Why do Information Systems and/or Information Technologies often fail to be implemented in healthcare?

N1039 Information Systems

Choose one of the following essay topics. The essay should be 2,000 words (excluding references), should employ Harvard referencing and should maintain professional levels of style, spelling and punctuation. For all essay topics you must engage with relevant readings (essential, recommended, further readings) provided in the Information Systems module. You can use examples and case studies discussed in lectures and workshops to illustrate your arguments.

Note the following conditions that lead to automatic fail:

Lack of systematic use of relevant readings provided and discussed in the Information Systems module.
Lack of use of references (lack of in-text citations and reference list in the end of the essay).
Lack of use of academic resources (journals, conference proceedings, books or book chapters).

Essay topics

Apply the sociotechnical debate (technological determinism versus social determinist) to the emergence of crowd working platforms.

Why do Information Systems and/or Information Technologies often fail to be implemented in healthcare? Discuss this critically using examples.

Drawing upon two examples demonstrate the political nature of the Internet.

Can knowledge workers be substituted by technology? Discuss this using examples.