The Sun™ Virtual Desktop Solution at the WHIT 2007

Sun MicrosystemsIn the frames of the upcoming World of Health IT Conference 2007 Sun™ Microsystems will be presenting the Sun™ Virtual Desktop Solution - Caregiver mobility with security. The Sun™ Virtual Desktop Solution addresses healthcare desktop challenges by providing caregiver information mobility with security. The Sun solution starts with virtualizing complete desktop environments and installing them in the datacenter where they can be secured, managed, and maintained. Now, a few servers can be managed instead of hundreds or thousands of desktop devices.

With the Sun Virtual Desktop Solution, IT staff can provision desktops and applications to end users who are assigned appropriate access rights based on individual or group criteria. Access to these desktops is provided by either Sun Ray™ technology, Sun Secure Global Desktop Software, or a combination of both.

As a stateless client needing no configuring, the Sun Ray virtual display client is an ideal choice for healthcare. And the utilization of smart cards ensures quick access to desktop sessions from any Sun Ray client on the network. The addition of Sun Secure Global Desktop Software provides secure, browser-based access to the same Windows XP session from a wide range of client devices, including Windows desktops, Apple Macs, other thin clients, and even Windows personal digital assistants (PDAs). Sun Secure Global Desktop Software also provides access to any legacy UNIX®, Linux, Windows, AS/400, or mainframe applications.

More and more, healthcare workers require mobile and remote access to information and applications so that they can provide better client care, reduce medical errors, and lower the cost of delivering efficient services. Rewriting applications for Web delivery is not only costly and time-consuming, it can strip away familiar user interfaces, making applications difficult to use. The Sun Virtual Desktop Solution utilizes familiar interfaces for applications and desktops, so there is no need to retrain users, and log ons take seconds and not minutes in an environment where time is a critical component of care.

Compliance also poses significant challenges. Regional and national regulatory requirements affect how healthcare organizations deliver information, update and maintain their systems, control access to data, ensure security, and simplify business processes.

Regulatory compliance
Increasingly strict privacy and information access make tracking network usage and activity essential. The Sun Virtual Desktop Solution's extensive auditing and reporting features, available through Sun Secure Global Desktop Software, streamline compliance tasks and reduce the risk of noncompliance. IT staff can set privileges and access policies and maintain thorough records for each. Sun Secure Global Desktop Software makes tracking and reporting all user activity easier through complete logging, session monitoring, and session control features that provide full accountability for system users.

Security
Ironclad security is essential to keeping patient data private and safe. With Sun Ray Software and Sun Secure Global Desktop Software installed on servers running the Solaris™ Operating System, the Sun Virtual Desktop Solution capitalizes on all inherent features: security, scalability, and reliability. Furthermore, the three-tiered architecture provides an added layer of protection against malicious attacks to the datacenter. The solution employs leading dual-factor authentication mechanisms, such as RSA SecurID, and integrates with LDAP, directory services, Microsoft Windows Domains, and UNIX passwords.

Availability
The Sun Virtual Desktop Solution provides always-on mobile and point-of-care access for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals on the move, in surgery, at the bedside, or even at home, reducing the time it takes to access critical data. The Solution's resumability feature allows a user to stop using a desktop or application at any time on one device and then resume the session later on a different device, without session interruption or loss of data. As an added benefit, mobile application access reduces manual data entry and associated human error that can affect the integrity of patient data, all while providing caregivers the ability to move about the hospital, clinic, or even through regional offices.

Cost savings
By centralizing application administration, the Sun Virtual Desktop Solution reduces the overhead associated with PC-based upgrades and refresh cycles. It accelerates the training of new staff and eliminates the retraining of existing employees. Because desktops and applications are Web-based and accessible from a variety of devices, multiple workstations are no longer needed, reducing capital expenses as well as maintenance and support costs. The Sun Ray client uses only 4 watts of electricity, helping to reduce the electricity requirements and making it an eco-friendly choice.

Why should your healthcare organization adopt a Sun Virtual Desktop Solution?
With the Sun Virtual Desktop Solution, healthcare professionals gain secure, flexible, and rapid access to desktops and applications while retaining familiar interfaces and reducing the need for costly and time-consuming retraining.

  • Increase employee efficiency by providing instant, flexible access to desktops and applications from any device or platform
  • Allow IT departments to consolidate the network infrastructure and create a centrally managed computing environment
  • Provide secure delivery of sensitive data over any network
  • Improve and maintain regulatory compliance
  • Reduce deployment and maintenance costs through network-based desktop and application access

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