SunOpenRx Framework

The SunOpenRx Framework is the end-to-end solution for the healthcare industry. A collection of highly scalable, open-platform technologies, the Sun OpenRx Framework allows customers to modify or build robust, highly secure network computing environments that can leverage heterogeneous legacy systems, along with new Web-based services, applications, and devices.

Rapid industry change, corporate consolidation, and technological advancements have left many healthcare organizations with complex IT environments. Most offer varying levels of data integration, performance, scalability, and security. As global trends demand integrated Web-based services, companies are faced with replacing legacy technologies or finding effective ways to secure them across the enterprise.

Afford the Past While Investing in the Future

The SunOpenRx Framework is the end-to-end solution for the healthcare industry. A collection of highly scalable, open-platform technologies, the Sun OpenRx Framework allows customers to modify or build robust, highly secure network computing environments that can leverage heterogeneous legacy systems, along with new Web-based services, applications, and devices.

One Platform for Business and Technology

The Sun OpenRx Framework components are designed to meet the health industry's business and technical requirements. The framework offers world-class offerings from Sun Microsystems and alliance partners.

Hospitals, integrated delivery networks, government agencies, health insurance companies, systems integrators, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and software vendors can employ framework components to help reduce costs and complexity, while boosting performance and services.

Access Management Promotes Secure Mobility

Addressing the requirement for positive and secure person identification across organizations, framework technologies offer features such as enterprise master person indexes, duplicate record checking, federated identification, and secure user authentication.

Web and Application Services

Integrate IT assets and services across the network using OpenRx. It offers secure, scalable portals, distributed Web-based services, and application-to-application integration using health industry messaging standards.

Messaging and Collaboration Services

Boost communication across the enterprise using standards-based electronic data interchange, secure messaging, and calendaring. Web-based Software Development Platform Javatechnologies offer a comprehensive environment that can reduce development cycles for robust solutions including desktops, servers, mobile computing devices, health cards, and 2-D and 3-D imaging applications. Provisioning and Systems Administration

Make the most of legacy assets and third-party resources by selecting components that support network resource allocation, computing grids, redundant configurations, configurable archive policies, shared file access, and storage scalability up to 252 terabytes.

Hardware Built on Open-platform Standards Unlike competitive offerings, Sun hardware supports multiple operating systems, is Internet ready, and offers high levels of scalability, reliability, security, and performance.

More Choices Through Third-Parties

Currently, there are over 100 pre-qualified technologies from alliance partners, including the Sun Partner Community. Health Industry Model Architectures Sun OpenRx Framework model architectures include community health information infrastructures, disease and bio-surveillance grids, outcomes and research data warehouses, Java health cards, medical imaging grids, patient health networks, real-time healthcare enterprises, smart medical supply networks, and ePrescriber networks.

Sun OpenRx Components

Meet changing requirements, help reduce costs, and boost performance by choosing from integrateable components that include 2-D and 3-D medical imaging APIs, application servers, ASC X.12N transaction processing, biometric authentication and identification, connector builders, database management systems, drug reference databases, desktop office productivity, disease surveillance technologies, ebXML registries, e-mail, calendaring, collaboration services, embedded services, enterprise master patient indexes, federated network identification, graphics accelerators and boards, grid computing, HL7 message interchange, integration servers, Java technologies, medical terminology and imaging access services, MUMPS to Web services, NCPDP services, office productivity, operating systems (Solarisand Linux), portal servers, provisioning, policy management, RFID, servers, storage management and devices, thin clients, virtualization, Web servers, workstations, and XML services