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Sun Microsystems and TeraMedica Enable Caregivers to Securely Share Medical Images and Clinical Digital Content
Joint Solution Helps Improve Patient Safety and Quality of Care
SAN FRANCISCO, California - May 16, 2006 - At the SeeBeyond Horizons 2006 Community Summit today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) and TeraMedica announced a joint solution that enables customers to securely share patient-centric digital content, including medical images such as X-rays and MRI scans, electronically over the network. TeraMedica's Evercore solution, running on the Sun JavaTM Composite Application Platform Suite (formerly known as the Sun Java Integration Suite), allows physicians to attach medical images and other clinical digital content to a patient's existing electronic health record (EHR) and then easily access them from the desktop. By providing caregivers with timely access to relevant patient information, the joint solution can ultimately help improve patient safety and care, increase efficiency and reduce costs. Customers currently using or testing the Evercore on Sun solution include the Mayo Clinic, ProHealth Care and the Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin.
"A picture is worth a thousand words, and TeraMedica puts the picture into the patient view, creating a single point of access for all electronic health information, both data and images," said Wayne Owens, vice president, Healthcare Integration Platforms, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Solutions like this from Sun and TeraMedica, that use the Network as the Computer, help save time, money and ultimately people's lives, as doctors have more rapid and more complete access to critical information when they need it most."
Both Sun and TeraMedica's solutions are based on open standards and Java technology and are designed to interoperate with a customer's existing platform. Sharing has always been at the core of Sun's business strategy, operating principle and philosophy, and as more advanced imaging technologies become prevalent and more medical images and other digital patient records are created, this joint offering can help physicians and other caregivers more efficiently share and store information.
"TeraMedica's Evercore technology complements Sun's healthcare solutions by enabling access to medical images and other clinical digital content via a patient's existing electronic health record," said Jim Prekop, president and chief executive officer, TeraMedica. "By enabling caregivers to easily view and share medical data, together Sun and TeraMedica can help raise the standard of medical care."
More information about Sun's healthcare business is available at http://www.sun.com/healthcare.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A singular vision "The Network Is The Computer" guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
About TeraMedica
TeraMedica provides medical informatics that will transform the doctor and patient relationship. TeraMedica offers a broad range of software that collects digital medical images from diverse data sources across vast health care systems and manages them in a single patient snapshot. TeraMedica is privately held and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. TeraMedica is committed to providing technology solutions to the health care field that enhance patient care.
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