Eliott, nice to "virtually" meet you. As Blake mentioned we have know each other for many years while both working in the Atlanta market. We have shared involvement and support of industry associations as well as supported each other by providing leads and introductions for opportunities to collaborate and work together. I don't need to tell you how lucky TVTY is to have Blake on your team. I have spent more than 15 years in a Business Development role primarily in the digital marketing and…
While executing public health research and practice, the community health takes precedence over individual health (Walley & Wright, 2010) and there is also a need to balance the protection of individual health information with the need to protect public health (DHHS, 2003), this has led to the establishment of the Privacy Rule, which permits disclosures without individual authorization to public health authorities authorized by law to collect or receive the information for the purpose of…
Public and Private Healthcare According to Institute of Medicine (IOM), healthcare costs and quality issues have risen in the last ten years (Linsley, & Morton, 2014). Healthcare is provided through both public and private health agencies. Public healthcare agencies are provided by the government such as Medicaid. Private healthcare agencies are non-government providers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS). Both agencies have set rules of addressing cost and quality of care to the community.…
Corporations make up a small a small part of the companies, but are associated with businesses that are powerful. A corporation has a “face,” which is the company. This is where the public relations ties into corporations. Every corporation has products, a logo, and a brand that are visible in advertising to the public. The public’s perceptions of greed and corporate misdeeds are reinforced by stories in the media and activists. Corporations care about what their consumers think of them. It is…
Breaking the bargain, Donald Savoie explores the bargain between public servants, ministers, and parliament as they make up the administrative and political parts of Canadian governance. To be more precise, Savoie examines the “territory” between permanent and elected officials in bureaucracy and democracy within Canada (2003, p. 3). In terms of his thesis, Savoie’s central thesis is “the traditional bargain between politicians and public servants is coming unglued, and the space that was once…
Upon stating the public health issue, the key elements of the public health issue, and the goals that are hoped to be achieved, further thought out strategies led to the question- How to improve the testing procedure already in place for Zika? Two public health approaches were concluded to possibly function as a solution: Change Implementation and Management and Performance Improvement Systems. Change Implementation and Management relates directly to a purely public health change implementation…
expectancy, disease incidence, and behavioral and physiological factors. Population health management requires the distribution of health care services in the defined population to be grounded on health condition and need (Block, 2014). Deliver Healthcare with a Focus Healthcare organizations should deliver healthcare with a focus on population health because it allows for better health outcomes, care management, and emphasizes on the specific population. A population health approach…
into structured data. Stage II, which began in 2013, involves the exchange of data between systems. The reporting of clinical quality measures and public health information was now being sent to the designated governmental agencies and registries. Stage III begins in 2015 and is about using the acquired knowledge to improve population health and public health, and to reduce disparities of quality healthcare. Large organizations that were quick to adopt EHR technology have shown the benefits…
ownership. In other words change the ownership from public to private. Privatization is happening all over the U.S., for instance, Republicans want to replace the IRS agents with private debt collection agencies, New Jersey wants to privatize the public water system and 911 services, Florida would like the public transportation to be privatized, and finally Wisconsin would like to privatize all public education. What is being privatized in the public school system?…
PROFESSIONALS? 2.1 THE PROFILE OF PR PROFESSIONALS Australian public relations industry has too few informations. According to ABS (2009), it claimed Public Relations Professionals are 14,600 in Australia, and 20% of them had registered in the PRIA. Australia Government has a research post on Job Outlook, and it exhaustively describe the current profile of Public Relations Professionals in Australia. One of the most interesting point is that 72.3% of Public Relations Professionals are female.…