MITS5001 IT Project Management Project Proposal: Public Health IT

This document presents an IT project proposal focused on improving public health informatics. It details the background and current practices in public health IT systems, emphasizing the importance of data management and information sharing for disease prevention and health promotion. The project aims to enhance healthcare outcomes by providing timely and relevant patient data, with specific objectives including increased healthcare revenue and improved knowledge for healthcare providers. Key stakeholders include patients, employers, healthcare providers, government, and insurance companies. The proposal identifies potential risks such as budget constraints, resource limitations, security breaches, and system failures. Expected outcomes involve data-driven solutions for patient health improvement and cost reduction through strategic data analysis. The document also includes initial cost estimates for the project's development and operation. The project's success relies on effective IT implementation to improve healthcare outcomes and data-driven decision-making.

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Project Proposal: Improving public health informatics
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Table of Contents
PROJECT TITLE:......................................................................................................................2
BACKGROUND AND CURRENT PRACTICE:.....................................................................2
PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:.....................................................................................3
STAKEHOLDERS....................................................................................................................3
INITIAL RISK IDENTIFICATION..........................................................................................5
EXPECTED OUTCOMES........................................................................................................5
INITIAL ESTIMATES OF COSTS...........................................................................................6
SIGNATURE OF PROJECT MANAGER:...............................................................................6
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................7

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PROJECT TITLE:
Improving public health informatics
BACKGROUND AND CURRENT PRACTICE:
The project plan is based on improving public health informatics. The public health IT
system is required to monitor health, evaluate and improve the delivery of the public health
practices. The IT system captures, manages and shares the information as core ability of the
public health informatics. It supports mission of the prevention from diseases and promotion
of health by leveraging the IT solutions. It designs blueprint of complex data systems which
keep the information secured and responsive to user’s requirements [5]. The informatics
converts the raw data into practical information. The public health informatics is improved by
functioning it as translation services for practitioners by data interpretation, turns it into
information and presents that information to practitioners.
The current practice of informatics is used to enable monitoring, supporting the
decision making and improving the population health. It is assured that right IT system is
used in healthcare industry for improving timely delivery of the quality data plus assisting
data driven decisions. It is building bridges among the public health work areas by creating
spaces for the informational pathways. The principle of informatics is to support the
improved public healthcare outcomes [2]. It develops the informatics abilities in various
countries so that the IT system helps to thrive in growing the e-health world. This project
plan will use various on-site diseases centers for gathering data to inform the disease
prevention programs. The information system is combination of both human as well as IT
which can support operations and decision making in the public health system.

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PROJECT AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
The main project aim of the public health informatics is to improve the healthcare
outcomes by providing higher quality and relevant patient’s data in timely way.
Specific
 To increase in revenue of the healthcare by 20% in the monthly recurring revenue in
quarter
 To improve the healthcare knowledge to find solutions for the healthcare providers
Measurable
 To increase in healthcare services by 25% in next two months
Achievable
 To increase in satisfaction of patients by 90%
Relevant
 To respond to the customer’s complaints immediately
Time-framed
 To make improvement in public health informatics in 30 months
START DATE AND COMPLETION DATE:
The start date of the project is 03/15/2019 and end date is 06/14/2019.
STAKEHOLDERS
The main stakeholders in the public health informatics IT system project are patients,
employers, healthcare providers, physicians, and government and insurance companies. The

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other stakeholders are project manager, project sponsor, system developer, financial officer
and system analyst and system tester.
PROJECT BENEFITS
The project benefits of the public health informatics are as follows:
 Better healthcare by making improvement over aspects of the patient’s care
 Improving over security and recording of the information in the healthcare
system [6]
 Better making of clinical decisions by integration of the patient’s information
from various sources
PROJECT TEAM
Role of project team Skills and knowledge Interest
Project Manager Technical and financial High
Project Sponsor Financial High
System Developer Technical Medium
System Analyst Technical High
System Tester Technical Medium
Financial Officer Financial and legal High
Patients Financial Medium
Employers Technical and financial Low
Healthcare providers Technical Medium
Physicians Technical Medium
Government Financial and legal Medium
Insurance companies Financial and legal High

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INITIAL RISK IDENTIFICATION
Following are the risks which are identified such as:
Budget risk: It is possible that the cost for improvement of the public health
informatics is expensive due to which there is high budget of the system that the organization
is not able to afford [1].
Resource risk: The resources those are assigned to the project activities have lack of
knowledge to perform the project work. They have no such technical knowledge to handle
the system. Sometimes, the healthcare organization has lack of project resources to perform
the work [4].
Security risk: In the healthcare organization, it is possible that as the public health
informatics store information related to healthcare records, therefore there is possibility for
loss of data and data stolen which provides effect on reputation of the organization [7].
System risk: The health informatics system may failed due to lack of maintenance and
handling. Therefore, there is failure to diagnose and failure to review the test.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
The expected outcomes of public health informatics are that the system can analyze
healthcare data to help facilitate the decisions as well as actions. It develops data driven
solutions for improvement of the patient’s health. The solutions can reduce expenses
throughout strategic data analysis. It is designed and implemented as healthcare tools for
measuring data and effectiveness of patient’s data plus processes [5]. The staffs and
healthcare providers are also getting technical support to record the data in a system which
minimizes human efforts and errors. In the healthcare organization, the system is mainly
implemented to improve the outcomes of the healthcare so that the patients are getting
benefits. It uses of the information into the healthcare sector for better outcomes.

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INITIAL ESTIMATES OF COSTS
The estimated cost for implementation of public health informatics is $70,110 where
the cost is divided into development cost and operational cost for improvement of the public
health informatics.
Hardware $ 15,000.00
Software $ 950.00
Development team salaries $ 6,160.00
Training $ 2,500.00
Total Development Cost $ 24,610.00
Hardware $ 20,000.00
Software $ 500.00
Operational Labour $ 25,000.00
Total Operational Cost $ 45,500.00
Approximate salary savings $ 70,000.00
Reduced operating cost $ 25,000.00
Total Benefit $ 95,000.00
SIGNATURE OF PROJECT MANAGER:
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