HIMSS 2008 was certainly proof to the fact that Sun is gaining momentum in Healthcare. This is the third year in a row that we had a booth at HIMSS, and it was humming! One of our feature presentations was the model of a "blackbox".
We sold the first Blackbox to a hospital in The Netherlands, and I had a chance to meet an entire delegation of dutch hospital CIO's, among them the one who bought the Blackbox. Balckbox is basically a self contained data center in a shipping container - literally just connect it to water (for cooling), power and the Network, and off you go with a state of the art data center. Compare this to a year long process of building a multi million dollar facility - be it for the primary or the back up data center. Many Hospitals I visited stuff their IT in old storage rooms, where cooling and networking are problematic. That was exactly the reason this Hospital in The Netherlands will bold the Blackbox to a parking lot and save lots of money on re-modeling. We thought other CIOs might be interested and brought the black box model, and indeed had lots of inquiries.
Another exhibit that always draws lots of attention are the SunRays and care giver mobility, one of our focus areas.
This year, we added two mobile Sun Rays from Naturetech. Thet work just like the regular Sun Rays, which means they have a built in card reader, no hard disk and so on, and provide access on the go. You will see these mobile devices with our SunRay demo kit showing the Tolven open source EMR/PHR product, which runs fabulously on our hardware and open source software stack. Some of our partners were so excited about the Sun Ray that you could find it besides our own booth in different places at HIMSS 2008:
| Sayers Healthcare at the Avnet booth - they provide, among other things, a mobile medication cart solution. | AT&T, which recently won the contract to build out an eHealth system for the State of Tennessee, showed SunRays as delivery platform for an assortment of healthcare solutions, delivered as a service over the Network and a Covisint portal. |
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Of course, in order to turn an empty booth like this
into the innovation and technology hotbed for Healthcare IT, you need a fabulous team like this:
The lady in the picture, by the way, is our incredibly talented and resourceful Marketing Manager, Ambre Chevalier.
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