First Rate Hospital Case Study

First Rate Hospital (FRH) is committing significant resources to this pilot program since the demand for this type of network will only increase with time. Setting up a new infrastructure has monetary costs for both equipment and man-hours. The IT staff will need to install and set up the new infrastructure, as well as, train professional and standard users on the expectations for use of the new network and specific HIPAA rules for the use of their own device.
The IT department along other members of the governance committee will need to meet to develop standard protocols, policies and guidelines that clearly communicate the BYOD expectations. Employees need to fully understand that the use of an MDM platform allows FRH to access their device
Initially, there will be four applications available. First, a Clinical Decision Tool (CDS), this will allow physicians and nurses to access the CDS from any location in or out of the hospital. Second, the Physician’s Drug Reference (PDR) and the Nurses Drug book will be accessible through the VPN into the cloud. Lastly, and perhaps most important, will be the HIPAA-compliant messaging system (Williams, 2015). This messaging system will allow nurses to quickly reach a physician, negating the need for overhead paging and waiting for the physician to find an in-house phone to dial an extension. This ability will improve communication and collaboration between clinical staff (Williams,2015). Both standard and professional users will be able to access the human resources application. This will allow staff to easily and quickly submit vacation requests, change tax information, upload a training certificate to their file, and so much more. FRH is considering allowing some standard users the ability to use the HIPAA-compliant messaging system. Some of the positions being considered for this application are OR schedulers, and unit