The newest opportunities in healthcare start with information.
Healthcare
The future of healthcare looks bright. It's a world where technology comes to the aid of everyone -- not just patients and practitioners but also labs, clinics, hospitals, insurers, administrators, and data centers. We see the healthcare environment of tomorrow as an integrated community where needed information flows seamlessly across departments, facilities, regions, and even nations, and where medical records are in the right hands at the precise moment they're needed. At Sun, our solutions make that vision a reality.
OEM for Healthcare
Sun's OEM program makes it easy to do business with us with an enhanced set of offerings, plus an expanded global OEM sales engagement and delivery model.
Latest Customer Success
Denver Health
Colorado’s primary safety-net health organization began replacing 1,500 PCs with Sun Ray 2 and 270 virtual display clients. Faster logins offer the potential to increase the number of patient sessions by more than 1,000 per year, and electricity savings of up to $130,000 have been calculated based on a model from Xcel Energy.
Barmer Ersatzkasse
Germany’s largest health insurance company was at the limits of its mainframe capacity and needed to move to open systems with new SAP and health insurance applications. It turned to Sun for servers, storage, automated provisioning software and services to make smooth work of a complex transition in just four months.
University Hospital rechts der Isar
This Munich-based university medical center exploited the power of virtualization to reduce costs and provide medical personnel access to critical information from anywhere in the hospital using a smart card and a password. »See All
Sun Partners in Healthcare
Echoworx
Echoworx Demonstrates Commitment to Healthcare Through
email encryption solution for Healthcare Professionals. (PDF) Vignette Corporation
Vignette's Healthcare Imaging and Workflow solution with infrastructure and data management technology from Sun, provides clinical users with access to a comprehensive patient record.
Spotlight
Healthcare Enterprise Storage, Archival and Retrieval
Healthcare Enterprises must develop data storage archival and retrieval strategies that enable compliance with regulatory procedures while delivering cost-effective data storage backup and security needs for Picture Archiving and Communication (PACS) vendor solutions. Sun Delivers Caregiver Mobility with Security
Health care costs are putting an enormous strain on our economy. And, despite the soaring costs, the quality and efficiency of our system is not improving. » Resources Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Learn more about Sun SOA Solutions for Healthcare.
News
Province Of British Columbia Selects SUN To Build And Implement Provincial Electronic Health Record System
The government of British Columbia has selected Sun Microsystems (B.C.) Inc., a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc., and a consortium of partners to develop and implement a comprehensive electronic healthcare solution that will transform the way laboratory results and other essential patient information is securely shared amongst healthcare practitioners across the province. Sun and TeraMedica Help Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Care
TeraMedica's Evercore solution, running on the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite, allows physicians to attach medical images such as X-rays and MRI scans, as well as other clinical digital content, to a patient's existing electronic health record (EHR) and then easily access them from the desktop.
Events
IHE European Connectathon
Oxford, U.K. April 7-11, 2008 IHE provides a detailed implementation and testing process to promote the adoption of standards-based interoperability by vendors and users of healthcare information systems. Sun will demonstrate its technology advances in the Connectathon, a weeklong interoperability-testing event. eHealth 2008
Vancouver, Canada May 4-7, 2008 Sun will showcase our technology solution enabling the electronic healthcare record at booth #906 and will be hosting our second HIAL (Health Information Access Layer) Provincial Architects workshop and roundtable discussion featuring physicians in Canada. Healthcare CIO Summit
Laguna Beach, California May 5 -7, 2008 Featuring over 60 C-level executives from North America’s leading healthcare organizations and hospitals, the summit provides a forum for discussion on the key topics driving the industry forward.
