Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project (Week 3)
University of Phoenix
CMGT 554/IT INFRASTRUCTURE

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Networking Project
Today most new building construction is built with new technology and is not as much concerned with the type of budgets that a hospital muse consider in order to redesign a whole new network structure for the purpose of being more optimal and maintaining standards that keep up with advances in new technology. In most cases, a hospital’s network can transition over time with new technology and evolve into meeting the demands it requires to perform effectively. However, upgrading a hospital’s entire network can often be very expensive to implement and sustain. There may be a case where components or parts are no longer being produced to meet current and future demands. In the last several years, changes in healthcare put a demand on hospitals to maintain their networks with new, more efficient solutions that can enhance performance, keep cost low, but most one that is reliable .
The Network architecture at Patton-Fuller hospital was designed for each department to rely on information flow between each department. In other words, if the accounting department needed information from the pharmacy or admissions in order to create invoices or insurance billing, it would be rely on those departments to share real time information through the network. It is important for a facility as large as a hospital to have a Networking system that information management (IM) can efficiently support the information flow. The Network architecture must have a design that is capable of supporting large amounts of data being transmitted through the Network server because it is the largest consumer of an information system (IS). By having a Network that is “efficient”, it also will reduce errors and risks