St. Luke's Health System Case Study: Wireless Networks & Security

This case study examines St. Luke's Health System's implementation of wireless networks throughout its hospitals. It highlights the benefits of Mobility XE for mobile users, ensuring application persistence and secure remote access. The study also details the security mechanisms in place to ensure HIPAA compliance, focusing on administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. Furthermore, it discusses the advantages of using VLANs in a hospital setting, including cost savings, enhanced security through network traffic separation, and improved network performance by reducing broadcast traffic. The hospital's adoption of wireless technologies has streamlined clinical work processes, allowing clinicians to access and enter data in real-time, improving patient care and operational efficiency.

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Table of Contents
1. Discussion of patterns in the benefits of Mobility XE users realized via its deployment and use
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2. Security mechanisms ensure hospital compliance with HIPPA requirements............................2
3. Benefits of using VLANs in hospitals.........................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................4

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1. Discussion of patterns into benefits of Mobility XE users
Mobility XE solves of various issues into the ST. LUKE'S health care system. The
conventional VPN is not built with the mobile devices. At the time when the network tunnel is
being interrupted, then the application is disconnected and the device is crashed when the mobile
device runs in the dead spot (Boulware et al., 2016). Mobility XE is ensured that the users are
not losing the session throughout temporary dead spots along with feature is defined as: “True
Application Persistence”. It restrains sessions throughout suspend as well as resume cycles,
losses into connectivity as well as network switches. It provides security features such as two
factor authentication, authentication of device as well as FIPS 140-2 AES encryption. It provides
console for monitoring the connected devices. The features of mobility XE are to diagnose the
network challenges faced throughout the network tools. In these efforts, it is required to improve
the customer services along with its efforts to optimize the wireless communication network over
an area of 841 miles of service areas (Schmittdiel et al., 2015). Mobility XE is software only
mobile VPN which provides of secured, remote access to the network sources as well as
applications from the mobile devices over wireless IP based network.
2. Security mechanisms ensure hospital compliance with HIPPA requirements
There are various security mechanisms which are placed for the hospital networks in
order to fulfill with the “Health insurance portability as well as accountability act (HIPAA)”
needs. The hospital should ensure of confidentiality, availability as well as reliability of
electronic secured health information which generates, obtains, upholds as well as transmits.
There is protection against the anticipated threats for security along with integrity of information.

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Protection against anticipated, impermissible users and disclosure and ensure of compliance by
the workforces (Burwell, 2015). This paper is focused on effects of security rules. HIPAA
security rules are:
 Safeguards from the administrative side
 Services of security
 Physically safeguard
 Mechanisms of security and privacy
HIPAA security chooses command that when the human services data are put and prepared
electronically, then the security decides applied to secured elements. It would provide
immaculate paper based operations from security rules, which is an even association with
utilization of the fax innovation that is secured by HIPAA security run.
3. Benefits of using VLANs in hospitals
VLAN allows the network administrative to host together even when the hosts are not on
same network switch. The benefits of using VLAN into the hospitals are that it is cost saving that
can single switch to utilize as well as isolate the departments of network traffic. Secondly,
VLAN separates the network traffic prevents the devices from listening to the network traffic
and VLAN enhances the security (Duckett & Willcox, 2015).. It offers of security by the VLAN
device assignment. Thirdly, there is an increase into performance by reduction of the broadcast
traffic. Fourthly, the switch features of VLAN includes of VLAN trunk protocol, which
constructs proficient for sharing of VLAN across the physical network environments. Finally, the
quantity of broadcast traffic is generating which is less as compared to the past.

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