  During the process of medical information system development, resource
awareness is neglected. It is often assumed that the underlying hardware will
always have enough memory, processing power, and network bandwidth.
Unfortunately, this approach seems not so feasible in every case, and these
assumptions, if proven wrong, will harm the initial development run, a later
system upgrade, and life cycle in general. This paper aims to raise a resource
awareness problem that could still influence all information system deployment
and maintenance steps. As an example, we described the influence of the general
hardware and network limitations on the information system design,
functionality update process, and external system integration. Our research
results are a set of guidelines that should be applied to support resource
awareness, as an important part of the system design.
