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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

     SUN PLATFORM SELECTED FOR HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
   
SunFLASH Vol 24 #2					       December 1990 
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      Healthcare Affiliated Services Offers FUSION on Sun.
 
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --December 4, 1990-- Sun Microsystems, a leading
workstation vendor, and Healthcare Affiliated Services, Inc.  (H.A.S.),
a leading developer of software for the healthcare industry, have
combined forces to offer an advanced, easy-to-use computing solution
that automates many of a hospital's information needs.  FUSION(TM) from
H.A.S. the first complete Hospital Information System (HIS) software
for powerful, UNIX(R) computers will run on Sun's SPARC(R)
workstations. It is a comprehensive HIS that takes advantage of
networks of multiple workstations throughout a hospital organization
and consolidates clinical, financial and administrative information.

FUSION uses the many capabilities of Sun's workstations and servers,
including networking, multiple windows, multi-tasking and large memory.
It has already been installed on Sun workstations in two hospitals in
Pennsylvania: Citizens General Hospital and Clarion Hospital.

FUSION is an advanced HIS that enables a physician to simultaneously
view a patient's medical history and radiographic images, enter
notations and confer with a consulting physician. It is also used for
patient administration, patient financials, general accounting, patient
care, clinical support, decision support, executive information and a
number of other hospital-related functions. It will soon run under the
OPEN LOOK(R) graphical user interface that is included with Sun
workstations. OPEN LOOK simplifies UNIX, making workstations as easy to
use as a personal computer.

Last June, H.A.S. announced that it would bundle its LabFUSION(TM)
clinical lab management software with Sun's SPARC-based workstations
and servers, reselling the systems to hospitals nationwide. LabFUSION
is a comprehensive lab information system that automates and
streamlines data management functions ranging from test requests and
sample processing to quality control, printed patient reports and lab
billings. Now information available through LabFUSION can be accessed
throughout the hospital via the FUSION software.

Healthcare Affiliated Services, Inc. is headquartered in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania with offices in California, Indiana and South Carolina.
The company is a fast-growing provider of hospital information systems
and services to the healthcare industry.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.


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SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc.
SPARCstation and SPARCserver are trademarks of SPARC International,
licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products bearing SPARC
trademarks are based on an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems,
Inc. OPEN LOOK and UNIX are registered trademarks of UNIX System
Laboratories, Inc. FUSION and LabFUSION are trademarks of Healthcare
Affiliated Services. All other products or services mentioned in this
document are identified by the trademarks or service marks of their
respective companies or organizations.


PR Contact:  Lauren Swingle (415) 336-7273
Healthcare Affiliated Services, Inc.  Mary Grace Skurka (412) 928-5966

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