Signature Assignment Environment Scanning MGT/498 March 13, 2017 University of Phoenix 1 6 Signature Assignment Environment Scanning The firm that I will be using will be Memorial Hermann hospital here in Houston, Texas. First, I will discuss their external and internal environments. A good company must always be on the lookout for their environments to see potential threats or opportunities. The external are factors that you don’t really control. The object is to control your internal to have a smooth flow of operation. The Hines (2015)One of the largest health systems in Texas, Memorial Hermann has 16 hospitals and home health facilities. There is hardly anywhere you can go and not see one throughout the Greater Houston area. They offer high tech diagnostic treatment care and treatment techniques. They offer share vital patient information with other care providers. Hospital competition in the area called Woodlands here, as other big names in healthcare keep pace to expand their hospitals and hire more staff. Right now, St. Luke’s health and Memorial Hermann, dominate that area. They also are under construction with a budget of 17.4 million dollars for renovations of the emergency department. This area called, the Woodlands, accounts for 18 percent of job growth in that area, which will increase population because of job growth. Employee Benefits. (2017) One thing I can speak on is the competitive benefits Memorial Hermann offers its employees. They offer two medical plans, MH preferred and base, including a catastrophic plan. They have two dental plans, a dental PPD and dental HMO, including a vision plan. They offer an employee assistance program, that helps with financial needs and substance abuse but even marriage counseling. They also offer a 401-retirement plan and will match your contribution dollar for dollar up to 6% of pay. There are career and development programs that reimburse certifications, tuition as well as student loan repayment, short term disability plans which pays up to 60% of basic salary while you are on extended illness. You can receive life insurance, adoption assistance, employee discounts, and the list goes on and on. Not many jobs will offer you all that, plus competitive wages also. The "Implementation Plan" (2013) Memorial Hermann uses an assessment for its implementation. The purpose of the assessment is to gauge the health needs of an area. They take this data from numerous community representatives about public health. There were eight main areas they served. They were found to be eight needs that aligned with the hospital’s overall plan. The identified priorities were the (education and prevention of diseases, address service integration, what are the barriers to primary care, address unhealthy lifestyles, mental healthcare, decrease health disparities, address affordable dental care and providing transportation. The result was providing a plan and implementing a way to carry out the stra.

1. Signature Assignment Environment Scanning
MGT/498
March 13, 2017
University of Phoenix
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Signature Assignment Environment Scanning
The firm that I will be using will be Memorial Hermann hospital
here in Houston, Texas. First, I will discuss their external and
internal environments. A good company must always be on the
lookout for their environments to see potential threats or
opportunities. The external are factors that you don’t really
control. The object is to control your internal to have a smooth
flow of operation.
The Hines (2015)One of the largest health systems in Texas,
Memorial Hermann has 16 hospitals and home health facilities.
There is hardly anywhere you can go and not see one throughout
the Greater Houston area. They offer high tech diagnostic

2. treatment care and treatment techniques. They offer share vital
patient information with other care providers.
Hospital competition in the area called Woodlands here, as
other big names in healthcare keep pace to expand their
hospitals and hire more staff. Right now, St. Luke’s health and
Memorial Hermann, dominate that area. They also are under
construction with a budget of 17.4 million dollars for
renovations of the emergency department. This area called, the
Woodlands, accounts for 18 percent of job growth in that area,
which will increase population because of job growth.
Employee Benefits. (2017) One thing I can speak on is the
competitive benefits Memorial Hermann offers its employees.
They offer two medical plans, MH preferred and base, including
a catastrophic plan. They have two dental plans, a dental PPD
and dental HMO, including a vision plan. They offer an
employee assistance program, that helps with financial needs
and substance abuse but even marriage counseling. They also
offer a 401-retirement plan and will match your contribution
dollar for dollar up to 6% of pay.
There are career and development programs that reimburse
certifications, tuition as well as student loan repayment, short
term disability plans which pays up to 60% of basic salary while
you are on extended illness. You can receive life insurance,
adoption assistance, employee discounts, and the list goes on
and on. Not many jobs will offer you all that, plus competitive
wages also.
The "Implementation Plan" (2013) Memorial Hermann uses an
assessment for its implementation. The purpose of the
assessment is to gauge the health needs of an area. They take
this data from numerous community representatives about
public health. There were eight main areas they served. They
were found to be eight needs that aligned with the hospital’s
overall plan. The identified priorities were the (education and
prevention of diseases, address service integration, what are the
barriers to primary care, address unhealthy lifestyles, mental
healthcare, decrease health disparities, address affordable dental

