Evaluation of Communication Plan for Public Health Informatics Project

Running head: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Management
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction and Background.........................................................................................................2
1. Assessment of the current communication plan........................................................................2
2. Communication Plan and Project Management Practices..........................................................2
3. Recommendations......................................................................................................................3
4. Justification.................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................4
References......................................................................................................................................5

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Introduction and Background
The report aims in discussing and evaluating the communication plan that is developed for
Public Health Informatics project. The project manager linked with the project needs an advice on the
communication plan that is prepared for the project. Communication plans generally have a large role in
ensuring successful execution of a project. The communication plan identifies the medium for
establishing communication with the stakeholders of the project [2]. The Public Health Informatics
project is a sensitive project, which has full support from the leadership team. The project management
of this project has developed a communication plan in order to ensure that both internal and external
stakeholders are able to communicate effectively with the project team. The developed communication
plan will be examined by the project manager on basis of project mana gement practices in the following
paragraphs.
1. Assessment of the current communication plan
The Public Health Informatics project is related to development of an information system that
will help in better management of the health data. The need of developing and managing an integrated
public health information system identifies the need of development of an effective project team. In
project management, team communication plays a significant role. Communication is a key tool behind
stakeholders’ involvement and engagement in a project [3]. Since this project seeks complete support
from both internal and external stakeholders, development of a sound and effective communication
plan is necessary.
On evaluation of the current communication plan, of the project of improving the county public
health information, it is observed that the stakeholders’ issues, communication and the format of
communication is correctly documented on the developed communication plan [1]. The communication
plan that is prepared clearly indicates the stakeholders’ issues that are needed to be communicated.
Furthermore, the prepared communication pan gives an idea of the communication format that is
needed to be followed by the stakeholders of the project. Thus, it can be said that this communication
plan is capable of managing the stakeholders of the project quite effectively. The main form of
communication is identified to be email, meeting, telephoning and teleconferencing [5]. The
communication plan provides a description of the specific communication format that needs to be
followed by the stakeholders of the project [4]. Thus, on assessing the project communication plan, it