Comprehensive Analysis of the Network Architecture in a Hospital

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the network architecture of a hospital, focusing on the deployment of a new network infrastructure within a healthcare organization in the United States. It details the requirements, including dual MAN and SNMP tools, and the resources needed, such as land, computational devices, and service providers. The report outlines the network architecture and clinical applications like EHR, EICU, and PDAs. It identifies potential benefits such as reduced operational costs and improved customer satisfaction, along with associated risks like network outages and security breaches. Finally, the report proposes mitigation strategies, including advanced security mechanisms and VPN setups to address these risks, concluding with the effectiveness of the healthcare system in addressing the needs of the concerned population and increasing the brand value of the organization.

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Executive summary
This report discusses about the system architecture that will be deployed in a healthcare
organization. The chosen country is United States. The healthcare organization is a successful
project which utilizes the need for providing healthcare to the population concerned. This report
includes a successful analysis of the resources and the clinical applications that will be used for
this architecture. This report also includes an analysis of the various risks and threats that are
associated to it. Lastly, the various mitigation strategies for removing the presence of any threats
are also present in this report.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................3
Identification and analysis of the requirements...........................................................................3
Description of resources..............................................................................................................4
Network architecture...................................................................................................................5
Clinical applications....................................................................................................................5
Identifications of benefits and risks associated...........................................................................7
Mitigation....................................................................................................................................9
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Due to the need for addressing the increase in allotting health care in hospitals, the
increasing concern for adopting a strong network is a necessity. This is the main cause for
strengthening the network of a hospital in terms of security and reliance. As such, the need for
network infrastructure and information technology is also a concern and many hospitals are
reinventing their network infrastructure. This report includes a discussion about the development
of a new network infrastructure for a hospital. Moreover, this report also includes a discussion of
the general resource and requirements that will be used. Lastly, this report presents various risks
and mitigation strategies that will be utilized for the architecture.
Discussion
This section discusses the main contents of the report.
Identification and analysis of the requirements
The main objective of this report includes the deployment of a new network
infrastructure for a hospital that will be effective in addressing to the needs of the
communication. This includes deployment of the dual MAN (metro area network) and the SnMP
tool (Simple network management protocol) which helps in efficient network management
(Mandl et al., 2014). The various centers in the healthcare facility will be connected by using the
Dual-MAN network. This will be made by taking connections from service providers who will
be addressing the faulty issues or other problems associated.
Another requirement to consider is wired and wireless access to the system. This will also
be addressed for utilizing mobile devices. Network access points and quality of service balancing

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(QoS) are other requirements that will be identified for the organization. Authentication and
security is also considered to be efficient requirements which will be in place with video
monitoring and support. Lastly, the system will also include network monitoring and logging for
efficient management.
Description of resources
There are various resources that are to be used for making the infrastructure technology.
The first requirements are the allotment of land (Catarinucci et al., 2015). This will be the area
where the structure will be built. The blue prints are to be analyzed and the necessary
constructional materials are to be chosen.
The next is the need for computational devices which will be utilized in setting up the
connections. After the allotment of devices, the need for service providers will be necessary. The
local service providers will be responsible for establishing of connections among the various
devices across the facility.
Moreover, access points and routers will be added to each place in the center so that
various devices and mobile devices will be successfully added to the network infrastructure. The
doctors and the patients can stay connected to the facility after the processing of the security and
monitoring checking (Yang, Ge, Li, Rao & Shen, 2014). After such facilities, the quality of
service will be maintained by appointing quality analyst who will then be responsible for
measuring the level of quality.

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Network architecture
Figure 1: Network architecture of the healthcare center
(Source: Created by the author)
Clinical applications
The major applications of clinical environment involve the utilization of the electronic
health record (EHR). This helps in sharing of information from one center of the facility to the

