Day: January 14, 2020

Physicians and patients have been affected by development and implementation of Health Information Technology (HIT). There are many other healthcare professionals and venues affected by significant complexities and characteristics that make HIT implementation challenging. For example, standardized data formats are used to facilitate data portability, work culture barriers, system costs, training issues, and other matters. Some Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers have begun to use a variety of portable Electronic Health Records to collect data at the scenes of patient incidents with systems designed to transmit data to receiving hospitals. Overall, however, achieving the Nationwide Health Information Network has been elusive due to administrative and technical difficulties.

To achieve the HIT goals of improving health care quality and reducing costs, extensive and rigorous work remains in the research and implementation arenas. Assume you have just graduated with your Masters degree and you have passed a series of interviews at the top hospital known as We Care Hospital. You are hired as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and your first task is to conduct a SWOT Analysis of the HIT system at We Care Hospital. Research the websites of your local hospital and determine their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats based on the ease of information, access for potential patients, and clinical quality features located on their website that identify the basic operations of the healthcare organization.

Then, prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint 10-slide narrative using a SWOT Analysis. A SWOT Analysis identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in a situation. Review the video: Strategic Planning and SWOT Analysis. To help you prepare the narrative PowerPoint using Microsoft 365 and older versions, review video: Record a slide show with narration and slide timings.

Your 10-slide SWOT PowerPoint should follow this format:

    Slide 1: Cover Page
        Include the title of your presentation, your name, the course number and course title, your professors name, and the date.
    Slide 2: Background / Executive Summary
        Describe the details of the situation. Use bullets with short sentences. The title of this slide should be Executive Summary.
    Slide 3: Thesis Statement
        Identify the focus of your research. The title of this slide should be Thesis Statement.
    Slides 4-9: Support
        Support your thesis statement following the SESC formula: State, Explain, Support, and Conclude. (An overview of using Sublevel 1 and Sublevel 2 headings is provided in the following video: APA Style – Formatting the Title Page, Abstract, and Body.
        You should include at least three court cases and related peer-reviewed articles from within the past five years. In-text citations should be in the American Psychological Association (APA) format.
    Slide 10: References
        Use APA format for your Reference slide. (To help you with APA in-text citations and your Reference list, some students use Citation Machine.

Description of the assignment:

For this assignment you are asked to complete a literature review on one of the below topics. You are asked to critically review between 5-7 educational journal articles on your topic and write a 600-800 word literature review on the articles you’ve selected.

The topics are:

Motivation & Engagement
Negotiation & Persuasion
Cross Cultural Communication

Steps to complete your literature review:

Choose a topic that you are interested in reviewing. It should be looked at as an opportunity to develop your skills in that area as well.

Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your topic. For example, Discuss the barriers that hinder effective team productivity and provide ways of confronting and preventing those challenges in the future.

Search for and locate academic journal articles and books that include your topic’s information.

Select at least 5-7 academic journal articles to review. Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.

Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.

Write your review.

Please read carefully and answer the questions:

Description of the assignment:

For this assignment you are asked to complete a literature review on one of the below topics. You are asked to critically review between 5-7 educational journal articles on your topic and write a 600-800 word literature review on the articles you’ve selected.

The topics are:

– Negotiation & Persuasion
– Team Productivity & Performance
– Creativity & Critical Thinking
– Cross Cultural Communication

Steps to complete your literature review:

1) Choose a topic that you are interested in reviewing. It should be looked at as an opportunity to develop your skills in that area as well.

2) Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your topic. For example, Discuss the barriers that hinder effective team productivity and provide ways of confronting and preventing those challenges in the future.

3) Search for and locate academic journal articles and books that include your topic’s information.

4) Select at least 5-7 academic journal articles to review. Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.

5)Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.

6) Write your review.

   
Objectives

This assignment examines the management of an individual project and as such will draw upon the skills, concepts and models we have discussed in the course to apply them in a real-world setting.

The exercise is designed to illustrate the practical challenges involved in managing the project, including the evaluation of good practice and/or problem areas for the project. Analysis of the project should make use of models, concepts and frameworks from the course lectures and your wider reading.

Project selection

Select a project where you can collect and analyze sufficient secondary (and/or primary) data to derive meaningful and strong insights. The project may be in the public, private or third sector.  This is not a typical research project, so sources may be from your selected organizations website, your knowledge of the project, government and consultancy reports as well as journal articles.

