Methodology to measure the quality of service in healthcare information and telecommunications infrastructures

• Autorzy: Babulak E.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The telecommunications industry in last decade went through the dramatic changes motivated by mobility, wireless technologies and miniaturization. The continuous increase in the complexity and the heterogeneity of healthcare telecommunications infrastructures requires reliable methodology to assess the quality of service provision. This article presents a cost effective methodology to assess the user's perception of quality of service provision utilizing the existing Staffordshire University network by adding a component of measurement to the existing model presented by Walker. This paper offers a cost effective approach to assess the QoS provision within the University campus network, which could be easily adapted to any campus network or healthcare organization in the world.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

user's perception of quality of service; assessment methodology; electronic health record; healthcare telecommunications infrastructures; Staffordshire University network communications infrastructure

• Wydawca: Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology
• Rocznik: 2005
• Tom: nr 4
• Strony: 133--138
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 12 poz., rys.

Twórcy

autor

Babulak E.

• Faculty of Computing and Engineering Technology, Staffordshire University, Beaconside, Stafford, ST18 0DG, United Kingdom,

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