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You have recently joined Perthshire Healthcare Services Ltd who are a local medical establishment that manage GP surgeries throughout the Perth & Kinross and Angus areas in Scotland

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You have recently joined Perthshire Healthcare Services Ltd who are a local medical establishment that manage GP surgeries throughout the Perth & Kinross and Angus areas in Scotland.

Whilst reviewing their continuity plans you have discovered that a mobile app has been built to support their other business functions. The app is intended to support diabetics control their condition to reduces potential crises and other side effects. 

The app helps diabetics by providing nutritional information on a range of food stuffs including carbohydrates and sugars and allows users to keep track of their eating habits via a food diary system.

Whilst the business has established governance policies and conducted appropriate risk assessments for the rest of their business and has suitable protective technology and business continuity plans for their business more broadly, a risk assessment of the app has not been conducted, and plans for managing potential incidents have not been made.

Question:

Based on the scenario below critically evaluate the impact that the app will have on the organisation's current implementation tier. You may make any reasonable assumptions regarding the organisation's policies and procedures by extrapolating from the given scenario.

Analysis should also comment on potential threats to the organisation and what risks are associated.  Also provide recommendations about what actions the organisation can take.