New York-based Healthcare Leader Turns to Wyse and VMware View to Deliver Secure Patient Care and Meet HIPAA Regulations at Lower TCO

Today at VMworld 2010, Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced how its customer, Interfaith Medical Center, has begun the transition away from PCs in favor of Wyse thin clients. Interfaith, a multi-site community teaching healthcare system that provides a wide range of medical services throughout Brooklyn, New York, operates a newly-modernized hospital and 16 clinics, serving more than 250,000 patients every year. Squeezed by a combination of rising costs and declining reimbursements, Interfaith looked for tools that would help it continue to deliver excellent care while reducing administrative costs. In a concerted effort to improve patient care and staff productivity by upgrading its IT system, Interfaith undertook an ambitious transition to all-electronic medical records management adopting the MEDITECH electronic medical records application both to improve its own productivity and to comply with government requirements. The Interfaith IT team saw MEDITECH training as an opportunity to begin the transition away from PCs toward virtual desktops. With the assistance of Tech Access Corporation, a regional Wyse reseller, they decided to implement Wyse thin clients to train healthcare workers. The team set up four training labs, each with 15 desktop workstations, rotating all staff through a multi-day training course. Instead of spending weeks setting up PCs, the team had Wyse thin clients up and running in two days. On the backend were IBM IBM servers running VMware View™ provisioning the MEDITECH application over the network. VMware View™ is a complete, virtual desktop solution that enables enterprises to improve security, lower operating costs, and simplify desktop administration and management by establishing a modern, end-user computing architecture.