When analyzing your chosen project, you could consider some of the following issues (remember, its important to focus you work!):

Project objectives and scope
Assessment of how the project was organized and delivered
Evaluation of how stakeholders were managed
Assessment of approaches to managing risk and failure
Why was the project a success or failure?
Identification of problem areas and/or areas of good practice
Identification of lessons learnt that can be transferred to other projects
Your report should be 2000 words (10%) and use reference style APA v6. It should be typed with a font size 12, 1.5 spacing and must look professional. Your report needs to be well-structured, divided into numbered sections that correspond logically to your chosen structure and presentation. You should also include an overall introduction and conclusion.

The report should focus on 1-2 key project management issue(s) (e.g. project scoping, risk management, stakeholder management, project learning, project delivery, project planning, etc) which you should select after careful investigation (Remember, focusing down on topics will allow for greater depth in your analysis and recommendations). Please underline your investigation of project data (e.g. company reports, government reports, project case studies, interviews, etc.) with appropriate academic references to strengthen your argument. An essential feature of the report is to illustrate how theoretical constructs or models can help to explain the actions of organisations, project managers, or key stakeholders in practice. You are therefore advised to read widely. In fact, unless you have read and referenced at least 10 discrete references, it is unlikely that you have done sufficient reading.

The word limit includes the main text (including in-text references, tables and figures) but not the list of references at the end of your report. The main text starts with the first word in the introduction/background section and ends at the last word in your conclusion section. The word limit does not include the title, abstract, table of contents, exec summary if you decide to have one, reference list or appendices (I would not expect a long list of appendices.). Sticking to a strict word limit is an important skill for you to acquire, so make sure that you write in a concise and focused manner.

please read carefully !!

Objectives

This assignment examines the management of an individual project and as such will draw upon the skills, concepts and models we have discussed in the course to apply them in a real-world setting.

The exercise is designed to illustrate the practical challenges involved in managing the project, including the evaluation of good practice and/or problem areas for the project. Analysis of the project should make use of models, concepts and frameworks from the course lectures and your wider reading.

Project selection

Select a project where you can collect and analyze sufficient secondary (and/or primary) data to derive meaningful and strong insights. The project may be in the public, private or third sector.  This is not a typical research project, so sources may be from your selected organizations website, your knowledge of the project, government and consultancy reports as well as journal articles.

When analyzing your chosen project, you could consider some of the following issues (remember, its important to focus you work!):

-) Project objectives and scope
-) Assessment of how the project was organized and delivered
-) Evaluation of how stakeholders were managed
-) Assessment of approaches to managing risk and failure
-) Why was the project a success or failure?
-) Identification of problem areas and/or areas of good practice
-) Identification of lessons learnt that can be transferred to other projects

Your report should be 2000 words (10%) and use reference style APA v6. It should be typed with a font size 12, 1.5 spacing and must look professional. Your report needs to be well-structured, divided into numbered sections that correspond logically to your chosen structure and presentation. You should also include an overall introduction and conclusion.

The report should focus on 1-2 key project management issue(s) (e.g. project scoping, risk management, stakeholder management, project learning, project delivery, project planning, etc) which you should select after careful investigation (Remember, focusing down on topics will allow for greater depth in your analysis and recommendations). Please underline your investigation of project data (e.g. company reports, government reports, project case studies, interviews, etc.) with appropriate academic references to strengthen your argument. An essential feature of the report is to illustrate how theoretical constructs or models can help to explain the actions of organisations, project managers, or key stakeholders in practice. You are therefore advised to read widely. In fact, unless you have read and referenced at least 10 discrete references, it is unlikely that you have done sufficient reading.

The word limit includes the main text (including in-text references, tables and figures) but not the list of references at the end of your report. The main text starts with the first word in the introduction/background section and ends at the last word in your conclusion section. The word limit does not include the title, abstract, table of contents, exec summary if you decide to have one, reference list or appendices (I would not expect a long list of appendices.). Sticking to a strict word limit is an important skill for you to acquire, so make sure that you write in a concise and focused manner.

Description of the assignment:

For this assignment you are asked to complete a literature review on ONE of the below topic:

– Negotiation & Persuasion
– Team Productivity & Performance
– Creativity & Critical Thinking
– Cross Cultural Communication

You are asked to critically review between 5-7 educational journal articles (please only use online articles for this) on your topic and write a 600-800 word literature review on the articles you’ve selected.

Steps to complete your literature review:

Choose a topic that you are interested in reviewing. It should be looked at as an opportunity to develop your skills in that area as well.

Formulate an inquiry question that specifically describes what would like to know about your topic. For example, Discuss the barriers that hinder effective team productivity and provide ways of confronting and preventing those challenges in the future.

Search for and locate academic journal articles and books that include your topic’s information.

Select at least 5-7 academic journal articles to review. Read your articles and begin to sort and classify them according to their findings.

Organize your articles by sorting and classifying their findings in a meaningful way, always considering your original topic and inquiry question.

Write your review.