Busan Adventist Hospital (BAH)

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BAH needed to upgrade its general office file system and PCs for medical and research personnel. Doctors had experienced serious virus problems with files downloaded from the Internet, and the hospital needed to reduce its enterprise-sized total cost of ownership by reducing the need for constant individual hardware and software upgrades.

To match increasing workloads, improve efficiency, and deliver higher-quality medical service, the hospital introduced a comprehensive information system based on Sun Ray Ultra-Thin Clients, Sun Fire servers, and Sun StorageTek. The Sun infrastructure enabled the hospital to reduce management costs, electricity use, and noise. In addition, the solution helped simplify IT administration and consolidate medical records, information, and picture archiving systems.

The server-based environment improved security, enabling staff to add applications without difficulty. It also proved cost-effective by increasing resource availability and decreasing the time needed for system management. By installing 100 Sun client terminals, the hospital reduced management costs by 50%, experienced less downtime, and eliminated the reset time needed to maintain individual PCs. As the BAH System Administrator explains, "It was very expensive to buy the software for each PC and to change it every other year. Introducing the Sun Ray 170 Ultra-Thin Client has meant advantages such as managing efficiently and reducing expenses."