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

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10

100

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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.

Education -• Distance teaching & learning, peer support.

Culture -• Access to cultural centres, collaboration.

Industry -• Tourism, primary industries.

Government -• On - line services, information.