Beyond Valuation: Options Thinking in IT Project Management” the authors, citing the shortcoming of traditional investment evaluation methodologies, advocate that organizations use rigorous, quantitative option valuation models for project evaluation. 

__________ is the standard preferred approach to evaluate most IT investments. 

If an organization has partnered with Deloitte to develop an Enterprise Architecture plan, then they are almost certainly pursuing a _________________ IT competency and a ____________ IT operating mode. 

In a Use Case Point analysis, which item is used to adjust use-case points based on the skills and competency of the development team.

Strategic Recommendation for Scenario A. Offer one specific strategic recommendation for the health care organization to handle this scenario.  For your recommendation, explain how your recommendation addresses the most important legal issue.

Key legal issue, concepts, and relevant key fact for each concept, for Scenario A (Beginning in 2015, senior management at Scrubs Health System embarked on a scheme to recruit physicians for employment for the purpose of capturing their lucrative “downstream referrals.” Scrubs successfully recruited hundreds of local physicians, including cardiovascular specialists, neurosurgeons, and breast surgeons, by paying them salaries that were significantly higher – sometimes as much as double – than what they were receiving in their own private practices. Scrubs hired a valuation firm to analyze the compensation it proposed paying to its recruited specialists. Scrubs knowingly provided the firm with false compensation figures so that the firm would render a favorable opinion. The Complaint further alleged that Scrubs ignored repeated warnings from the valuation firm regarding the legal perils of overcompensating its physicians. Scrubs then submitted claims to Medicare for services that resulted from referrals from these recruited physicians.)  Identify the most important health law issue, the key requirements / legal concepts for the most important issue as represented here, and a key fact related to each legal concept.

Legal & Ethical Analysis, and Strategic Implications: Scenario C Read the following article from Health Watch: HealthWatch Why tough to reduce unnecessary medical care.pdf

Louise Penny’s recent novel, The Madness of Crowds, is set post-COVID.  However, COVID has left its mark, including significant strains on the solvency of the Canadian government.  The old normal cannot be restored because of the cultural and economic aftershocks catalyzed by the pandemic. To address those issues, the fictional Canadian government has commissioned a renowned statistician, Abigail Robinson, to delete emotion and politics from the recovery equation and analyze what, exactly, must be done to rebuild national solvency and stability, and prevent the same disaster from ever happening again.  According to Robinson’s analysis, the sick and elderly used too many of the country’s resources during the pandemic. In other words, people who were the most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus, who would die soon anyway, were putting a strain on the country’s finances, medical supplies and personnel.  It is, she says, “a crisis heightened but not created by the pandemic.”  Based on her analysis, Robinson concludes that the solution is a program of “mercy killing,” as she calls it – of the ill, the handicapped and the aged.  Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her recommendations, “ça va bien aller” (all will be well).

Part II: Legal & Ethical Analysis, and Strategic Implications (Total – 60 points) For these scenarios:    First, identify a key legal issue and legal concepts that relate to the first and second scenarios, and the ethical concerns / tradeoffs that relate to the third scenario.  Key legal concepts include key requirements for a relevant legal issue (such as the multiple choice answer options covered in Part I).  Also, for each of these legal concepts, identify a key fact or facts that is / are relevant for analyzing that concept.  Likewise for the ethical concerns / tradeoffs, identify stakeholders and key fact/s that are relevant to the ethical concern.  It is recommended you use a table/s such as these: Legal Issue Legal Concept Key Fact Key Legal Issue for 1st scenario LC 1 F1 “” LC 2 F2 “” LC 3 F3 “” LC 4 F4 For example, if Negligence were a key issue, you would have a table like this (note – duty & damages are normally straightforward, so they are not included) Legal Issue Legal Concept Key Fact Negligence Breach Fact about breach “” Causation Fact about causation   Ethical Concern / Tradeoff Relevant Stakeholder Key Fact ECT RS 1 F5 “” RS 2 F6 “” RS 3 F7     Then, offer and explain your strategic recommendations.