Network Design for Utopimed Medical Center in Australia

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Design
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Overview of the organization
Utopimed is a medical center which is located in
Australia that is interested in designing its network
systems
The medical center has about 10 chambers for GPs
and 10 chambers for specialist with about 20 doctors
All the chambers are equipped with computers which
are connected to the organization network
In the waiting area patients ought to be in a position to
access the Internet via the Wi-Fi

Business goals
 Reduce the operation cost of Utopimed
 This is usually measured in terms of TOC (Total Cost of
Ownership)
 Increased Utopimed employee productivity
 This is measured by the average number of staff minutes per
week
 Currently is 1.7 million minutes per month
 Avoiding business disruption which are caused as result
of network downtime

 Reduce the operational inefficiencies
 This is usually calculated in terms of the average
time that one can process a certain medical record
over the network
 In here it is time of opening a certain medical
record to the time of submitting the record the
current median time is estimated as five minutes
per record
Cont..

 Reduce the operational inefficiencies also
measured in terms of the Utopimed network
availability i.e. the number of hours of downtime
in one week: Currently the average downtime is 56
hours in one week.
 Every hour that Utopimed network is unavailable
it means that the organization is losing $2500
every hour
Cont.

 Budget constrains: Network upgrade need not to
exceed $800,000
 The budget needs to include applications for
equipment purchase, maintenance and support, and
software licenses
 Utopimed policies: It is very important for the
network designer to gather the organization policy
since policies vary from organization to another
 Scheduling issues
Business constrains

 Network administrators
 Clinicians
 Doctors
 Data center admin
 Accountants
 Store an inventory team
 Nurses
Table of user communities

 Email server: This supports Utopimed internal email
system where all the organization employees will be
the users
 Routers: This will contain routing tables
 DNS server: This will hold the network addresses
 Database server: This will hold all the patients records
 Application server: This will hold all the organization
applications such as the payroll application
 Web server
List of data stores