Compose a maintenance plan for an information system for managing patient records and healthcare data. Attached is a stakeholder matrix to give an outline of the system.

Part 6: Maintenance Plan

For this part of the project, you will need to create a maintenance plan that outlines the projected longevity and upkeep of the software. Identify the scope of maintenance, level of upkeep, duration of support, and the resource requirements necessary. Include discussion of the following:

• Estimated costs for support
• Timeline of maintenance milestones
• Major updates and versions planned
• Potential new functionality
• Risk areas with potential defects
• Plan for discontinuation/replacement

Parameters: two to three pages (minimum), APA, 12-point font, double spaced

Stakeholders name	Objective	Possible conflicts	Criticality	How much time they can devote	Level of involvement	Impact on cost	Impact on functionality
Patient	To access personal health data	May provide biased or false information at times	High	Depends	High	Low	Medium
Health professional/Nurses	To file and manage patients health data and diagnostic	May make errors while feeding data to system	Medium	Full	Medium	Low	Medium
Doctor	To access, analyze patients data, suggest diagnostics , issue prescription etc.	May ignore certain symptoms thus making errors in diagnostics	High	Depends	High	High	High
Pharmacist	To access system to issue medicines as per prescription	May not understand prescription fully, thus leading to wrong issue of medicines	High	As and when require	Medium	High	High
Lab technician	To access patients health data, To feed results and details of lab tests etc.	May make errors while feeding data to system	Medium	Full	Medium	Low	Medium
Pathologist	To conduct and analyze lab tests, issue reports etc.	May ignore certain symptoms thus making errors in diagnostics	High	Depends	High	High	High