Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Protocols

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Protocols

Michelle C Smith

NTC/362

1/25/2014

John Ho

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital has proudly been serving the community since 1975. During those eras of the company’s creation, technology was not as advanced as it is now. Majority of patient’s information was kept in several charts. Patient information was stored on paper, from the 70s to the 90s. In today’s society, things have changed. Computers have become a major part of the whole hospital experience. Nurses are charting on computers, while the aspect of paper charts has been removed. Since computers are now highly used, various protocols and other items are used to make sure data is successfully transmitted over a network that could feature more than a 1,000 users.

Patton-Fuller Community Hospital Data Transmit

Patton-Fuller has several units across one network, ranging from the Intensive Care Unit and Operating Rooms to Human Resources and Finance. In order to transmit all of the data going in and out of the network, Patton-Fuller uses the network structure of 1000 BaseT and 1000 BaseF for the entire hospital area.

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1000BASE-T is Gigabit Ethernet (1 gigabit is 1000 megabits per second) on copper cables; using four pairs of Category 5 unshielded twisted pair to achieve the gigabit data rate. A big advantage of 1000BASE-T is that existing copper cabling can be used instead of having to rewire with optical fiber, (Apollo Group).

BASE-T contains a cable that has Category 5 twisted together, ("Search Networking"). This style of cable is designed for companies who have data that will be sent over a long distance. For example, if a patient comes in the ER and is admitted to the hospital; the nurse in the ER charts on the patient. The patient is than taken up to ICU to be observed. Due to the 1000BASE-T, the nurse in ICU is able to pull up that same chart without waiting on the computer to catch up.

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