http://sun.systemnews.com Healthcare http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/108/4/Healthcare/17744 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/108/4/Healthcare/17743 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/108/4/Healthcare/17706 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/108/4/Healthcare/17721 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/108/4/Healthcare/17737 Health Level Seven (HL7) released a new standard for electronic health records that has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/105/5/Healthcare/17329 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/105/5/Healthcare/17330 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/105/5/Healthcare/17306 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 StorageTekTM T9940B tape drive and Sun StorageTekTM ACSLS Library Manager software to improve the speed of backing up data. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/105/5/Healthcare/17307 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/105/5/Healthcare/17312 A software portfolio from Kodak called the Carestream Information Management Solutions combined with Sun's new StorageTekTM 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.