...Current and Emerging Technology Task 2 Technological Solutions Ainsley Dunbar Western Governors University 11-16-2015 Introduction Northeastern Health Services (NHS) is a health services company in Maine. Its primary focus is to address the health and welfare needs of underserved patients in rural Maine in remote locations near the Canadian border. NHS’s goal is to provide state-of-the-art health services to its clients and offer complete medical imaging services with rapid turnaround of results and diagnosis. (Task 2 Scenario) NHS Has asked for an evaluation of options for bringing Internet connectivity to remote locations of Northern Maine. Task A-Annotated Bibliography To begin the analysis of broadband options for NHS, we will start with ten references that will be used to evaluate each solution. We will talk about the potential technological solution, discuss its uses and then explore the application to the given scenario. Lastly, we will make our recommendations for NHS and the reasons behind the selection. One Northern Maine - Connected - Telecommunications. (n.d.). Retrieved December 11, 2015, from http://www.appme.org/connected/telecommunications.asp This article talks about some of the broadband accomplishments that the state of Maine has achieved over the years. The first state to have statewide backbone running on ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) which is a fast “cell switching” technology. The potential technological solution the article talks about...
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...Internet Connection Study Prepared for: Northeastern Health Services, Inc. Prepared by Joe Smith, Health Care Technology Consultant Annotated Bibliography: Haggard, J. (2014). America’s Embrace of the Mobile Internet : Analyses and Issues. New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc. In this collection of articles, the editor brings together papers covering three different topics - adoption of mobile internet and how it differs between demographic groups; how culture is able to impact design and usage of mobile devices; and how text and multimedia messaging present new challenges for policymakers. With regard to this proposal, the first article discusses how mobile internet usage in rural areas has lagged behind the rest of the population. The article also points out that while there have been improvements in coverage, the build-out of mobile networks has typically been less extensive than in urban areas. Solution: Mobile/Wireless Internet Its Use: Mobile Internet service could potentially be used in conjunction with site-to-site VPN connections, in order to establish connectivity from the remote locations to the hospital. Application: Mobile Internet hotspot devices could be used to get Internet access in Northeastern Health Services’ remote offices. In conjuction with these hotspots, firewall appliances can be used to establish a site-to-site VPN connection from each of the offices to the hospital’s radiology department. However, because of the lower levels of...
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...Running Head: LYT2 TASK 3! 1 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! LYT2 Task 3 City of Seabreeze Virtualization Adoption Plan! Kristopher Rosenberg! Western Governors University! ! ! ! ! ! LYT2 TASK 3! 2 LYT2 Task 3 City of Seabreeze Virtualization Adoption Plan! Given the City of Seabreeze’s declining revenue stream and resultant financial situation, as well as simple good government, it is critical that the city find ways of reducing expenses while continuing to provide the services needed by the citizens of Seabreeze. This includes the city’s use of information technology. Technology investments cannot simply be eliminated, as they are a critical component of the city’s infrastructure on which key city services rely upon. Therefore it is necessary to identify technologies which can produce a greater return on investment (ROI) through reductions in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the city’s technology assets. One approach that would meet this need that has been identified is the adoption of server, storage and desktop virtualization technology. These technologies not only represent a significant opportunity for the City of Seabreeze to reduce costs, but it will also enable the city to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, raise IT staff efficiency, and improve disaster recovery capabilities.! 1. Virtualization benefits The term “virtualization” refers to technology that enables a single physical device, such as a server with a large pool of resources...
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...Current and Emerging Technologies: LYT2 Task 1 A1. Describe how the challenges in the Simple Getaways RFP affect key stakeholders. If left uncorrected, the challenges being experienced by Simple Getaways will continue to affect key stakeholders in the following ways: • Multiple versions of office documents are passed between staff. This may result in management making poor business decisions because of inaccurate or outdated information. In addition, incorrect or outdated information may be used by employees and passed to customers. • Each office site stores its data on local file servers. This practice makes it difficult to access and or share data across the multiple locations. Business productivity is also sacrificed as a result of the time it takes to e-mail documents between the office locations and await responses. Key stakeholders affected range from middle and upper management to employees collaborating on different tasks. • Simple Gateways experiences frequent, problematic processing delays for administrative tasks while using a paper based system. This may result in confusion for supervisors and employees as to which staff members are out of the office and when. Administrative task processing delays may result in staff taking time off when, in fact, a time off request has not yet been approved thereby creating possible staffing shortages. In addition, pay check inconsistencies and or errors may occur as delayed time off requests are not processed and...
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...LYT2 TASK 2 Current and Emerging Technology 2/18/2015 This article analyzed the healthcare connectivity needs. The article is divided into four sections. Health Care Providers’ Broadband Needs, Broadband Connectivity Options, Gaps and Barriers Preventing Sufficient Broadband Levels and Next Phase of Analysis. This is an indispensable work for anyone assessing the broadband needs of the healthcare sector. The author presented an analysis of health care providers’ connectivity requirements and the ability of the country’s infrastructure to meet those needs. Retrieved from Federal Communication Commission. (2010). Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan The article referred to broadband infrastructure and networks of deployed telecommunication equipment and technologies necessary to provide high speed internet access and other advance telecommunications services for private homes, business, commercial establishments, schools and public institutions. In the United States, broadband infrastructure is constructed, and maintained primary by the private sector including telephone, cable, satellite, wireless, fiber optics and other information technologies including cable modem, DSL (copper wire) wireless system, fiber and satellite. Although broadband is deployed by private-sector providers, Federal and State regulation of the telecommunication industry as well as the government financial assistance programs can have a significant impact on private sector decision...
