A New Network System For Their New Clinic

Question: You are an IT Director of a large healthcare system and your employer made a decision to build a new hospital within 15 miles of your current location. Your main data center will remain in the same location, and all your clinical applications will be made available to the new hospital. However, you need to plan a network infrastructure to extend access to all clinical applications at the new location. You are expected to: Identify all critical elements and technologies necessary to achieve stated goals of your project. Describe the resources you will require to achieve your project goals. Architect, at a high level, your proposed solution and draw a diagram in a software application of your choice, typically Power Point or Visio. List and describe clinical applications that will run on your proposed infrastructure. Identify benefits and risks to business operations and patient care environment, resulting from your proposed solution. Briefly describe to senior management why your solution is a good fit and how you will address the risks identified above. Answer: Abstract A large heath care system wants to open a new clinic within the 15miles from the present location of the clinic. Therefore, they need a new network system for their new clinic. The IT director of this health care was involved in this network implementation purpose. The IT director proposed a network solution for this scenario and identified the advantages and risk of this proposed scenario. Critical Element and Necessary technology Critical Element A list of the critical elements is presented below: Security threats are one of the major essential elements to achieving the goal. Security threats can have happened in many ways such as unauthorized access, viruses on the system and many more. Security threats prevention is one of the major critical elements of the proposed network system (Vilalta et al., 2015). Application architecture needs to be changed to complete this proposed network system. At the present clinic, the application architecture is designed for single use. Therefore, for a new clinic, the IT director needs to change the application architecture to support multiple users (Pentikousis et al., 2015). Staff tanning is required for the new system. The proposed network system is the new system. Therefore, the present workers need training for the operating this new system. Necessary Technology A list of necessary technologies is listed below: A firewall system is necessary for security purpose in the new proposed network system. IDS (Intrusion detection system) is required for monitoring the network activity of the new clinic. Network mediums are needed to implement this proposed network system. End device connectivity is required to implement this proposed network design. Resource The IT director has presented a network solution for the new clinic. Therefore, resources are required to implement the proposed system (Hills, 2015). The list of resources are given bellow: Network Resource is one of the primary resources in this new proposed system. All types of network devices are being considered under this category. The hardware resource is the primary network resource for this purpose (Foster et al., 2015). To setup, a new network system the IT director of this health care system would need some network hardware devices such as the router, firewall, switches, network cables, and other network devices. The new network system would be based on the cloud connections. Therefore, cloud servers are also required for this purpose. Database Related Resources are also necessary for implementing this new network system. In this present scenario, the data server is located in the present clinic, and the new clinic will be connected to this data server (Davies et al., 2015). Therefore, the size of this data server needs to be increased. A new large data server is required. For this new network solution, the central clinic needs another three type of databases: one for maintaining the primary data server and additional two data servers functioning as the business logic data server and web server. Applications used by the present system needed to be changed. In the present scenario, this application should be controlled from the new clinic. Therefore, an application developer is required to redevelop this application (Simmons, 2014). Proposed Network Architecture The IT director was engaged to design a network system for their new clinic. The major data center remains the same location, which is modern health care center or clinic. All the other clinical technologies and application will be available in the new health care clinic. For this scenario, the cloud system is the best solution. The two clinics will be connected via a cloud system. Both clinics have one router that is connected with the network cloud system. A switch is connected to this router. For the protection purpose, a firewall system is connected to the router (Farahani et al., 2014). This router context is same in the present and new health care clinic. The present and central medical clinic contain the primary data server. Three types of data servers would be used in this case. The new clinic will be connected with these data servers via network cloud system. A network design is given below: Figure 1: Network Design (Source: created by author) Clinical Application The new health care clinic will be facelifted with the same clinical application as the central clinic. Digitalized clinical application is one of the main clinical applications designed for the new health care clinic. Some of the main digitalized application are digital x-ray application, digital mammography, remote microscopy, the cytology and many more. This application will help the clinic staffs to perform more efficient work in the clinic. This application will save time. All the performance data will be automatically stored in the mine data server. One centralized data server will help to store the data, and that can be accessed from any clinic. This centralized data server store all the information related to the clinic. The network-based information system will help to share the current patient status between these two clinics. This system would be more efficient to monitor all the patient details (Ciaffi, Cipriani, Petrelli, 2012). Benefits and Risk Benefits The centralized data server will help the staffs of the clinic to monitor the overall business process from any place any time. In addition to this, it will assist the clinic personnel to monitor the real-time patient situation. Digitalization of clinical application also a significant benefit of this proposed network system. Digitalized clinical application will provide an auto report generating facility. A customer health care report will be generated automatically and stored it in the main centralized data server. This system will be very helpful for the clinical staffs and help to save the time. Fast and secure information sharing system will assist the clinical teams to share patient information between these two clinics (Farahani et al., 2014). Risk Cost utilization factor is a big risk in this proposed system. A tremendous amount of cost is required to implement this network. The security risk is a common risk factor in any health care system. If the firewall is not configured correctly, then the firewall will not perform properly, and the security level will be decreased. System stability is one of the significant risks in any new system. If the new network system is not stable, then it will be trouble for the new clinic (Baghalian, Rezapour, Farahani, 2014). Training for Staffs: This system is new. Therefore, the clinical teams require a proper training to handle this system otherwise this system would be down (Curtis et al., 2012). Privacy also risks a standard risk in any health care system. Justification to the senior manager The provided network solution is proper and maintains all the networking rules. The proposed network system is cloud based therefore the centralized data center will help the staffs to access any patient information anytime anywhere. This is a significant benefit of this system. Also, this system will assist the workers of the clinic to save their time and support the monitoring of the real-time activities of the patients by the help of digitalized clinical application. These are the main reasons that this network solution is the right fit with this new clinic. References Baghalian, A., Rezapour, S., Farahani, R. Z. (2013). Robust supply chain network design with service level against disruptions and demand uncertainties: A real-life case. 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