Case Study 9

Patterns to be put into Consideration to Improve Mobile XE

The Mobility XE should improve on its tracking and inventory management. Having a well-structured tracking system will enable the nurses and doctors in the hospital locate lost therapeutic hardware facilities easily; thus, the time taken in searching for this items would get reduced. Besides, the process of invoicing should speed up, which will allow customers request for and receive services at a faster rate. Nevertheless, Mobile XE should maximize on the interest obtained from cell phones, applications, and virtual networking.  Finally, yet importantly, daily sales calls should be increased, and consumers’ publicity should get freed.

         Security Issues to be observed for the Hospital to Comply with HIPAA

The HIPPA under the Federal Code of Conduct Part 164 Section C 65, hospital networks should be efficient in ensuring that patients’ information gets protected from unauthorized access (Angst, Block, D’arcy& Kelley, 2017). In that case, to ensure that the hospital complies with the HIPAA requirements, the hospital should consider various components in its security mechanism. Firstly, the hospital should consider undertaking a risk analysis. Conducting a risk analysis will enable the hospital to identify possible threats that might affect its security. After that, the hospital should select a security administrator who will be in charge of its safety. The hospital should then identify various strategies and guidelines that will ensure its information gets secured from unauthorized access. The implementation of the defined policies will ensure that the hospital complies with the HIPAA.

             Advantages of using VLANs

    The benefits of using VLANs in hospitals include advanced security. Notably, VLAN provides a more organized security model. Also, installation and maintenance of VLAN are less expensive as compared to the development of a functioning system that utilizes switches, which are quite costly. Besides, VLANs are transparent in the physical topology in which they are connected (Bai, 2015). There are three ways to assign your preferred device either a laptop, printer or computer, the methods include, MAC-based, Port-based and Protocol based. By installing VLAN, St Luke could improve its network by allowing a wide range of users who access its system. Additionally, a VLAN will strengthen the network security of St. Luke Hospital. 

     VLANs dramatically increases the performance decreasing broadcast traffic by using L3 switch abilities to gain wire-speed routing among VLANs and involving VLAN based QoS practices. For the systems to move from one VLAN to another VLAN smoothly with no obstacles, a device which is Layer -3 should route them together. The method can either be a Layer-3 switch or even a traditional router. The device also enables carefully monitoring network usage thus permitting the network authority to establish VLANs which decrease the number of routers bounds. Moreover, it improves and increases the supposed bandwidth of people using the network. The network will run effectively at St Luke hospital. Besides, there is a guarantee that there will be no such case of low performance.

    The level of broadcast traffic getting generated presently is far much less than what had obtained used in the past years, protocols like SPX, IPX, NetBIOS and RIP Version 1 are rarely used in the current times. Network equipment like NSX and vSphere tend to reduce the network broadcast traffic through the medium of features like ARP suppression. Likewise, the CPU is very useful in operating with the broadcast traffic. The VLANs provide the proficiency of cut down the size of the failure domain. If by any chance the device used has a damaged Network Interface Card (NIC) it may generate enough traffic to every host in the VLAN. Additionally, this will boost the St Luke hospital network and work performance since the networks would be readily available and active at any time they may need to use it.

     VLANs are manageable due to the fact that the devices used won’t need to be connected to many switches for there to be a network flow together with the efficiency of work. Having many switches powered on at the same time can be a hazard to any individuals life regardless of the age, considering it is in a hospital setting not to mention many people pass by to get medication not knowing the possible risks when coming into contact with the switches. With VLAN it’s possible to connect as many devices as one would wish at the same time onto the same switch effortlessly. With that, it would be easier to focus on other vital matters being that fewer switches require less management. Additionally, it will prevent accidents and emergencies if by any chance someone gets into contact with it and damages it. The switch features like the VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP), make it manageable to administer VLANs in any network environment.

     VLANs get considered to be pocket-friendly compared to purchasing Ethernet port switches. In the past decades, if an individual wanted different network traffic for the various hospital departments in the building, it was necessary for them to purchase Ethernet switches. And by any chance all the departments have enough computers which will use all the available ports on Ethernet switches, there won’t be any cost saving compared to using VLANs as there will be a waste of many ports. However, by use of VLAN, all the hospital departments would be able to make use of only one switch, and each department would have its network traffic. These reduce both time and money that may be used fixing up the switches and also, their maintenance cost is high compared to VLANs maintenance Furthermore, it will create a safe environment for individuals since they won’t be affected in case an emergency occurs.

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