General Hospitals Network Models for the support of E-Health Applications

Rising costs in healthcare, increased global competitions and rapid advances in networking and telecommunications promise to close the gaps between digital enterprising technologies and healthcare services delivery. Yet, end-to-end performance depends on applications, servers, and network relationships that are not always obvious. The research presented in this paper examines the requirements of E-health applications from a telecommunication point of view by studying end-to-end network performance within and between three hospitals in the Central-West region of Ontario. First, a definition of traffic profiles and applications is established. Then, hospitals LANs are configured and simulated to support nominal and peak traffic loads.