In this exercise, you will write a two-page professional style letter to your state or federal representative about a current health care issue being discussed in the United States. View Healthy People 2020 - Topic Areas at a Glance on the CDC website. You will select a topic from the list provided. Step 1: Identify One of Your Representatives For representatives at the national level, you can find the name and address of the legislators that represent you at the following: U.S. House of Representatives. U.S. Senate. To identify the names and contact information of state and local representatives, visit Common Cause and put in your address.   Step 2: Research Where Your Representative Stands After choosing your topic and representative, research where your representative stands on your chosen health care issue as well as where the medical profession (professional organizations, practicing medical professionals, patients, and other advocates) stands on the issue.   Use GovTrack.us to look for your chosen representative and do some digging on their position on the topic.   To research where the medical profession stands, you may want to look at the following websites in addition to searching the Strayer Library for publications from specific medical professional groups on the topic.  HHS.gov. Healthy People 2020 - Topic Areas at a Glance. World Health Organization. Step 3: Write the Letter Once you have identified both your topic from Healthy People 2020 and the representative you will write your letter. Keep in mind this is a business letter and will require specific formatting. You will need to be sure you have the name, date, and address of the representative at the top of the page and include your name and address at the close.   Take a look a look at some of these sample letters for reference:   Write a Letter to Your Legislator. Sample Letter to Legislator. Template Letter to a Legislator [PDF] Sample Letter to Legislators Issue: Nurse Workforce Development Programs (Title VIII). In the contents of your letter, please include the following:  Identify a health care issue that is currently being discussed at the state or national level.  Summarize your representative's position on your selected health care issue.   Explain why you agree or disagree with your representative’s position.  Include data and evidence to align your position from the CDC’s Healthy People 2020 – Topic Areas at a Glance and/or other government agencies. 

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid are beginning to penalize hospitals who have patients readmitted in a certain time period (Readmission Reduction Program). Your Supervisor has come to you as to a manager of Quality Improvement and asked you how your hospital can better understand your readmission rates. Write a descriptive analysis plan outline based on PDCA process description that can offer insight in the organization readmission rates matter. Another example (exploratory) is P.E.R.I.E. approach used in the Public Health industry.Think about the factors that are important for the Provider, the patient and the payor (Medicare in this case). Make sure to list the epidemiological measures used in the process and identify the stage of Total Quality Improvement process that is utilizing Epidemiological studies and surveillance directly. HINT: remember, it is an outline of a plan.

524W9 Assignment 4 - User Frustration Assignment 4: User Frustration Worth 80 points The quality of the user experience is very important to the success of an application. In the early days of computing, users often experienced long delays since computing power was poor and networks had comparatively slow throughput. Modern systems have largely eliminated these delays due to increased network and computing power, yet users still report a high level of frustration. Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you: Describe three (3) reasons users are still frustrated with modern applications. Suggest one (1) method for reducing the frustrations for each of the reasons you supplied in Question one (1). Describe methods for determining if user frustration is caused by poor system design or from the natural frustration associated with learning a new software product. Suggest at least three (3) methods to reduce the frustrations among the disabled population and how this population can be better served. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length. The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are: Describe the inherent design issues across HCI environments. Explain the use of interaction devices. Use technology and information resources to research issues in human-computer interaction. Write clearly and concisely about HCI topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions. Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.