Improving Public Health Informatics: A Communication Plan and Project Management Practice

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Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................................2
Discussion................................................................................................................................................2
Current communication plan:..............................................................................................................2
Communication Plan assessment vs. project management practice....................................................3
Recommendation.................................................................................................................................3
Justification..........................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................4

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Introduction
In this report, the aim is to describe a strategy that will help in improving the public health
informatics. The report will describe the given case in detail and will describe all the details. Further
the report will compare the case study from both the perspective. The report will provide a
recommendation for the proposed plan and justification for the same. This becomes very much
necessary to develop a good system that will provide all the important information’s and will allow
the senior manager to handle all the task quickly and also can respond actively [8]. Thus for
maintaining the database, it becomes very much necessary to have an integrated database. With the
implementation of the new system, the data can be maintained easily and reporting of infectious
disease and the possible outbreaks can be done easily.
Discussion
Current communication plan:
These becomes very much necessary to develop a communication plan that will be followed
by everyone within the team and will also ensure that appropriate communication existed between
all the stakeholders in the project [1]. The key stakeholders and the issues that are needed to be
overcome are:
The communication plan is divided into few subdivision. The working of the client, senior
management, sponsor and employee remains the same. That it provides continuous information
based on the status of the project [7]. The main message that is needed to be delivered within the
team members are related to the project status, about the key milestones and relevant issues
related to the project. The communication methods that can be used for this purpose are email,
conducing meetings, telephoning and teleconferencing. This type of communication plan is highly
detailed and is a formal way of communication. The timing is related to the project schedule. The
communication among the each team members and even with the clients are to be decided with the
help of formal emails of by conducting meeting. The communication plan among these members are
described in detail. The other key stakeholders that are associated with building up a project are
subcontractors, unions, suppliers, government agencies, news media and community [3]. For this
project and communication plan there is no need of subcontractors. The suppliers are also not