Critical Health Critical Health Networking Networking Life & death - Availability must be better than ATMs! Response Times - Lab tests image results Security - Patient confidentiality Quality of Service - Admin to X-Rays Cost - Health IT& T investment low, but
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Critical Health NetworkingCritical Health Networking
Life & death - Availability must be better than ATMs!
Response Times - Lab tests image results
Security - Patient confidentiality
Quality of Service - Admin to X-Rays
Cost - Health IT& T investment low, but supports major systems
Tyranny of distanceTyranny of distance
Queensland has a:
• Distributed population
• Relatively small population centres
• Changing economy
but must provide cost effective services to all communities
ServicesServices
• Consultations
• Expert diagnosis
• Hospitals
• GPs
• Labs
• Patient record
BandwidthBandwidth
• Health market share 15%
• May grow to 20% by 2004 (Besley)
• Current predictions based are for known applications.
• Unknown impact of medical imaging, mainstream video, electronic patient records
1 2 3 4 5
1
10
100
1000
Bandwidth Usage over Time
Health
Video/Imaging
Internet
Network InfrastructureNetwork Infrastructure
QoS
IP Services
Traffic Mix
Transport
Bit rate
Interfaces
50 min/yr - 99.99% Downtime
Cost
< 5 min/yr - 99.999%
Soft - Bandwidth Hard - Virtual Circuits
ATM, SONET, WDM
Increasing
Ethernet, FR, ATM
Data with Voice
10Mbps to 1Gbps 34 Mbps to 40 Gbps
5 to 50 50 to 500 +
Dominant
Voice with Data
High Low
Topology
TechnologiesTechnologies
Queensland Health Service Delivery Network will use:
• Generally available carriage (ATM, Clear Channel)
• Multiple carriers• ATM Switches
to provide a Switched Backbone Network (SBN)
Health Business IssuesHealth Business Issues
JUST A FEW!
• Cost Control
• New Applications -New processes
• Main streaming telehealth
• Rationalisation of IT Infrastructure
• Developing partnerships
Network FuturesNetwork Futures
Content FuturesContent FuturesHealth - • imaging, telehealth, electronic records.