Response one PHM-08 One observation that I have noticed in creating my final project is that I should have also added another recommendation to it. A suggestion was made by one of my peers regarding my project on electronic medical records and quality improvement. The suggestion was: ensuring that medical providers utilize the resources necessary to give to patients to ensure they are taking the right steps toward a healthy or healthier lifestyle. The examples that were given include Healthy People 2020 and any other health promotion program implemented to improve particular health issues within the respective community. In creating the strategies and recommendations, my process was typing key words on the SNHU Shapiro Library EBSCO database and found the articles that were relevant to the project. The key words were mostly the critical elements found in the directions for the respective milestones that I have done so far. I also looked over the milestones/reflection journals by taking some of the words for emphasis and summarization. I referred to the scenario instructions every now and then to remind myself again on what is required of me to do. One challenge that I encountered during the course of my research was finding the right articles that best support the critical elements. I solved this problem by adding (or taking away) certain phrases from the search engine so that I could go more in-depth (or, in some cases, focus on the main element in question). To make sure that the recommendations that I made were supported by the analysis, I went back to the Milestone Two assignment as well as the reflection journal for Module One by summarizing the key points, and then added new scholarly information related to the recommendations. It was an overall balance between going back to past assignments/scenario instructions and researching fresh, new information. I feel that my analysis was not taking a back seat to my factual overview. I have done my overview in a straightforward manner and I have done my analysis in a separate paper, which was also in a coherent, effective way. I knew what I had to do. I have done the overview and analysis in two milestones as required. Response two-PHM-08 For the final projects, I must admit that Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) is not an area where I have any professional experience, and with my career interests, I don’t think this is a field of work I would strive towards. However, I know that EMRs are important to public health, which is my degree program, such as in the realm of surveillance (Shi and Johnson, 2014). I found my comfort level to be a challenged in trying to provide an analysis and formulate strategies and recommendations, but at the same time, I know I am growing my knowledge in an important emerging focus of healthcare today. Aside from our textbook, I used Google Scholar to try to obtain further information, and have used resources from the CDC as well. I feel I have learned a lot more by ...

1. Response one PHM-08
One observation that I have noticed in creating my final project
is that I should have also added another recommendation to it.
A suggestion was made by one of my peers regarding my
project on electronic medical records and quality improvement.
The suggestion was: ensuring that medical providers utilize the
resources necessary to give to patients to ensure they are taking
the right steps toward a healthy or healthier lifestyle. The
examples that were given include Healthy People 2020 and any
other health promotion program implemented to improve
particular health issues within the respective community. In
creating the strategies and recommendations, my process was
typing key words on the SNHU Shapiro Library EBSCO
database and found the articles that were relevant to the project.
The key words were mostly the critical elements found in the
directions for the respective milestones that I have done so far.
I also looked over the milestones/reflection journals by taking
some of the words for emphasis and summarization. I referred
to the scenario instructions every now and then to remind
myself again on what is required of me to do.
One challenge that I encountered during the course of my
research was finding the right articles that best support the
critical elements. I solved this problem by adding (or taking
away) certain phrases from the search engine so that I could go
more in-depth (or, in some cases, focus on the main element in
question). To make sure that the recommendations that I made
were supported by the analysis, I went back to the Milestone
Two assignment as well as the reflection journal for Module
One by summarizing the key points, and then added new
scholarly information related to the recommendations. It was an
overall balance between going back to past
assignments/scenario instructions and researching fresh, new
information. I feel that my analysis was not taking a back seat
to my factual overview. I have done my overview in a

2. straightforward manner and I have done my analysis in a
separate paper, which was also in a coherent, effective way. I
knew what I had to do. I have done the overview and analysis in
two milestones as required.
Response two-PHM-08
For the final projects, I must admit that Electronic Medical
Records (EMRs) is not an area where I have any professional
experience, and with my career interests, I don’t think this is a
field of work I would strive towards. However, I know that
EMRs are important to public health, which is my degree
program, such as in the realm of surveillance (Shi and Johnson,
2014). I found my comfort level to be a challenged in trying to
provide an analysis and formulate strategies and
recommendations, but at the same time, I know I am growing
my knowledge in an important emerging focus of healthcare
today. Aside from our textbook, I used Google Scholar to try to
obtain further information, and have used resources from the
CDC as well. I feel I have learned a lot more by reviewing other
discussion posts from my peers in this course, and our professor
has been terrific in her timely feedback on assignments, which
is always helpful. As I work on the final assignments for this
course, I want to try to evolve even more beyond just the facts
of the case, trying to connect all elements together. Lastly, I
will try to present the information from a balanced yet
persuasive manner in my efforts to entice positive change for
my scenario.
Reference
Shi, L., & Johnson, J. A. (Eds.). (2014). Public health
administration: Principles for population-based management
(3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Response Three-PHM-08
For my final project one observation that I used to create the
strategies and recommendations was that I went back and
reviewed the chapters associated with strategic planning. From
their I decided to also go back and review all my notes and the
recommendations from my fellow classmates who have giving

3. me throughout the course for me to come up with a strategic
plan for my chosen topic. One of the challenges that I encounter
was that I was trying to come up with a strategic plan to decode
if I needed to add more physicians to help decrease the
emergency room or will adding a whole new clinic which would
include an ambulatory surgery center will help to serve the
community better. There was also the recommendation to
convert from paper based medical records over to electronic
health records which would be a smart idea since there are extra
benefits in having an electronic health records.
Going back to the first scenario I decided that purchasing a new
clinic as adding all the mentioned above services under one roof
can help alleviate all the issues with having to budget and staff
several clinics. Instead the cost associate with having one
building in time will pay for itself. One way that I was able to
resolve the challenges was that with the revenue coming in from
Medical and Medicaid because of the electronic medical records
that could be put back into also hiring more physicians to
decrease cost for patients who use the emergency room as their
own physician’s office. The steps I took to support my analysis
was that I used scholarly google to find other articles on similar
situations that other organizations may have faced and used
their recommendations, as well as, my own to justify the
analysis. I think that my analysis was not taken a back seat to
my factual overview since all the information will be presented
to the best of my knowledge.
Shi, L., & Johnson, J. A. (Eds.). (2014). Public health
administration: Principles for population-based management
(3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning.