Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read the required materials for the week.
This assignment prepares you for the challenge of communicating your proposed ideas for organizational transformation in a clear and brief memorandum to a senior leader. You will also prepare a short reflection and submit both your memorandum and reflection to Waypoint for grading. This assignment will be completed in preparation for the Capstone Final Project in this course. For the memorandum, select the most senior administrative, or medical executive stakeholder, who aligns to a provider or payer organization of your choice. Compose a one-page formal memorandum addressed to this stakeholder.
In your memo,
- Briefly summarize the top three strategic and/or policy-level problems facing this stakeholders’ organization and constituents today.
- Create a proposal that outlines the use of data assets and informatics principles to address these problems.
- Provide organizational opportunities that form a transformation agenda for that organization.
- Describe the data assets, technology platforms, and data standards proposed to address this transformation.
- Evaluate the role of cultural competency and informatics in the transformation.
- Create a graphical representation of a high-level program plan paragraph that summarizes the planned deliverables, resources needed, and high-level timeframes for delivering solutions.
In your one to two page reflection,
- Describe the cultural and social relevance of your stakeholder’s role in the organization.
- Explain how the problems you chose affected your stakeholder selection.
- Rate the risks associated with the plan that you propose.
- Assess the effectiveness of the memorandum as an executive communication tool policy-level problems and issues.
Be sure to support the statements in your reflection with evidence from at least two scholarly sources.
Include both your one-page memorandum and your one- to two-page reflection in a single Word document and submit it to Waypoint for grading.
The Capstone Project Milestone Executive Memo paper
- Must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing CenterLinks to an external site..
- Must include a separate title page with the following:
- Title of paper
- Student’s name
- Course name and number
- Instructor’s name
- Date submitted
- Must use at least two scholarly sources.
- The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
- Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center.
- Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center.
Required Resources
Articles
Alyass, A., Turcotte, M., & Meyre, D. (2015). From big data analysis to personalized medicine for all: Challenges and opportunitiesLinks to an external site. . BMC Medical Genomics, 8 (33), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12920-015-0108-y - The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes personalized medicine on a large scale and challenges therein and will help you with your Personalization of Medicine discussion this week.
Carneiro, B. A., Costa, R., Taxter, T., Chandra, S., Chae, Y. K., Cristofanilli, M., & Giles, F. J. (2016). Is personalized medicine here?Links to an external site. Oncology, 30 (4), 293-308. Retrieved from http://www.cancernetwork.com/oncology-table-of-con...
- The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes the progression of personalized medicine in the oncology specialty and its implication for other specialties. It will help you with your Personalization of Medicine discussion this week.
Dunnenberger, H. M., & Khandekar, J. D. (2016). Value of personalized medicineLinks to an external site.. JAMA , 315 (6), 612-613. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2015.17130
- The full-text version of this article is available through the EBSCOhost database in the UAGC Library. This article describes the benefits of personalized medicine to the industry and will help you with your Personalization of Medicine discussion this week.
Hornberger, J. (2013). Assigning value to medical algorithms: Implications for personalized medicineLinks to an external site. . Personalized Medicine, 10 (6), 577-588. https://doi.org/10.2217/pme.13.55
- The full-text version of this article is available through the ProQuest Central database in the UAGC Library. This article describes how informatics algorithms can be used to add strategic value in organizations and will help you with your Capstone Project Milestone Executive Memo this week.