Patton-Fuller Rfp Cmgt554
Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Request for Project (RFP)
CMGT 554 / IT Infrastructure
Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Request for Project (RFP) The following document shall serve as the RFP (Request for Project) for the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. Team A has researched the hospital’s current IT systems seeking ways to ensure many years of continued success and compliance with the very best practices in the IT community today. Specific areas such as networking architecture design and the future proofing of the design for speed, accuracy, and security of the system shall be discussed as part of this RFP. Special consideration was given to the sensitive nature of the security surrounding patient information while proposing changes. The network proposals also include planning for external data links for areas such as insurance companies, physician offices, and vendors for medical supplies. As much of this data is critical to the treatment of patients, high speed and high reliability network function is second only to the security of the network itself. As the customer base grows it will also be critical to maintain adequate data storage on site as well. Team A shall propose the best methods for securing large amounts of data at the hospital, and the best methods to ensure physical and electronic security for this data. As many of the current technologies being used are data intensive when looking at storage needs the specific areas such as x-rays, MRI’s, CAT-scans and other large files storage will be addressed. Once the network and storage is fully installed and working as specified the next step is to assure that the software and supporting hardware is well suited to display the data to the end users in an easily manageable and highly functional method. Specific methods to deliver data to the end users are discussed and included in the final proposal, including suggestions for Wi-Fi, satellite, WiMax, DSL, cable and how each
CMGT 554 / IT Infrastructure
Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Request for Project (RFP) The following document shall serve as the RFP (Request for Project) for the Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. Team A has researched the hospital’s current IT systems seeking ways to ensure many years of continued success and compliance with the very best practices in the IT community today. Specific areas such as networking architecture design and the future proofing of the design for speed, accuracy, and security of the system shall be discussed as part of this RFP. Special consideration was given to the sensitive nature of the security surrounding patient information while proposing changes. The network proposals also include planning for external data links for areas such as insurance companies, physician offices, and vendors for medical supplies. As much of this data is critical to the treatment of patients, high speed and high reliability network function is second only to the security of the network itself. As the customer base grows it will also be critical to maintain adequate data storage on site as well. Team A shall propose the best methods for securing large amounts of data at the hospital, and the best methods to ensure physical and electronic security for this data. As many of the current technologies being used are data intensive when looking at storage needs the specific areas such as x-rays, MRI’s, CAT-scans and other large files storage will be addressed. Once the network and storage is fully installed and working as specified the next step is to assure that the software and supporting hardware is well suited to display the data to the end users in an easily manageable and highly functional method. Specific methods to deliver data to the end users are discussed and included in the final proposal, including suggestions for Wi-Fi, satellite, WiMax, DSL, cable and how each
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