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Sun StorageTek Infrastructure Helps Healthcare Provider Achieve 30% Faster Backup

2010-02-08T17:00:00+01:00

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.

Meeting HIPAA/HITECH Compliance Requirements with Sun Solutions

2010-01-15T17:00:00+01:00

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.

Java CAPS Selected to Develop Integrated Healthcare Services

2010-01-07T17:00:00+01:00

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.

Nationwide Health Information Network Relies on Sun's Open Source Software

2009-04-08T16:00:00+01:00

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."

Sun Healthcare Industry Practice Update - March 2009

2009-04-03T16:00:00+01:00

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.

Barmer Ersatzkasse Replaces Mainframe Applications with Open Architecture, SAP Software

2008-09-08T16:00:00+01:00

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.

RFID Training Course Available for Pharmaceutical Industry

2007-02-28T17:00:00+01:00

Sun will be offering training in RFID technology for the pharmaceutical industry on April 18, 2007. The training session will be held at the Sun APT Labs in Longmont, Colorado.

Joerg Schwarz Interview on Sun's Priorities in IT for Healthcare Industry

2007-02-27T17:00:00+01:00

John Russell of Bio-ITWirld.com interviewed Joerg Schwarz, Sun's director of Healthcare and Life Sciences. Sun is in the midst of the challenge helping to solve the "digitization of healthcare" by providing "technology, standards, software, hardware and middleware," Schwarz said.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity Upgrades on Sun

2007-02-26T17:00:00+01:00

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC) recently upgraded its IT infrastructure in order to manage the 50 million pounds it needs annually to support the hospital. The charity wanted to increase staff productivity and efficiency to enable higher fund raising goal; improve the donor experience; and remove functional silos. The results promise the delivery of all the expectations current at the outset.

Healthcare Focus: Sun Net Talk on Solutions for Secure, Digital Care Flow in Health IT

2007-02-26T17:00:00+01:00

Tune in to the Sun Net Talk to hear about the latest solutions for a secure, high-performance IT network used for healthcare data. This talk features Joerg Schwarz, Director, Sun Healthcare and Life Sciences; and Ambre Chevalier, Healthcare Marketing Manager.

Health IT Standard Approved by American National Standards Institute

2007-02-26T17:00:00+01:00

Health Level Seven (HL7) released a new standard for electronic health records that has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

RSNA Show Provides Sun a Chance to Showcase Healthcare Solutions

2006-11-28T17:00:00+01:00

At the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2006 event in Chicago, Sun showcased its solutions for the healthcare industry and announced how some new customers are putting Sun technology to use. The Karmanos Cancer Institute (KCI) in Detroit recently adopted a Sun StorageTek solution for its file-based clinical applications archive.

Chicago's Rush University Medical Center Selects Sun to Build Patient Record System

2006-11-28T17:00:00+01:00

In Chicago, Illinois, Rush University Medical Center recently upgraded its patient information system by taking advantage of Sun hardware discount promotions and other Sun technology. Their Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system requires a robust IT infrastructure to support it and make it available every day of the year, every minute of the day.

Data Backup Speed Increased for Greenville Hospital System with Sun Storage Solution

2006-11-27T17:00:00+01:00

One of the requirements of HIPAA is that medical data be available and protected. When the Greenville Hospital System (GHS) of South Carolina needed to upgrade its storage backup systems to comply with HIPAA, they selected Sun StorageTek T9940B tape drive and Sun StorageTek ACSLS Library Manager software to improve the speed of backing up data.

Better Care at Reduced Costs: Result of Mobile Caregiver Solution from Sun at University of Alabama

2006-11-27T17:00:00+01:00

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Services (UAB) wanted to improve the delivery of patient information across their large clinical care setting while maintaining privacy of patient data. They selected Sun Fire servers, Sun Java System software and Sun Ray thin clients to aggregate information from disparate systems and keep the costs of their desktop systems down.

Improved Access to Medical Imaging with Sun StorageTek 5800 Storage System and Kodak Carestream

2006-11-27T17:00:00+01:00

A software portfolio from Kodak called the Carestream Information Management Solutions combined with Sun's new StorageTek 5800 storage system (formerly known as Project Honeycomb) will soon be available to healthcare IT managers. The combination of Sun storage and Kodak software will improve the performance of access to radiologic images and archiving of images.

Sun and TeraMedica Help Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Care

2006-05-15T16:00:00+01:00

There is now a solution that enables caregivers to securely share patient-centric digital content electronically over the network. Evercore from TeraMedica on the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) allows physicians to attach medical images to a patient's existing electronic health record (EHR) and then access them from the desktop.

