NTC 361 PFCH Network Design Plan Week 3 PDF

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PFCH Network Design Plan Week 3

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PFCH Network Design Plan Two

Team A will continue to design the network for the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital (PFCH) in two consecutive weeks. The team will look at the existing topology network for the entire hospital and the various individual departments within the hospital, provide rationale for the adoption of existing topologies, explain benefits and limitations of the various topologies, explain how the choice of the topology used is determined by the cabling, and the present recommendations for changes and benefits of the suggested improvements. A Review of the current network topology

Patton-Fuller Community hospital has multiple network technology infrastructure to give superior patient care. To achieve such high patient care quality, communication within the hospital, workers and all the various departments requires certain networks to be electronically connected. Both clinical and administrative places need a network that can differentiate from one another. In addition to a reliable network, a back-up system is important for the activities to continue to operate at a normal rate. Patton-Fuller Community has a large motor generator that uses diesel and each department is supplied with a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to ensure the organization is capable of electronically functioning during a blackout.

The whole hospital uses 1000Base T, and the individual specific departments’ networks use 1000Base F. The hospital uses the Ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) which is then connected to 1000Base T (using CAT 6 cable) and 1000Base F (using single mode fiber) through the use of a Network Bridge and is the second step on the OSI model (Apollo, 2013).

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Departments that are considered as administrative are as follows:

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The top-most management of the hospital which includes the executive director, the operations manager etc.

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Human resources department which deals with all employees

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Operations department, which takes care of the various activities of the hospital.

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Facilities department, which ensures that everything needed by the hospital whether it is the cleaning agents or medicine, is available.

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Finance department which deals with the finances of the hospitals

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Information Technology and Data Center, which deals with the technology of the hospital in regards to the equipment used.

The departments are interconnected or wired together by a Bus Topology Network. The following represent the clinical departments:

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Operating rooms

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labs

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radiology

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labs

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Intensive care unit

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emergency room

A Bus Topology Network (Apollo, 2013) symbolizes these departments. Clinical departments’ methods of documentation are done through the Apple iMacs from which the WPA (Wireless Access Point) are required in certain areas of the floors. Radiology department requires nodes specific to images as well as specific printers to print detailed digital images.

Since the hospital must follow HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) rules, PHI (Patient Health Information) is marked and will require recognition and confirmation from each user to be able to retrieve data or information for any patient information. Data is communicated either within or without through OSI (Open System Interconnection) model. To make their services available to the patients and their families with the latest technology, the organization is equipped for wireless connection, WAN (Wide Access Network) for both internal and external Wi-Fi, so patients are able to use the Internet. The internal Wi-Fi is used so the staff has the ability to conveniently use an iPad to which 10 is supplied per floor and complies with HIPAA regulations.

Cabling and Topology

Depending on the type of Topology you will use will normally decide the type of cabling you are going to use for your network. For instance if you are going to be using the bus topology within the organization then you will need to use cabling that will connect all of the computer systems within the organization in a straight line. This means you will start with one computer system and then connect it to the other and so forth so that they are all connected in a row. Of course it may not be an exact straight line but it will be in a line from one computer to the next

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until you reach the end. Then there is the ring topology that can be used for the network of computers. With this cabling it will be connected in a circle to where all computer systems are connected together. It is different from the bus topology as this has a starting and ending point to where the ring topology does not. The third topology that requires a type of cabling is the star topology which the cabling starts at a certain point and then branches out to each computer system within the network of the organization. The star topology works in that if one of the cables were to have an issue the other systems would still work and only the computer with the cable issue would not. As far as the bus and ring method of cabling if there were to be a problem in one of the cables then all systems would go down and the entire network connected with this cabling would not work (“Twu Local”, 2014).

Recommendations and Changes

The recommendations for this hospital would be that it may consider going from the bus topology to the star topology. The reason for this recommendation would be if there was a cabling issue it would not affect the entire network system in the hospital. This way if one computer were to have issues and not be working the other computers would still have access to the network within the organization.

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References

Janssen, C. (2013). 1000 BaseF. Retrieved from http://www.techopedia.com/definition/28319/1000basef

TWU LOCAL. (2014). Retrieved from http://twulocal100tuf.org/software/Hardware/All-InOne_CompTIA_Network

University of Phoenix, Apollo Group, Inc. Virtual Organizations Portal (2013). Patton Fuller Community Hospital Information Systems Overview. Retrieved from https://ecampus.phoenix.edu/secure/aapd/cist/vop/Healthcare/PFCH/isoverview.asp?subg roup=it...