3. care and providing transportation. The result was providing a
plan and implementing a way to carry out the strategic plan
address various issues with health care.
They established baseline metrics in 2013, leveling to a 5%
increase participation of programs by 2014. Most of
implementation activities began with baseline metrics and then
after two years the results are reported. They developed metrics
for quantifying reductions of patients in 2013/ 2014 and the
metrics were reported in 2014, 2015). They used the Stanford
Patient Model for addressing diabetes in patients. In the
program, they conduct an assessment to determine community
willingness to get involved, and try to identify individuals who
are licensed to provide workshops.
The first thing in the formulation process is addressing the most
important issues which is chronic diseases and conditions. Per
the data, there were high rates of various diseases in the area
that was accessed. Heart disease and cancer accounts for 96.8 of
discharges. Also, behavioral Alzheimer’s morality rates state
that diabetes is prevalent is Houston-Baytown-Sugar Land area.
The response was Memorial Hermann used education of these
diseases and chronic conditions, using community programs,
support groups and health education publication. Using the
programs will provide the area population with information. Its
purpose is also to influence a healthier lifestyle for individuals
to prevent disability or premature death.
We recently in my department have started this program called
BYOD, which allows our home health nurses to call our diabetic
patients and offer service over the phone with issues they may
be having. If the patient or caregiver has a smart phone, we can
enroll them right over the phone and send them a link to
monitor them. This help prevention of some many trips to the
emergency room. There are so many patients who are charged
some much for medical help because they don’t know the proper
way to see the signs of physical distress before something
happens.
Memorial Hermann is also currently tackling issues about

4. information sharing with other medical facilities and the needs
of home health patients. Lack of record sharing is a concern for
the Memorial Herman Information Exchange (MHIE) program,
which takes patient records so they can be accessed to
authorized caregivers.
I researched the many ways Memorial Hermann evaluates the
effectiveness of their guidelines and they are recognized as a
national leader in quality and safety. They are exceeding the
standards and even measure safety and have indicators in place
that above standards. The benchmark of their performance is put
up against the performance of other hospitals across the United
States. By using process and outcome data, they can track data
that shows how reliable they are. Ongoing quality service drives
patient satisfactory service. They are committed to deliver the
best care here in Houston.
It is a constant mission to improve upon the already great
service by finding critical new inventive ways to protect
patients. To be an employee, you must forgo extensive training
in ways to that help improve enhancing safety.
The "Awards & Recognition" (2017) In 2009, they received the
National Quality Healthcare Award proving the top-quality
healthcare on a national level.
National Health System Patient Safety Leadership Award
recognizing their efforts in quantitative safety results and
relentless improvement.
Eisenberg Patient Safety Award in 2012 recognizing the
leadership proving once again that the measurements they are
using as a benchmark for excellence is indeed working.
U.S News reported that Memorial Hermann was No.1 in rehab
in Texas and No. 2 in the U. S. The achievements go on and on.
The business metrics, data gathering, and benchmarks have paid
off, with results such as these. It’s this type of dedication that
sets Memorial Hermann way above the rest.
Awards & Recognition. (2017). Retrieved from

5. http://www.memorialhermann.org
Employee Benefits. (2017). Retrieved from
http://www.memorialhermann.org
Implementation Plan. (2013). Retrieved from
http://www.memorialhermann.org Hines,
L. (2015). Expansions increase Hospital Competition. Retrieved
from http://www.houstonchronicle.com
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Running Head: Standards and recommnedations of data recovery
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Standards and recommnedations of data recovery 6
Standards and Recommendation of Data Recovery
Karun Kumar Sunkara
Wilmington University

6. In the present generation many industries are dependent on data.
Database plays a key role in the growth of the company,
industries related to telecom, finance and banking should
maintain and update the database on regular basis. Data was
stored in a hard drive initially to some extent but due to the
advanced technology storage technology helps to deploy lot of
scenarios. As data has been the most important part of the
industry what would be the case if the company lost the data by
any kind of incident such as data corruption, hacking, hard
drive failure. Many cases the data cannot be recovered in the
olden days, in some special cases experts retrieve the data
which was almost destroyed. If the data was stored on hard
drive, USB, RAID you can retrieve the data by asking some
professional to perform data recovery and so they can retrieve
the data which is completely lost. But in some cases the system
also gets corrupted and it’s hard to retrieve the data even after
the data recovery plan (Albright, 2014).
Standard Methods of Data Recovery
Data can be recovered by having a backup. The type of backup
is selected depending upon the frequency and the size of
storage. There are different types of backups Let us discuss the
most standard backups that are used by small-medium based
companies.
Redundancy Array Interactive Devices (RAID)
It is used as back up in the recent time it can be used as mask
for disk drives and controller failures. It will also help in
increasing the performance of the data, without shutting the
system it can swap the disk drive but it cannot replace the disk
drive as it is not suggestible in the offshore, since there is no
way that it works as protection during the floods or fire (NIST,
2002).
Differential Method:
This method takes less time to complete and it will also stores
the data created or modified up to the last full backup. This has
been the most used methods in the medium size industries. But

