“Three key components of the strategic IT plan”

• When planning for implementation of a health IT system or change, what are three (3) key components of the strategic IT plan?
• What are the roles of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Information Officer (CIO), and data analyst?
• How does the health care administrator budget for IT projects?
• What factors should be considered during the budgeting process?
• How should resources be allocated to support the project?
• How would the health care administrator collaborate with the CFO to properly fund the project?

World culture discussion

Each week you will be given three or four questions pertaining to important topics covered in the materials provided in the question itself, the textbook, the lectures, the other materials provided, and my comments in my Live Session. You choose the one you like and post a response of 125 words or more. You also need to respond to another post from one of your fellow students. This second post should be at least 60 or so words long and should not just agree with or repeat what has been said.

Please use an example that has not already been used in the discussion

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• Describe two (2) examples of how either black slaves or white abolitionists used literature or the visual arts as a form of protest against slavery. Compare this to a modern example of art used for social protest.
• Describe the key motives involved in the increased presence of Westerners in India, China, and Japan in the 1700s and 1800s. Identify the key factors that led to Britain’s successful imposition of its presence and trade policies on China, despite communications like those from Emperor Ch’ien-lung (i.e., Qianlong) and Commissioner Lin Zexu (i.e., Lin Tse-hsu). Argue for or against the British policies regarding China in the 1800s, using analogies from our own modern times.
• Read, listen to, and watch the sources for the opera composers at the websites below and in this week’s Music Folder. Describe the major influences that Verdi, Wagner, or Puccini exerted upon opera in terms of making it more innovative, realistic, and even controversial. Next, consider Wagner and this dilemma: Wagner’s brilliance is clear because his works remain some of the most popular and admired productions in our own time. Yet, he was blatantly anti-Semitic and held notions of racial purity, traits that have stained his artistic legacy. (This was compounded by the later celebration of Wagner’s music by Hitler and the Nazis.) The New York Times writer Anthony Tommasini wrote of Wagner in 2005: “How did such sublime music come from such a warped man? Maybe art really does have the power to ferret out the best in us.” So, consider the issue of whether we should or can separate the artist from the art, whether we can appreciate the art but reject the artist, or whether we should reject both the person and his or her art. Identify one (1) modern musician or artist where this dilemma arises.
  • Talk Like An Opera Geek: How Verdi, Wagner and Puccini Got Their Grooves.
  • Video clip of a production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, End of Act 3.
  • Video clip of a production of Verdi’s Rigoletto (scroll to the bottom) and a clip from the 1987 film.
  • Video clip of Puccini’s Tosca.
• The Revolutions of 1848 swept through almost every country in Europe. In that same year, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels published one of the most important works in moden history, The Communist Manifesto. Less than 20 years later, the United States would plunge into 4 years of civil war that many Europeans saw as just another revolution like theirs. Compare the causes of the European revolutions of 1848 with the causes of the Civil War. List three ways they are different or similar.