Geisinger Health Systems upgraded its IT environment with a Sun StorageTek tape solution that strengthened the organization's regulatory compliance while improving performance and data integrity at its primary and remote datacenter sites. The new back up and recovery solution stores and encrypts healthcare records from its mainframe system for more than two million patients.
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The Sun white paper "Identity and Access Management: Enabling HIPAA/HITECH Compliance" explores the requirements that healthcare organizations and vendors face as they become more reliant on digital information technology and the need to comply with increasing regulatory requirements, which presents a range of challenges. Author Mark Dixon includes best practices for implementing identity management systems that help ensure compliance, and shows how Sun’s pragmatic approach to identity management simplifies the technology environment.
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Medical device company TechniScan, Inc. is developing an automated breast ultrasound imaging system called SVARA to improve diagnosing and treating breast cancer. To bring its SVARA ultrasound technology to market faster, TechniScan has selected a Sun Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution architecture based on Sun's Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) and is engaged with Sun to provide expert implementation services.
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The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is an open technology platform using Sun's open source software to connect federal government agencies and health information exchanges via NHIN-CONNECT - a software enabling interoperability across the healthcare sector. "Our progress with the NHIN shows that President Obama's commitment to healthcare reform can become a reality quickly," said Joe Hartley, vice president of Global Government, Education and Healthcare for Sun. "Here we have the public and private sectors working together as a community to help realize this key vision."
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With Sun's Healthcare Industry practice anniversary being around the corner in July, updates on this focus group are detailed. Sun uses its resources to build architectures and solutions by partnering with the community to contribute value and to reduce overall cost and complexity with open-source-based technology.
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Barmer Ersatzkasse, Germany's largest health insurance fund, experienced a need to replace its mainframe-based applications with an open architecture and SAP software in order to ensure more flexible and cost-effective datacenter operations. The insuror opted for an architecture based on open systems including Sun servers, Sun storage solutions in a storage area network, Sun SAP service provisioning software and Sun virtualization technology.
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