Factors Affecting Processing Power and Bandwidth

The combination of carefully projected user numbers, well established application demands and a scalable architecture provides strong evidence to mitigate hazards relating to poor system performance. 

Determining the required network bandwidth and architecture is a skilled and complex task. Healthcare organisations often choose to work with reputable partners to install wired or wireless network infrastructnre specific to their requirements. The analysis and design activities which take place around this provide good evidence for performance related controls. 

Similarly the specification of client workstations can also impact the perceived performance at the user interface. In the trend to move to cloud-based architectures the amount of processing undertaken by the client machine is often quite small. However this cannot be assumed and it important that healthcare organisations ensure that local technology meets the minimum specification provided by the manufacturer. Organisations should take into account the fact that client machines could be simultaneously running other software which could compete for processing power. 

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