CemexGo provides customer-facing digitized business processes to Cemex customers. This is an example of which component of Weill and Woerner’s Digital Business Model:

Volvo IT, as presented in the Gartner reading,  operates as a:

The set of policies and processes that enable IT to support and execute the organization’s mission and strategic plan would best be described as: 

Caterpiller has standard products and operations in various locations across the globe. A a bulldozer is produced with the same standard processes in North America as in Asia. However, Caterpiller has distinct marketing divisions, and maintains separate analytics capabilities for the distinct regions. Based on the information above, what best describes Caterpiller’s IT operating mode?  

Slack offers a platform whereby content providers can offer add-on solutions to Slack which can be purchased by Slack users.  According to our Gartner reading “How to Select the Best Platform Business Model”, which business model is described in the previous sentence. 

AMID and MedicAlert make medical-identification jewelry. AMID’s jewelry displays the wearer’s critical medical information, so emergency personnel can see the medical conditions on the jewelry itself.  MedicAlert’s jewelry displays a toll-free phone number that emergency personnel can call to obtain information on the wearer’s medical conditions. AMID markets its medical-identification products in part by sending unsolicited mass-mailed countertop displays with tear-off pads attached to doctors’ offices. These displays are intended to be placed in doctors’ waiting rooms or lobbies, where patients gather or pass through. AMID includes a letter to each doctor’s office explaining what to do with the enclosed display and the importance of patients wearing medical-identification jewelry. This dispute began after a former AMID marketing manager, codefendant Justin Noland, resigned from AMID and went to work at MedicAlert. MedicAlert had sold its medical-identification jewelry since the 1950s, but it had not mailed unsolicited countertop displays to doctors’ offices for the prior six years. MedicAlert resumed the mailings after Noland began working there. AMID presents evidence showing the similarities between its letter to doctors and its display, and those recently sent by MedicAlert.

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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.

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

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.