Accelera Solutions to Help MediCorp Health System Achieve Electronic Health Records.Complete Virtual Access Environment Leverages Citrix & VMware Technologies FALLS CHURCH Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va. -- MediCorp Health System has selected Accelera Solutions to deploy Citrix[R] Presentation Server[TM] to their more than 1,000 concurrent local and remote users. Accelera will expand and modernize MediCorp's Citrix MetaFrame environment, providing users with more secure and easier to use remote access for clinical applications. The user community for MediCorp consists of clinicians located at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, VA, as well 27 other healthcare facilities. The complete Virtual Access environment, which will launch in mid-October, will leverage the latest Citrix Presentation Server Software from Citrix that provides a timeshared, multiuser environment for Unix and Windows servers. Formerly MetaFrame, Citrix Presentation Server uses the ICA protocol to turn the client machine into a terminal and governs the input/output between the client and server. Platinum Edition[TM] and VMware technologies as the core solution. This project has been driven largely by MediCorp's need to upgrade and roll out the electronic health records (EHR (Electronic Health Records) Computerized medical records that bring patient care into the digital age and save time, money and lives. The push to adopt comprehensive electronic documentation between doctors' offices and hospital settings intensified after the RAND ) system Soarian[R]. Accelera will integrate these leading edge technologies from the best in the industry: * The new Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Platinum Edition, a comprehensive application delivery system. * The Citrix Access Gateway[TM] SSL/VPN which provides a secure single point of access to all applications while automatically customizing access policies based on each user's access scenario. * VMware for server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS to improve server resource utilization while improving server availability. * RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. [R] for dual factor authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. . * ScriptLogic[R] Desktop Authority[R] which enables administrators to proactively manage, secure and support desktops from a central location. "We worked with Accelera previously and chose them for this project because they demonstrated their solid experience using Citrix and VMware on virtual machines," said George Amols, Network Manager, MediCorp. "I'm pleased with the progress thus far and I think they've come up with a very elegant and thoughtful design. They've always demonstrated that they have our best interests at heart," he said. This new Citrix environment will provide access to over 1,000 concurrent local and remote users to MediCorp's information technology resources. This solution will also provide for and support a highly robust Disaster Recovery solution and allow MediCorp to take advantage of Thin Client technologies at every opportunity. "We're helping other healthcare partners achieve EHRs, and we understand both the importance and the magnitude of this challenge," said Joe Brown, President, Accelera Solutions. "We look forward to helping MediCorp expand and modernize its Citrix environment to provide a more secure and easy to use remote access solution," said Brown. MediCorp Health System has been Fredericksburg's premier healthcare provider for more than 100 years. Today, it has evolved into a not-for-profit regional system of 28 healthcare facilities including Mary Washington Hospital, a 412-bed, full-service hospital offering advanced services usually found in major cities. About Accelera Solutions: Accelera Solutions is the leader in Virtual Access solutions--the most efficient and proven alternative to the costly distribution of applications and information. Accelera has unsurpassed experience providing access solutions for industries including Healthcare, Government, Legal, Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , Education, Manufacturing and many others. Our clients include the best known and most reputable corporations, organizations and agencies. Our portfolio consists of best-in-class Virtualization technologies See VT. See also virtualization. including Citrix Systems Citrix Systems' (NASDAQ: CTXS) is an American technology company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with subsidiary operations in California and Massachusetts, with additional development centers in Australia, India and the UK. , the global leader and most trusted name in on-demand access and VMWare, the market leader in operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. . As a Citrix Platinum Reseller, we hold the highest partner designation. Organizations trust Accelera when access matters. 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