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other. This is also termed as a digital version of the records of a patient. In place of a paper to
store the information, an electronic record of the information is maintained. As such, these can
be sent to various places by utilizing the digital mail sending system. These are sent to authorize
users only whose credentials are stored in the system (Gope & Hwang, 2016). It consists of the
medical history of the patient, medications of them, diagnosis results, any allergies and other
health related data. These helps in removing the need for manual checkups of each patient for
every visit they make to the healthcare facility. This helps in automating the workflow of the
system which in turn leads to the increase in efficiency of the system.
Another clinical application that is to be used in the healthcare system is the Electronic
Intensive Care Unit (EICU). This system provides the possibility of monitoring the floors. This
also helps in checking the patients and the number of beds in each department. As such, it will be
utilized to track the changes associated with it (El-Sappagh & El-Masri, 2014). This requires
allocating each of the departments with resources such that they keep track effectively. This
involves allocation of bandwidth per site and per application consumed.
Moreover, the use of GUI (Graphical User Interface) monitoring system is to be adopted
for the network. This will enable the system to receive real-time data from the patients which
will then be utilized to monitor the health conditions of the patients (Saleem et al., 2015). The
GUI monitoring system will be made using he reference values listed in the table below.
According to the parameter of the detection results, a notification will be sent to the doctors
regarding changes to the records.
Alert Type Detection Parameter
Tachycardia of woman >100 bpm
Bradycardia of woman <80 bpm

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Tachycardia of fetal >110 bpm
Bradycardia of fetal <100
BP of woman > 139/90 (systolic/diastolic)
movements From past 4 readings>=3
Lastly, there is another clinical application known as the personal digital assistants
(PDA). This is also termed as a portable application that can be utilized for recording details.
This is termed to be very simple and easy to use. The doctors use this to check their schedule and
apply accordingly (Zhang, Qiu, Tsai, Hassan & Alamri, 2017). Moreover, they also use it to
fetch the records of the patients by connecting to the healthcare system network. In addition, the
system architecture uses the network to send any information or alerts to the doctors in their
PDAs. This helps to remind them for any notifications necessary.
Identifications of benefits and risks associated
There are various risks and threats associated to the implementation of the project. This
can range from system related risks to infrastructure related risks.
Risks
For a health care system, there can be various risks related to it. The first risk is the
network outages. Although, the system includes an architecture that is supported by two different
service providers, there can be possibilities of network outages (Wang, Mahmud, Fang & Wang,
2016). This is the first risk to the system which can lead to halt in the business processes of the
healthcare system.

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The next infrastructure related risk is that the development of the project can take more
than one year to complete the whole facility. In addition, the adoption of system deployment can
also take up to various months to get it started (Aziz, Tarapiah, Ismail & Atalla, 2016). The
service level agreements from these two service providers are also another point of uncertainty
that provides a certain level of risk to the system.
The next system related risk is the need for adopting security measures to the system.
These healthcare organizations are termed to various hacking incidents and threats which are the
main causes for breaches to it. As the system consists of various records of the patients, it can be
used to sell that information in exchange of money. As a result, hacking continues and the
organizations are subjected to adoption of changes in their system (Parane et al., 2014).
Moreover, the healthcare systems can be breached by hackers to cause harm to the patients. This
is another security related implications that are to be mitigated by the health care organization.
Benefits
There are various benefits to the health care organizations with adopted modern facilities.
The first benefit is the decreased cost for operation. As an electronic health record is utilized for
addressing the records of a patient, the need for maintaining physical registers are reduced. This
in turn reduces the cost of the system for addressing such requirements (Moosavi et al., 2015).
Furthermore, an effective management of the drugs can be achieved through the use of such
architecture.
Another benefit to the system is the reduction in errors. The doctors and patients are
notified on a daily basis to keep them occupied about their meetings. Moreover, as all the records
are maintained digitally, the reduction in errors are evident.

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Lastly, due to the adoption of various methods, the customer satisfaction will increase. As
such, they will opt for the same services in case of any ailments. Moreover, this will be able to
satisfy the customers and make a business image in the market. Acquisition of better market and
better market requisition will be enabled leading to more health based approaches.
Mitigation
The solutions that can be achieved from this healthcare unit will be able to address all the
necessary threats that arise from any kind of traditional health care organizations. The threats
that are evident can be removed by addressing the requirements (Weaver, Ball, Kim & Kiel,
2016). For security related threats, advanced security mechanisms and VPN setup can be used to
address them. Similarly, the system related threats can be mitigated by utilizing various methods
necessary.
Conclusion
Thus, it can be concluded that the utilization of the health care system can be effective in
addressing the needs of the population concerned. It will also be utilized in increasing the brand
value of the organization which will increase the revenue made. This report has successfully
listed the various network related resources that will be utilized for running a healthcare
organization. This report has also discussed about the clinical applications that is to be used.
Moreover, this report includes a system architecture diagram that will provide a blueprint for the
system. Furthermore, there are various risks and benefits to the system that have also been
discussed here. Lastly, this report ends with listing the various mitigation strategies that can be
used to address them.

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