7. the main lagging thing is that it takes longer because the amount
of data modified from the last full backup to next full backup is
more. The best part is it takes less storage units when compared
to other methods (NIST, 2002).
Incremental Method:
This particular method will take the data that was modifies or
created from the last back up to now. This method is considered
as the most advantageous but the problem if it takes too long for
restoration. The efficiency of this method is high when
compared to any other method (NIST, 2002).
Disk Replication:
Disk replication is nothing but the data is created and updated
on two disks. This way data is available on both the disks and
both disks are protected. This is a simple method used by many
small0medium based companies but the cost might be high as
you need more infrastructures (NIST, 2002).
By having many back up plans still experts are failing to
retrieve the data sometimes and they couldn’t protect the data
which is very useful for the future reference of the company.
Still they are many issued faced by big organizations due to
lack of the protection for the data and lack of better
infrastructure to the company. Small organization like schools
and colleges are facing the issues with backing the data and
protecting it. Let explain about it by considering an example
(Mah, 2013).
Recommendations:
City University of New York is a big organization serves many
students which runs all the year by educating many students on
various courses. Since every student’s information need to be
created and updated during or later the admission they need to
back up the data. They are following the standard methods to
back up the data but some of the main recommendations are
discussed below.
Periodic Data Backups:
All the units must be backed up periodically by filly this. The
data created and modified should be backed up from period to

8. period this way if they lose the original data they can back up
the data. And they should also make sure each unit is stored in
that particular department it belongs to. All the data should be
updated for example student admission, registration, fee
records, billing. There are many software’s which would update
and back up the data so use of the right software is must which
is suitable to the university (Varun, 2010).
Proactive Loss Prevention:
The right infrastructure is needed to back up the data and
protect it so CUNY units should ensure that they should have at
least the basic infrastructure such as RAID storage, UPS backup
and redundant power, which are considered as the most
commonly used backup methods in the market in the present
days. If the data is lost it is a huge loss to the organization so
before it lost it is suggested to be proactive by having the right
infrastructure which is recommended. They should also make
sure that future admins of the data storage would also follow the
equipped infrastructure that is recommended. The university
should be proactive as it is running many online facilities in
order to maintain the facilities it should follow the
recommendations (varun, 2010).
Risk Analysis and Disaster Recovery Planning:
Risk analysis is to be done before the threat occurs for example
if a threat occurs the CUNY units should come up with an
immediate plan to solve the issue within span of time this
analysis are called risk analysis. They should work with IT and
network team and should have plan to go against the issues and
try to accomplish the task. It is recommended that outside
consulting companies and the IT team of CUNY should discuss
and should have effective plans for coming years (Varun, 2010).
Conclusion
After understanding the important of the data recovery it is
suggested to follow the recommendations suggested by CUNY
team. RAID and UPS backup are the common software used for
the data backups. There are many backups software’s but each
of them has their own advantages and disadvantages companies

9. choose which a better match for them is. Proactive loss
prevention is nothing but taking steps before not to lose the data
and take necessary steps to maintain and backup the data.
References
Albright, D. (2014, August 17). What is data recovery and how
does it work. Retrieved on March 08, 2017, from
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/data-recovery-work/
Mah, P. (2013, September 18). How to overcome small business
data recovery challenges. Retrieved on March 08, 2017, from
http://www.cio.com/article/2382418/small-business/how-to-
overcome-small-business-data-recovery-challenges.html
Martin, B. (2002). SANS Institute InfoSec Reading Room.
Disaster recovery plan strategies and processes, 1-3. Retrieved
on March 08, 2017, from https://www.sans.org/reading-
room/whitepapers/recovery/disaster-recovery-plan-strategies-
processes-564
NIST. (2002). Techniques for system and data recovery. ITL
Bulletin, 2-4. Retrieved on March 08, 2017, from
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/04-02.pdf
Varun, S. (2010). Business continuity and disaster recovery, 1-
13. Retrieved on March 08, 2017, from
https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/CIS/security
/pnp/CUNY-IT-DR-AdoptedRecommendations-9-16-10.pdf.