Java ME Technology Links Patients to Caregivers Via Cell Phones

2006-05-15T16:00:00+01:00

Java Champion Fabiane Bizinella Nardon who represented last year's Duke's Choice award winner, the City of São Paulo Integrated Patient Scheduling System, recently discussed a ground breaking application that uses Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) technology to link patients to their caregivers through their cell phones.

Healthcare Providers Move Increasingly to Sun IT Infrastructure

2006-03-27T17:00:00+01:00

Geisinger Health System recently selected Sun to power several major components of its Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) in Pennsylvania. Initially, the Geisinger RHIO will connect three area hospitals, enabling them to electronically share health information and laboratory results. Plans are to expand the network up to eight additional health systems within three years.

Sun Acquisitions Promote Developments in Healthcare IT Infrastructure

2006-03-27T17:00:00+01:00

With its acquisition of SeeBeyond and StorageTek, Sun placed itself into a position to offer healthcare institutions end-to-end infrastructure solutions. Such current issues as health record portability, digitization of hard-copy medical images and continuity of care are more easily managed with the healthcare IT infrastructure that is now part of Sun's product family.

Sun to Help Build Nationwide Health Information Network Architecture

2005-12-05T17:00:00+01:00

Sun has been selected to join a consortium to facilitate the development of a prototype for a nationwide health information network architecture designed to help support a secure, standards-compliant framework for the nationwide exchange of electronic health records. This architecture is a step in realizing an interoperable electronic health record for every American.

Healthcare Industry Moves Toward RFID Adoption

2005-12-05T17:00:00+01:00

A recent survey of healthcare organizations reported an increasing number are adopting radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to help in ensuring safety across the industry, cited an RFID Journal article by Jonathan Collins. The "RFID in Healthcare Survey" reported 70 percent of respondents noted patient safety as the key benefit to deploying RFID.

Sun Solution Helps Meet HIPAA National Provider ID Requirement

2005-12-05T17:00:00+01:00

The iProvider Global Identifier is a newly released composite application-based services offering based on the Sun Java Integration Suite (formerly the SeeBeyond ICAN Suite) and designed for the healthcare industry. This solution enables the integration and intelligent matching of multiple provider identification numbers.

Helping Bridge the Healthcare Digital Divide

2005-11-21T17:00:00+01:00

In early November, Sun participated in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) 2005 Blue Health IT Symposium in Orlando, Fla., where it showcased its technologies and solutions, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and the Sun Java Integration Suite, among others.

Sun RFID Industry Solution for Drug Authentication

2005-11-21T17:00:00+01:00

The Sun RFID Industry Solution for Drug Authentication is a combination of software, hardware and services designed to address the specific requirements of the pharmaceutical industry by verifying a drug package's validity and authenticity as it moves through the supply chain, from the manufacturer to the hands of the consumer at the point-of-sale.

From Healthcare to Manufacturing: The Sun Java System Application Server Meets Needs of OEMs

2004-04-26T16:00:00+01:00

Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in different industries have elected to build the Web Services they offer to their customers on the Sun Java System Application Server. One of the OEMs is AccessPt., a developer of Internet technology-based software solutions serving the healthcare field.

Take Your Pulse with your Phone: Sun and MedicTouch Solution

2004-04-26T16:00:00+01:00

Sun and MedicTouch have introduced Pulse Meter, a mobile health solution for Java technology-enabled mobile phones. With the MedicTouch Pulse Meter, a person can connect a sensor to their hand and see their pulse rate displayed on the phone screen.

"HIPAA Security Implementation" Book from SANS Institute

2004-04-26T16:00:00+01:00

The SANS Institute offers security training and resources such as the book, "HIPAA Security Implementation." The book is part of the "Step-By-Step" series and is geared toward I. staff of hospitals of all sizes. SANS will also have a one-day training course on HIPAA.

Prime Clinical Systems Unveils OnSTAFF and WebSTAFF Solutions

2004-03-22T17:00:00+01:00

Prime Clinical Systems introduced its two new software solutions, OnSTAFF and WebSTAFF, during the recent 2004 Annual HIMSS Conference & Exhibition. Both solutions were developed in the Java programming language.

Electronic Medical Recordkeeping Takes a Giant Step

2004-03-22T17:00:00+01:00

Brian Reid, reporting for Health-IT World News, has uncovered two reasons behind the reluctance of physicians to invest in healthcare technology: cost and the absence of standards. Both issues are finally being addressed by HL7 and AAFP.