Assignment: Interconnecting 10 healthcare facilities

Your organization has been given the assignment of interconnecting 10 healthcare facilities in the Gainesville Florida area. These facilities are owned by individual practices which report to a master practice for Gainesville. Sunshine Health Corporation is requiring that these facilities be interconnected for ease of operation and direct reporting of inventory, personnel records, and financial records. It is your job to develop an implementation plan to address inventory control electronically to provide direct results. Corporate has suggested a tablet type device that can connect wirelessly within the facilities and send data directly to the facilities’ primary computer, the master practice systems, and corporate. Corporate has provided these handheld devices to the facilities. They can work through a WiFi connection. It is your job to ensure connectivity of these devices to the facilities computer systems, making sure they populate the right programs. You’ll also ensure transmission to the master practice office and corporate. At the present time all work is sent through fax or is sent through the mail.

Develop a one page executive summary with network diagram that would be sent to the master practice office and corporate. Is important that this is a cost effective approach. Something such as high speed Internet, FiOS, Uverse, cable, or a business class Internet Service is acceptable.

The assignment should be 1-2 pages of content not counting title page, reference page or appendices (diagrams, budget sheet, equipment list, etc.). Please cite the sources that you used to support and strengthen your presentation using APA format.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.