The introduction of advanced networking technologies into the health care system promises to assist with improving the performance of health care professionals by enhancing the capture and retrieval of health information, increasing the utilization of health care resources and enhancing the experience of patients at the point of care. The objective behind this project is to develop a model that is capable of describing the expected data traffic demands that are generated at various locations within a health care organization. This model will serve as a tool for assisting network engineers with the deployment of an efficient network architecture that can meet the expected demands within and between health care facilities.

In order to develop our traffic model, it was necessary to have a detailed understanding of the working behavior of clinicians and of the expected traffic requirements that may arise from their daily tasks. The main conclusions derived from several interviews with a group of clinicians will be presented, along with a stochastic model for the expected traffic, based on our findings from the interviews. We further present an alternative model based on some acquired mobility traces of clinicians, and show how it may be used to describe the expected network traffic at the various locations. Our presentation will be concluded with a brief outline of the future steps needed to be taken in the project.