Introduction Patton fuller community hospital is a reputable hospital, known as its strict commitment towards the proper application of the (HIPAA) rules, and its adherence to the standard norms being in practice, as well as its homogeneous business model in place that inspires lot of companies. During this paper, we are going to discuss the modality of this business system, strength points as well as the missing areas that should be improved. We also are going to describe what improvement might be adopted to enhance the relationships with outside organizations and global organizations. Analyze the current business system in place: Who, what, when, how, and why? In a general view, Patton Fuller hospital community is constituted from several departments. The arrangement of these departments is divided in to two sections, the clinical area which encompasses the following departments: Emergency rooms (ERP’s), Operating rooms (OR’s), Pharmacy, labs, Doctor’s offices, Wards, Outpatient examining rooms, and intensive care units (ICU’s). The administrative area for its part circles the following departments: IT department, Admitting/Discharge, Facilities, Human Resources (HR’s),
Finance, and hospital senior management. Among this formation of multiple departments, we can count individual section of department that remains independent in term of using different standards such as 1000BASE F, such as Radiology section.
Regarding the entire network in use within the company, is a 1000BASE T, which supplies
1gigabit of Ethernet connectivity over 5 cables (CAT 6) (Hewlett-packard, 2000. Pg1). The entire hospital beneficiates from a complete power backup system with automatic cutover to a large diesel motor generator set. Individual departments have local UPS. Also, all patient data files are encrypted for storage using AES, and all access to patient data files
References: Express heath care management, Indian newspaper for health care, published date: from the 1st to 15th January, 2005, retrieved from: http://www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/20050115/technology02.shtml