Develop a Collaboration Plan

Executive summary for health informatics project needs assessment

Your Next task after "project charter" will be to develop a Collaboration Plan and present the findings from your CNA in combination with what you have learned in this Module in an executive report. Make sure to specifically address how bringing together IT, clinical, engineering, and business people is critcal to aligning a health industry project with a health solution. Here are is a resource to help with executive summaries.In general, an executive summary begins with lining out your task and the background context in the first paragraph. In this case, it's what you've been assigned to do and probably defining what you will have as a Collaboration Plan.

The second section usually contains your findings. You can use bullets points, a small table, or text. In this case, it would be showcasing the information gathered in your CNA. Executive summaries normally wrap up with a recommendations section. In this case, it would be speaking about what next steps are and how this will affect the project initiation and development phases. In summary, stay to one page total. Cover page items go in the header and citations go in the footer.

The Health Informatics Project Collaborative Needs Assessment is aimed at aiding the project implementers and stakeholders at American Telemedicine Association to collect adequate information necessary for correct implementation of the project. Needs Assessment exercise is a project management tool that is currently well applied to assess the situation in order to make informed decisions prior to project execution (Gamache 2018)

For a successful Collaborative Needs Assessment exercise there is need to ensure all possible questions to asked are well laid out and an effective evaluation method designed for the same (Ishiguro 2017). The questions below depict what CNA will look like.

What is your age?

What is your gender?

What is your training level?  

Computer Experiences

Do you have access to a computer?

How many times do you use a computer in a day?

Have you undergone any kind of trainings on computers?

-What level of expertise do you see yourself as far as usage of computers is concerned?

-Are you always interested to learn how to use new technologies?

-Do you know of any non-computer aspects of health informatics?

-Where do you find medical information?

-What type of a computer do you use?

-A projects workflow model depicts the various tasks that the project deliverables will achieve once it is fully implemented and deployed (Christensen 2018). The workflow diagram plays a major role of always providing solid guidance to the project team, ensuring that all the milestones are achieved at the right time.

Understanding the targeted clientele in project management is key to every successful project implementation. Health Informatics projects seeks to inform the medical staff and patients alike on the various vital information much needed and therefore getting to know how a bigger percentage of the targeted users get access to the proposed tools of information dissemination is paramount.

The most important reasons of developing a health informatics project are to provide innovative technologies that eases health data transmission. This field is currently on an exponential growth due to the rapid improvement of technologies. It’s driving force is the need for continuous information on healthcare not only by the medical students but also by the active practitioners. This research therefore provides ATA, with a concrete base on the modelling and design of the project. This is an important approach, desired by every project implementing organization.

This CNA provides the basis on which the project will be implemented. All the responses will provide the much-needed information to ensure the project implementation phase is taken care of in terms of resources and personnel (Beverly 2021). This Needs assessment seeks to establish the suitability of the Health Informatics project to be implemented in terms of the readily available users. The information further establishes areas of weakness that need to be improved to ensure smooth testing and deployment of the project deliverables (Macy 2019).