Submitted by Ann Ness, League Observer
Chair Steve Delzer called the early Board meeting to order at 4:08 p.m. instead of its usual 6:30 p.m. meeting time. He welcomed Vern Lougheed, Diector of Information Systems to the meeting. The minutes of 10/27/05 were approved.
Mary Crow presented the Emergency Management Plan which had no substantive changes and was easily approved.
Ken Bank brought forward a proposal for the construction of a new computer room with redundant cooling and power. He said that it had been "quite a summer." The present computer room cannot sustain the
current system. There is not enough space and there needs to be additional cooling in case, as has happened, the cooling is shut down. Roger Stapek said that when the present building was built, the Hospital didn't know what was going to be needed. Vern Lougheed wasn't yet hired. They were designing for needs of 2002 versus where they are today with the addition of Meditech. The old system had no environmental processes. Meditech required air conditioning. Then Vern went over the highlights. He said the major issues were 3 outages in the last year. The last was due to the cooling system failing and the temperature rose to 100 degrees which affected the computer. No data was available to staff while the computer was down. It wasn't a design flaw in Meditech. Vern said the Hospital has 250 PCs now, but by 2006, there will be 406. The growth of computers has exploded. He asked, "What is the acceptable level of downtime?" The answer was two hours for scheduled maintenance. There are 4 simple fixes: cooling; power source; space (a huge issue
