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Your answer should be exactly 15 pages, the cover page, references, and appendices are NOT included in the 15 pages answer. Use Times New Roman, 12-point font, double-spacing, and
1” margins all around. Use APA Guidelines 2020 (7th Edition) and a properly formatted cover
page. The whole document should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file
For ease of reading, please include headings and subheadings aligned to the required eleven
tasks throughout your paper.
1) Define ransomware attacks and provide a historical background of ransomware attacks on the
US healthcare industry.
2) Using systems thinking, conduct a root-cause analysis of ransomware attacks.
3) Using systems thinking, conduct a thorough stakeholder analysis pertaining to your facility
and ransomware attack (provide some rationale).
4) Using systems thinking, discuss the impact of the ransomware attack on your operations and
the stakeholders.
5) Describe and discuss the healthcare law that your organization inadvertently violated due to
data breach.
6) Based on your responses in 1), 2), 3), 4), and 5) generate three strategic alternative solutions
to deal with the attack (provide some rationale on all your scoring including the weights for
each decision criterion).
7) Address and consider the legality of each of your solutions to this problem. Do not provide
solutions which would be considered illegal or questionable to any faction.
8) Recommend the best alternative solution (provide some rationale).
9) Provide a plan to communicate and implement the best alternative to the stakeholders
10) Guide the Executive Team with respect to managing the changes required to implement the
best alternative.
11) What measures should be put in place to prevent this unfortunate event from happening
again?
