A Day in the life of a Clinician
Hi All,
I've been doing lots of work with hospitals over the past couple of years with both our Sun Ray thin clients and Secure Global Desktop. It's amazed me how appropriate this technologies are in a Hospital type of environment. Even if the hospital runs nothing but Windows it is still and excellent and cost effective solution which is easily integratable into many Hospital IT environments.
Issues not being able to have PC's near beds and in EU units as they are not compliant to medical instrumenation standards and can interfer with Medical Equipment. Only having PC's at the ward reception areas and nurses having their passwords written on their monitor so that is a doctor needs that PC urgently then can unlock their screen so that they can log out of their Windows desktop so that the doctors can log back in, start their applications and get access to their information. This means in an emergency it could take a doctor a few minutes to get a patients details on screen or even the paperfiles, as opposed to seconds in a Sun Ray environment.
You could do this with a PC but there if soo much earth leakage and the fans in the power supplies can propogate airborne bacteria and the EMF could interfere with crucial medical equipment, that it can't be done. This is why you don't see PC's all over hospitals as there aren't many places that you can have a PC without effecting equipment. Sun Ray's have been tested and are way below medical equipment standards with relatition to EMF and Earth Leakage. Also not having any fans means they cannot propogate any airborne creepy crawlies.
Also for things such as Xray terminals. Normal XRay terminals cost up to $20000 Australian (if not more). Sun Ray's can do upto 1920x1200 resolutions at 32bit colour, and you can even run 2 monitors off of one unit. You could run 2 x 24: LCD monitors off of one Sun Ray. No other thin client can do this kinds of resolutions.
Also being able to access you desktop from anywhere in the world via a Web Browser. Sun Secure Global Desktop has this capablity, plus you can integrate it with a Sun Ray environment so that your Windows sessions can move from the Sun Ray to the SGD session upon connection. True Global Mobility.
So I wanted to write a story about how Sun's desktop technologies can change the way hospitals work.
Comes into the hosptial and goes to their office or staff room. Plugs their smartcard in, logs in and checks their email, appointments etc.. opens up some Hospital Information System Applications like PiMs, maybe their XRay applications like Agfa, etc.. Then they go and do their rounds...
They go into the wards and to visit Mr Brown so they plug their smartcard into the Sun Ray at his bedside and enter the password to disable the screenlock that was turned on when he removed his smartcard in the office and there he has access into PiMs already logged in, enter the patients name and his records are there within 10sec. He needs to check their XRays so he logs into the Agfa application and gets the patients XRays. Then he removes his smartcard and goes around finishing his rounds.
Then all of a sudden there is an emergency.. he has to rush to the Emergency Unit as someone has come in unconcious, and the doctors need to act now. The clinician then inserts their smartcard into the Sun Ray at the EU and plugs in the patients name and he has his records, and he finds out within 10 sec that the patient is allergic to penicillin. Luckily he checked as they were about to administer penicillin to the patient and that would have killed him. Patient is stable so he is able to go back to his/her office and checks, finish paperwork and so on.
The next day he goes into another hospital and plugs his smartcard into the Sun Ray there, puts in his password and he has all his applications there ready for use, no need to log in again and restart all his applications.
In the afternoon he goes to his private clinic and he has a Sun Ray there and plugs his smartcard in and he had access to his session there.
At the end of the day he goes home, and he doesn't have a Sun Ray there he just has a Windows PC. All of a sudden he gets a call that one of his patients has come into the EU and is not in a good state. The doctor then goes to his PC starts a Web Browser and logs into Sun Secure Global Desktop and starts a Windows sessions. His Windows session transfers from his Sun Ray at the hospital to his home PC via via the Web Browser. He then has instant access to PiMs to check on the patients history. Then he decides that he needs to go into the hospital, so he leaves and goes there. When he gets the EU, he puts his smartcard into a Sun Ray, logs into Windows and his Windows session that was using at home via Sun Secure Global Desktop has transferred back to the Sun Ray he is at, and has immediate access to his applications and the patients data that he had opened at home.
That afternoon he has to fly out so he goes home, picks up his bags and is waiting at the airport lounge. While he is called to check on a document that someone has emailed him. So he pulls out his Apple Notebook, fires up the web browser, logs into Sun Secure Global Desktop, and starts his Windows seesion, which has everything as he left it in the EU, so he reads his email, and logs off of Sun Secure Global Desktop.
And thats the end of the story... It is fictional and does sound like something very futuristic, but we have all the tools here now and have implemented this technology in Hospitals as well as in other industries such as Call Centres, Retail, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance, Bank Tellers, Airports, and so on.
The old excuses of why not to call Sun for desktop solutions:
1. They don't run Windows... WRONG!!!! We can run Windows Full Screen on a Sun Ray like a Windows Based Terminal, or run published applications.
2. Sun is too expensive... WRONG!!! Now with out AMD Opteron x4x00 servers and the new Sun Ray thin clients it is no longer an expensive proposition to go with Sun Ray. The x4x00 series servers are cheaper than you think, just check out the prices on http://www.sun.com
3. It's Windows and Sun won't support it... WRONG!!!! You could run the Sun Ray's on AMD Opteron servers, also Windows 2003 Terminal Server on the same type of boxes, run Sun Ray thin clients and Secure Global Desktop, and you have a total desktop infrastructure that is supported by Sun, every component including Windows Server support on our x4x00 range of servers. We are the only vendor who can support full solutions like these as we own all the components.
No more excuses... Just give it a try...
Interested to know more just drop me an email or see your local Sun Sales Representative.
Cyaz, Maurice
Posted at 05:07PM Apr 12, 2006 by sunraybruce in General |