Trends in Informatics Case Study[WLOs: 1, 3, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 5]Prior to beginning work on this assignment review Chapters 29, 33, and 36 of Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach.Formulate a paper addressing trends in health informatics using the address the following prompts:Discuss the benefits and challenges of simulation technology as a technology trend.Given future directional trends in informatics discussed in Chapter 36 of your text such as nanotechnology, predictive analytics, and the Internet of Things (IoT), select a trend that you view to be most important to our society today. Provide a rationale for your choice.Analyze the Health Information Technology Governence Activities and Processes summery discussed in Chapter 29 of your text (Box 29.1). Reflecting on your Ashford University major of study, discuss how an organizational leader in health care and/or health and human services would use these activities to prioritize informatics projects related to implementing an informatics trend discussed in Chapter 36.The Trends in Informatics PaperMust be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (Links to an external site.)’s APA Style (Links to an external site.)Must include a separate title page with the following:Title of paper including the chapter number and case study titleStudent’s nameCourse name and numberInstructor’s nameDate submittedFor further assistance with the formatting and the title page, refer to APA Formatting for Word 2013 (Links to an external site.).Must utilize academic voice. See the Academic Voice (Links to an external site.) resource for additional guidance.Must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions (Links to an external site.) as well as Writing a Thesis Statement (Links to an external site.), refer to the Ashford Writing Center resources.Must use at least two scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text.The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links 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.To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, view this Ashford University Library Quick ‘n’ Dirty (Links to an external site.) tutorial, which introduces the Ashford University Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.Must document any information used from sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center’s Citing Within Your Paper (Links to an external site.)Must include a separate reference page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. See the Formatting Your References List (Links to an external site.) resource in the Ashford Writing Final Project

Outside Reading AssignmentThe history of psychology is built upon understanding the work of particular individuals throughout history. Your textbook mentions several major and minor contributors to the understanding of psychology's history. However, the textbook is one interpretation of the writings and thoughts of these historical figures. To have a better understanding of those thoughts, you need to read samples of the original works.For this assignment, you will research something that has been written by an individual from the time period(s) being studied (choose a name from the textbook readings) this week.The work must be something written by the chosen person, but need only be a sample of the chosen historical work and involve only a few pages of writing. Make sure the writing deals with the topics being covered this week.There are several sources to use to obtain the works; the best place to start is to search for the person's name on the Internet using Google but you can only utilize this to find information about the person. Use an original historical work by an author of your choice, but keep in mind that you should use peer-reviewed, academic sources for the analysis of this work. You can most easily find these in the South University Online Library.You can use the textbook to support your work, but do not use it as the primary source. This is an outside reading assignment.After reading the material, answer these questions:What were the main points of the writing?What were the differences and similarities between what you read and what was written about the individual in the textbook?Based on your own views of psychology, how does the author's viewpoint fit into your current understanding of psychology?

Instructions: Please refer to the Discussion Grading Rubric before starting the assignment. Read the Case Scenario and answer the three questions that follow.  Be careful to address each question posed. Include APA formatted in-text citations and a reference list. (In this class, all applicable citations should contain the page or paragraph numbers. The only exceptions are videos or podcasts.) Use the lettering system indicated below to post your answers. Your answers should be listed in sections labeled "A" through "C." Michael Porter --- An Icon of Competitive Strategy and Competitive Advantage Every business student would be well served by becoming conversant with Porter's models. Michael E. Porter was (and may still hold the distinction) of being the youngest professor to receive tenure in Harvard University's history. He has been on the Harvard Business School faculty since 1973. It would not be easy to find an academic article, book, or textbook dealing with competitive strategy and competitive advantage written in the past 50 years that does not mention the impact of Porter's theories. In Competitive Strategy (1980), as you learned in week 2, Porter identifies five industry forces that managers must consider in developing market strategies. The five forces Porter's model identifies are: (1) the threat of new entrants into the market, (2) the bargaining power of customers in the industry, (3) the bargaining power of suppliers in the industry, (4) the threat of substitute products or services entering the market, and (5) the price competition or other forms of rivalry among existing firms in the market. The application of the five forces model recurs throughout the course.  Porter pursues the theme of global competition in his 1985 book, Competitive Advantage, where he notes that companies must select a strategy of cost leadership (e.g., Costco), which is contingent upon a large market share, or a strategy of differentiation (e.g., Nordstrom), which pursues a smaller market share but has an exclusivity advantage.  It is this part of Porter's work we will focus on this week.  Porter's books rank among the best-selling business books.    Porter, E. M. (1980). Competitive strategy:  Techniques for analyzing industries and competitors.  Free Press. Porter, E. M. (1985). Competitive advantage: Creating and sustaining superior performance.  Free Press. Case Scenario:  Smithfield Custom Furniture: Smithfield Custom Furniture has done extremely well since its founding in 1903.  Smithfield has focused on selling reasonably priced furniture since its inception. Now 2001, the company has been headed by the founder's granddaughter,  Joan Smithfield (CEO). She has run the company for the past twenty years. Today, the company has 247 retail stores. 220 stores are spread throughout the 50 states, and 27 stores are located in England, France, and Germany. Each country has 9 stores. The company employs 13,000 people. For the past 20 years, Joan Smithfield has been aware of the financial growth in a large workforce segment, primarily due to more women in the workforce holding full-time and professional occupations. She knows, too, that the reasonably priced furniture market has become saturated with other competitors during this time.   The company does all its manufacturing in the United States at six facilities, which recently were modernized with the latest equipment.  Although recently modernized, Smithfield's production plants are not producing at maximum capacity. Joan realizes the plants could produce more and different types of furniture. The Board of Directors is pressuring Joan to diversify Smithfield's product line. Everyone on the board, including Joan, agrees diversification is needed. Everyone agrees, too, a new line of furniture needs to be added. However, the 12-member Board of Directors is evenly divided on whether the new line of furniture should be 1) massed produced, mass-marketed, and sold at the lowest price point possible or 2) whether the new line of furniture should be a very upscale line of furniture, custom-crafted and produced from the most expensive and exotic woods, exclusively marketed to the top 7.5% of world-wide income earners. The Smithfield plants have the capacity and capability to develop and produce either but not both lines of new furniture.    Joan Smithfield has been a longtime admirer of Michael Porter. She met Porter a few times over the years at various seminars and business functions.    Your Task for Your Initial Post:  In your role as a senior strategy analyst at Smithfield Custom Furniture, CEO Joan Smithfield has requested you to provide to her a memorandum that addresses A-C below.   A. Explain, using the link provided to Porter's Competitive Advantage Model, how Porter's Competitive Advantage model applies to the Smithfield's Board of Directors' issue of deciding to produce a very exclusive furniture line or a mass-produced, mass-marketed furniture product line. Use in-text citations as appropriate.  https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-principlesofmanagement/chapter/stages-and-types-of-strategy/ B. Select the best strategy for the Smithfield company to pursue from the two strategies Porter presents in his model and explain why that particular strategy is better than the alternative.    C. Using this week's course readings, assuming Joan Smithfield accepts your recommendation, what is the next action she should take to determine if your recommendation is correct?