System Administration and Management in Healthcare

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. explain the fundamental principles of database, operating systems, and server administration to recommend functional solutions suitable in a range of small-scale operations; 2. develop basic server administration and maintenance skills to effectively manage a stable, small-scale networked environment; and 3. configure the functionality of simple, multi-component real-life network infrastructures to achieve effective communications in a variety of contexts.

Content management, content deployment (file system planning and structure), server administration and management, user and group management, backup management, security management, disaster recovery, resource management, automation management (automatic job scheduling), site management notebooks and documents, system support, user support and education; administrative domains – web domain, network domain, database domain, operating systems domain, and support domain; secure installation; removing unnecessary components; file system maintenance (isolation of sensitive data); user restrictions (access and authorisations); user/group/file management; password standards and requirements; shutting down unnecessary/unneeded services; closing unnecessary/unneeded ports; patch management/software updates; virtualisation; vulnerability scanning.