Technology TLC
July 2nd, 2009 by Kerry Adorno 
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This week IBM announced that Glendale Adventist Medical Center (GAMC), part of Adventist Health, a not-for-profit, faith-based health system operating in California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington and comprised of 18 hospitals with more than 2,800 beds, has improved the experience of its hospital patients by delivering email and Web access in patient rooms. Working with Novell and IBM partner NoMachine, GAMC is virtualizing 65 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktops to give patients access to the Internet during their hospital stay. With access to tools such as e-mail, Twitter, Facebook or websites that offer information about a patients condition, patients are able to stay connected while they are in the hospital.
This virtualized desktop experience helps offer patients some comfort, while saving significant information technology (IT) maintenance and energy costs for the GAMC. One small way that technology is helping to improve the lives of its users.
July 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Good article
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:35 am
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July 4th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I would love to see more technical details behind this setup. What virtualization technology was used to virtualize the 65 desktops? What software from NoMachine is running on the thin clients? Do the thin clients have a complete OS with the software loaded locally, or does it use PXE or removable media to boot from? This kind of a setup would be useful in many cases if enough technical details were shared to reproduce it.