Distribution plans for data will indicate which type of network architecture needs to be employed to benefit the healthcare organization and this network architecture will specify how workstations and computers will be installed/linked together through network servers and communication lines; the following points need to be taken into consideration as they affect such installations [5]: • Central mainframe architecture • Client/server architecture • File/Server architecture • Distributed processing architecture There are many benefits of networking within a clinica...

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Intranet is an internal organizational Internet that is guarded against outside access by a special security feature called a firewall (which can be software, hardware or a combination of the two). The primary characteristic of an intranet is that people outside the organization can't access it. E...

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In the past, Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been in the dark ages with regards to the "paper shuffle." Patient records, clinical notes, test results, phone messages, physician orders, faxes, and many items were recorded and transmitted by paper. This process was not only costly, but very ...

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Although the adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems has grown in recent years, both patients and physicians still have concerns about the security and privacy of EHRs (Sage Healthcare, 2011). In fact, 81% of patients interviewed and 62% of doctors are concerned about EHRs (Sage Healthcare, 2011). Physician skepticism may explain why only 10% of office-based physician practices have implemented a fully functioning EHR system (Sage Healthcare, 2011). Despite such skepticism, President Obama based on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 expects hospitals a...

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For instance, the implementation of educational web servers in Kosovo, established with satellite links just a few months after conflict had ceased, allowed local physicians to gain access to current literature and websites in place of their 10 year old journal collection (Edworthy, 2001). ...

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