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Based on these facts only:  FinSec operates with the stated IT strategy to “keep the lights on”. FinSec IT centrally manages the IT infrastructure. Applications are on mainframe technologies, but data for these applications are not integrated. Which best describes FinSec’s IT competency level: 

Since our reading of the case, CEMEX has developed CEMEX go, which implements features of existing business process applications to provide users with mobile access to orders, deliveries, and other IT-enabled processes.   Which best describes this level of IT competency: 

A multidivisional firm organizes IT as a profit center. If a division wanted a new application developed developed by the central IT departnment, the costs would be allocated in which way?

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.