What is the hype on Sun's desktop virtualization? Hospitals need to lead the efforts in changing to an electronic health record and thus must adapt faster, expand their scope, create domains of practice, and access their performance. President Obama and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have giving healthcare no option but to change to an electronic environment. Automated data access and retention rely on information technology, hardware, software, and telecommunications, to collect, store, manage, and transmit health information. So is Sun’s desktop virtualization the “magic” answer to this complicated problem?
Denver Health has adopted a Sun Virtual Desktop Solution to manage their operations. The Sun Ray 2 runs the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) is the IT infrastructure Denver Health chose. Denver Health also worked with Sun to integrate the Sun Ray technology into its IT environment and to have Sun supports its existing implementation of smart cards and Active Directory and, ultimately, to enable the solution to offer a feature-rich desktop based on Citrix software.
“Desktop virtualization with Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is not only more manageable than traditional desktop architectures; it is more flexible as well. The software allows users to access the same desktop environment from many different client devices and locations, enabling disaster recovery, remote office, and work from home, and green computing through the use of low power thin client devices such as Oracle's Sun Ray Clients.” (http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/oraclevm)
The smart card is a great resource to have. I work in the healthcare industry and have over 15 different applications with different passwords. It is essential to have a computer system that can navigate and keep patients’ information confidential. Even with Sun Ray 2 having all these provisions, it does not mean patient’s health information is safe. It is up to the institutions or organization to have check and balances for each employee’s and each application.
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Reference
Oracle. (2010) SunRay Client 2. Retrieved from: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/sunray-3-client-
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