Week 8 Project Management Plan

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Explain Healthcare Project Requirements Gathering Techniques

DHA-7010 - Project and Resource Management in Integrated Systems

3/22/20

COMMENTS: Good job, Maria. You explained the requirement techniques necessary to get your project up-and-running very nicely. You’ll find from my feedback below, there are a few very minor issues here-and-there. Also, you are still blocking your text; instead it needs to be left-justified throughout (even on the References page). Otherwise, good work!! As always, when you open this document, make sure you go to the toolbar at the top of your screen and click the ‘Review’ link. From there, go to the right, click the dropdown, then click ‘All Markup’ to view all of my feedback (including any Track Changes, highlighted in-text comments, and ‘Comments’ bubbles located in the right-hand margin of the document).

Explain Healthcare Project Requirements Gathering Techniques

Health docket in the United States has been one of the most active sectors over the past decade. However, the State of Florida has been identified as one of the most affected regions. The rise of chronic conditions has been rising due to the increase in the aging population. Therefore, to reduce the number of people having chronic diseases, there is a need to implement appropriate health monitoring systems to help in reducing the effect of chronic conditions in the United States, especially in the State of Florida (Chapel, Ritchey, Zhang, & Wang, 2017). To achieve the goals of this project, information for stakeholders such as patients, healthcare professionals, and Health Ministry will be necessary.

Project Requirements

The project seeks to find possible ways of reducing chronic conditions in the State of Florida. As such, it is vital to learn about stakeholders' needs to help in achieving the goal of the project. The key stakeholders in this project are patients. They require to know various ways to avoid chronic conditions. This should be through mass education to teach them how engaging in physical activities can reduce chronic diseases among the old age (Chapel et al. , 2017). Patients are profoundly affected by chronic conditions since most of them end losing their lives due to a lack of reliable information on how to handle chronic condition cases.

Health professionals are another group of stakeholders require proper training and information about how to address chronic condition whenever they are reported to them. As well, they need research updates on new ways of treating chronic diseases among the affected group (Dinh et al., 2016). Chronic problems affect health professionals indirectly through failing to contain chronic illness affecting their clients.

The Ministry of Health forms another essential stakeholder in this project. The role of the department is to give proper guidelines to healthcare professionals on how to handle chronic conditions. In doing so, the docket requires financial facilitation from the federal government to use in the procurement of drugs, training materials, and facilitating training programs of healthcare professionals (Reiners et al., 2019).

Project Planning

Project planning is one of the essential processes in this study. As well, requirements gathering is an important activity that will help in achieving the goals of the project. To collect the required information, the three groups of stakeholders will be engaged through face-to-face interviews, questionnaires, and discussion to understand their take and efforts in the fight to reduce chronic conditions in the State of Florida (Reiners et al., 2019).

Project Initiation

The introduction of the project is the first process conducted to achieve the goals of a project. In this study, the project will begin by identifying patients' requirements on how to reduce cases of chronic conditions in the State of Florida. The latter will be achieved by engaging patients to collect their opinion to help in coming up with appropriate strategies for reducing chronic cases among members of the public (Rush et al., 2018).

Health professionals will be in charge of collecting such information to obtain resources that can be used to execute activities of the project. On the other hand, health professionals will be trained to equip them with knowledge and skills that can enable then to attend to patients with chronic conditions (Rush et al., 2018). Health professionals like nurses; therefore, form a significant part of stakeholders in this study.

Project Evaluation

Evaluation is usually the final process in a project. It involves assessing the achievements of all activities and determine whether the intended goals were accomplished. In this study, an evaluation will include the likeliness of achieving the purposes of the project and whether the project should be executed as planned (Walker et al., 2019). As such, the goals of this project will be evaluated when the ministry of health will be able to receive enough financial support from the government to facilitate training and benchmarking of healthcare professionals to enable them to offer quality service to chronic condition patients.

Secondly, the success of the project will be assessed for patients who will be able to strictly follow health care professional guidelines on how to reduce the risk of chronic conditions. In this case, the quality and coverage of mass education and sensitization will be valued.

Furthermore, the timeline of the project will be evaluated by assessing if it is possible to achieve the goals of all activities within the timeframe allocated. However, this will majorly depend on the government's ability to allocate enough financial resources in time to help in executing all activities as planned (Walker et al., 2019). Finally, since the primary goal of this project was to find ways of reducing chronic conditions in the State of Florida, the success will depend on government allocation of funds to facilitate the project.

References

Chapel, J. M., Ritchey, M. D., Zhang, D., & Wang, G. (2017). Prevalence and medical costs of chronic diseases among adult Medicaid beneficiaries. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 53(6), S143-S154.

Dinh, T. T. H., Bonner, A., Clark, R., Ramsbotham, J., & Hines, S. (2016). The effectiveness of the teach-back method on adherence and self-management in health education for people with chronic disease: a systematic review. JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 14(1), 210-247.

Reiners, F., Sturm, J., Bouw, L. J., & Wouters, E. J. (2019). Sociodemographic factors are influencing the use of eHealth in people with chronic diseases. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(4), 645.

Rush, K. L., Hatt, L., Janke, R., Burton, L., Ferrier, M., & Tetrault, M. (2018). The efficacy of telehealth delivered educational approaches for patients with chronic diseases: A Systematic Review. Patient Education and Counselling, 101(8), 1310-1321.

Walker, R. C., Tong, A., Howard, K., & Palmer, S. C. (2019). Patient expectations and experiences of remote monitoring for chronic diseases: Systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 124, 78-85.

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