Network Project #5

Running Head : Patton-Fuller Community Hospital - Network Architecture

Describe what steps must be taken to update the hospital infrastructure (and software ) to ensure that patient privacy is maintained and all governmental regulations are met

As the increasing volume of information in hospitals is being stored and transmitted electronically , it becomes essential that security is given due importance in every segment of network design and maintenance Although , security has been attributed much importance in wireless networks and remote access , it is very important to give the same level of importance to the middle layer

in the network architecture (Briere 2005 . If the wired network in today 's hospital environment is compromised and becomes unreliable , most of the features of hospital operations are exposed to danger and may result in risking the patient lives

From the architectural point of view , the hospital network consists of a set of software module (servers , which operate by the individual application (client ) during communication amongst the interfaces . It should be emphasized that the services provide by the hospitals are exclusively oriented to the functional domain of the hospital , and do not have any relation with the basic technological aspect used to implement the scheme

A number of components are part of this Information architecture , which are installed and used in the existing environment of various hospitals One of the major components , as can be seen in the diagram , is the working center . The purpose of this working center is to have a better and open spread information...