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...| Current and Emerging Technology – LYT2 Task 1 | | PREPAREDFORSimple Getaways, Inc.RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL September 22, 2014 | Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 II. BACKGROUND 2 a. Current Issues 2 b. Key Stakeholders 2 Sponsorship/Champion 2 III. ACTUAL PERFORMANCE VS. DESIRED PERFORMANCE 4 a. Document Management 4 b. Administrative tasks 4 IV. PROPOSED SOLUTION 4 a. Document Management/ Collaboration 4 Key Benefits 5 b. Workforce Management 5 Key Benefits 6 V. Conclusion 6 VI. References 6 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Based upon the two major challenge detailed in the Simple Getaways’ RFP, both challenges appear to steam from the current decentralized structure of the organization. Each office is acting as its own entity, with its own document management and workforce management. By implementing Huddle for document management and Oracle’s workforce management solution it will be possible to centralize both document management and workforce management across the entire organization. Greatly improving the sharing/ collaboration of documents as well as improving controls around workforce management. II. BACKGROUND This document is in response to the RFP created by Simple Getaways, Inc., requesting solutions for a new information processing system. a. Current Issues There are a number of challenges with Simple Getaways’ current system: * Little to no version control of documents, multiple versions of documents exist...
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...LYT2 Task 3 City of Seabreeze Virtualization Adoption Plan! Given the City of Seabreeze’s declining revenue stream and resultant financial situation, as well as simple good government, it is critical that the city find ways of reducing expenses while continuing to provide the services needed by the citizens of Seabreeze. This includes the city’s use of information technology. Technology investments cannot simply be eliminated, as they are a critical component of the city’s infrastructure on which key city services rely upon. Therefore it is necessary to identify technologies which can produce a greater return on investment (ROI) through reductions in the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the city’s technology assets. One approach that would meet this need that has been identified is the adoption of server, storage and desktop virtualization technology. These technologies not only represent a significant opportunity for the City of Seabreeze to reduce costs, but it will also enable the city to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, raise IT staff efficiency, and improve disaster recovery capabilities. 1. Virtualization benefits The term “virtualization” refers to technology that enables a single physical device, such as a server with a large pool of resources (CPU, memory, disk, etc.), to be logically segregated into smaller separate “virtual machines”, or “VMs” that are each given their own subset of resources based on their actual utilization requirements. According...
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...LYT2-Task 3 Assess and Adopt a Virtualization Adoption Plan What is Virtualization? Virtualization, in computing, refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including but not limited to a virtual computer hardware, platform, operating system (OS), storage device or computer network resources. Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. Software executed on these virtual machines is separated from the underlying hardware resources. For example, a computer that is running Microsoft Windows can host a virtual machine within it and can load Linux (Ubuntu) that looks like a computer with the the operating system Ubuntu Linux. i.e. both operating systems Microsoft Windows and Linux can be loaded in the same machine with Ubuntu Linux is in the virtual machine. Ubuntu-based software can be run on the virtual machine. Server Virtualization: This refers to creating a server in the cloud for example Amazon Web Services where virtual servers can be created and can be accesses as a service. 1. Description about how the benefits of virtualization would impact the city of Seabreeze. The city has a Physical server environment which consists of 72 servers, the storage environment of DAS (Direct Attach Storage) and 350 desktop or end computers. This setup can be virtualized by purchasing space for storage, server and end computing. This...
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...LYT2 Task 2 Western Governors University Part A - Technological Solutions for NHS, Inc. 1. DSL Technology Sims, J. (September 13, 2014). The Future of DSL. Retrieved September 14, 2015 from http://www.highspeedexperts.com/future-of-dsl/. Solution - This article describes the DSL technologies that are available and which direction most companies are going with. DSL services offer much higher speeds than a typical dial-up solution while utilizing the existing phone lines to transfer data. With this technology there are two main DSL options that are available. SDSL (Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line) is an older technology which is targeted at businesses and enterprises that offers equal and fast upstream and downstream speeds. The other option is VDSL which is a faster solution for larger businesses. Use - VDSL (Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line) is the dominant DSL technology at the moment. VDSL is also in its 2nd generation which is referred to as VDSL2 which offers speeds of 100 Mbps downstream and 20 Mbps upstream. GDSL (Gigabit Digital Subscriber Line) is the upcoming technology that is promising but the specifications are still being proposed and debated. Application - DSL technology is a solution that NHS, Inc. can utilize given that all their clinics are supplied or are in reach of a landline telephone company and have the infrastructure in place. DSL would also be fast enough to handle the 100MB of files being transferred...
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