Intelligent healthcare computing and networking

There is need for providing proper quality of service (QoS) and security to healthcare traffic in the network in a healthcare environment. In addition, there is need for global visibility of healthcare related communications or transactions between various entities (applications, information systems and devices). There are three major factors that make this challenging: 1) healthcare network traffic is shared by other non-healthcare traffic, 2) there are plethora of healthcare information systems, devices and modalities with respective plethora of protocols and message formats, 3) healthcare network with its wide varieties of information systems, devices and modalities may be widely distributed (across various departments and wide-area network segments). To provide proper QoS and security in the midst of these challenges we bring healthcare application protocol and message related intelligence in the network, thus creating a logical overlay network (we call IHON: Intelligent Healthcare Overlay Network).