Wyse Technology Expands Installation of Winterm Thin Appliances at Dreyer Medical Clinic

Dreyer Medical Adds New Winterm 1200LE Thin Appliances To Existing Wyse Thin Appliance Environment to Help Physicians Gain Secure Access To Patient Records

San Jose, CA – 2001/06/11 - Wyse Technology, the worldwide leader in thin-appliance computing, today announced that Dreyer Medical Clinic, one of the top medical practices in northern Illinois, is in the process of deploying 400 Wyse Winterm™ thin appliances with plans to deploy an additional 200 units over the coming months. Dreyer Clinic is deploying the Wyse Winterm 1200LE thin appliances in a move toward a paperless system of accessing and storing medical records.

The Wyse Winterm devices will replace green-screen terminals in the exam rooms, nurses' stations and procedure rooms, providing physicians with access to up-to-date patient medical records. Healthcare providers are moving towards modernization of their computing systems--but not at the expense of patient data security and new applications that require a modern desktop device. Dreyer Medical Clinic decided to implement a Web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) application and therefore needed to replace a significant number of green-screen terminals with a modern desktop device. Thin appliances are silent, have low emissions, are durable and have low electricity usage so they are a good choice for the healthcare environment. Thin appliances are also a cost effective alternative to the PC as they have no moving parts that can break down or lose data, and deliver greater data security and virus resistance.

"We have heard horror stories here at Wyse where laptops with sensitive medical information have been stolen from hospitals," said George Skaff, vice president of worldwide marketing, Wyse Technology. "In 1996 the US Congress passed the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), which requires healthcare providers to electronically transmit administrative transactions to streamline the communications process. The government also requires that the data transfer be secure and private. For this very reason thin appliances provide the most secure offering for the healthcare industry as information is stored on the server and not on the thin appliance so there is no security risk."

With the use of the Winterm 1200LEs physicians will no longer have to carry around cumbersome medical charts to each exam room. Instead, all of the patient's information will be assessable via the Wyse thin-appliance desktop, while the information remains safe on a secure, centralized server. The Winterm 1200LE is a simple terminal for those who need a completely centralized desktop management option. Because the Winterm 1200LE is a completely stateless device, all of the terminal's settings are saved on the server, allowing for more control over the desktop experience. The display-based operating system provides optimized ICA performance, and with all terminal management performed at the server (using existing database programs), it is the most easily managed thin client.

"We have previously used Wyse Winterm thin appliances, like the Winterm 3000 models, and were extremely pleased with their performance," said Stephen Hart, MCSE, MCP+I, CCNA, CCDA, systems/network administrator, Dreyer Medical Clinic. "When it came time to replace the green-screen terminals at the nurses' station and add additional thin appliances to exam and procedure rooms, we decided to use the Wyse Winterm 1200LEs because they deliver greater security and virus resistance and won't break down or lose data. Thin appliances provide ease of deployment, centralized management and network utilization we couldn't get by installing PCs."

Wyse thin appliances have made a significant impact in the healthcare community at businesses such as Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Holston Medical Group, PSS World Medical, Shared Medical Systems and Quantum Southwest Management. Winterm thin appliances are economical, easy to set up and use, and offer members of the medical community information when they need it, where they need it. Chief information officers (CIOs) have exponentially reduced their information technology costs and saved hundreds of thousands of dollars with the installation of Wyse thin appliances.

About Dryer Medical

Established by physicians in 1922, and part of Advocate Health Care since 1996, Dreyer Medical Clinic is one of Illinois' premier multi-specialty medical groups. The 110+ board-certified physicians represent 27 different medical specialties and see patients at 12 convenient satellite sites in Aurora, Batavia, St. Charles, Oswego, Yorkville, Plainfield, and Hinckley.

关于Wyse Technology

WYSE创建于美国硅谷，是全球最知名的智能网络计算解决方案供应商之一。连续8年蝉联全球智能网络应用终端市场占有率第一，占全球市场份额的38％。WYSE提供的硬件、软件和服务为用户提供了可中央控制的系统来协调运算资源、应用软件资源、储存资源以提高性能，在确保系统安全、可靠、灵活的同时，降低了总体拥有成本，并且将IT部门从不必要的支持和维护工作中解放出来，大大提高了生产力。多年来，WYSE深受全球众多知名商业及公共机构的信赖，主要应用智能网络应用终端的产业包括金融、电信、广播传媒、零售、运输、政府、医疗、国防、旅游、能源、教育等行业，WYSE的客户主要是行业领先的全球化公司，财富全球排名前100名中有超过四成已经成为WYSE的客户。

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