Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Proposed Network Diagrams
Overview

The Patton-Fuller Community Hospital intranet Web site contains seven network diagrams. These are titled: * Top View * Logical Network * Administration Network Details * Radiology * RIS Data Center * OR/ICU/Ward Floor Systems * IT Data Center

Each of the diagrams is described in detail on the following pages of this document.

Top View Network Diagram

The top view network diagram represents the hospital structure from an Information Technology network perspective. The diagram visually distinguishes between the hospital’s clinical areas and its administrative functions.

The clinical areas are: * Emergency Rooms and Operating Rooms * Pharmacy * Labs * Radiology * Doctors personal offices * Wards * Outpatient examining rooms * Intensive Care Units
The administrative functions are: * Information Technology Department * Admitting/Discharge * Facilities * Human Resources * Hospital Senior Management * Finance
The backbone network structure for the entire hospital is 1000 BaseT. Individual sections of departmental networks such as Radiology use different standards such as 1000 BaseF.
The entire hospital has a complete power backup system with automatic cutover to a large diesel motor generator set. Individual departments have local UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) as depicted on the individual department network diagrams.
HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is rigorously enforced. All patient data files are encrypted for storage using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). All access to patient data files requires identification and authentication of each user. In all Radiology modalities the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine) standard and PACS