Emory Healthcare CIO and GNAX President to Speak on Creating a Healthcare Technology Ecosystem at iHT2 HIT Summit in Atlanta

Atlanta, GA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 01, 2011

Global Net Access (GNAX), a leading healthcare technology service provider, announces that Jeff Hinkle, its President and Chief Operating Officer and Emory Healthcare Chief Information Officer, Dedra Cantrell will speak on creating a healthcare technology ecosystem at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation HIT Summit on April 5th and 6th. The event will be held at the Westin, downtown Atlanta, Georgia. This case study will focus on Emorys HIT evolution with GNAX, creating an HIT Ecosystem that lowers costs, improves application delivery and performance and provides direct access to healthcare applications such as GNAXs new health information exchange.

I am excited to share with my colleagues some of the key technology endeavors we have made recently at Emory, mentioned Emory Healthcare CIO, Dedra Cantrell. GNAX has been a strong partner of Emorys proving that it understands our problems and can get things done for us. This case study reveals how we lowered costs and increased our agility in these uncertain times with GNAXs help. And, this is not unique to just Emory, but can be applied to any healthcare provider.

This talk at the HIT Summit will illustrate how Emory Healthcare partnered with GNAX to create one pool of resources that can be leveraged to enable better performance in all healthcare technology areas while lowering costs an HIT Ecosystem. Ms. Cantrell will cover the details of developing a formidable disaster recovery solution, slashing bandwidth costs, utilizing the cloud to offload second tier applications, reducing and redirecting staffing needs and enabling meaningful health information exchange.

We created this healthcare technology ecosystem to better serve our clients like Emory, said GNAX President and Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Hinkle. The key is to get connected first. Once you are connected into this ecosystem from a network perspective, you have direct access to a multitude of healthcare technology services, not only from GNAX but from our partners and other healthcare technology providers who we service in our data center as well.

Although GNAX has customers from all over the world and in every industry, it focuses primarily on the healthcare industry, which makes up the largest share of its revenue. It serves clients such as Piedmont Healthcare, Health Information Designs, ClientTell and many more in addition to Emory Healthcare.

GNAX recently announced its Health Information Exchange (HIE) that is free to all healthcare providers. The HIE was proactively built with key stakeholders in Georgia, including hospitals, physicians and patients. The first release of the HIE is based on NHIN Direct standards and is an intuitive web-based system accessed via any Internet browser.

Mr. Hinkle states, This is our way of offering a value-add service to our clients and giving back to the healthcare community that is such a strong supporter of our business.

The GNAX HIE will be available to all providers in Georgia and across the country in April of 2011. GNAX is exhibiting at the iHT2 HIT Summit also. Stop by booth #5 during the conference to learn more about the GNAX HIE and related solutions. Learn more at http://www.gnax.net/healthcare.

About GNAX:

Global Net Access (GNAX) is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure service provider offering hospitals, clinics, physicians, pharmacies, labs and many other healthcare organizations HIE solutions, mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed hosting, storage and backup, as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAXs cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and self-service public and private cloud solutions that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAXs 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SAS 70 Type II-certified with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at gnax.net.

About the Institute for Health Technology Transformation:

The Institute for Health Technology Transformation is the leading organization committed to bringing together private and public sector leaders fostering the growth and meaningful use of technology across the healthcare industry. Through collaborative efforts the Institute provides programs that drive innovation, educate, and provide a critical understanding of how technology applications, solutions and devices can improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare. http://www.ihealthtran.com

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Emory Healthcare CIO and GNAX President to Speak on Creating a Healthcare Technology Ecosystem at iHT2 HIT Summit in Atlanta

GNAX Extends Direct Connection to Healthcare IT Ecosystem with Level 3

Atlanta, GA (Vocus/PRWEB) April 14, 2011

GNAX extended its ability to offer healthcare providers direct connection to its Healthcare IT Ecosystem through Level 3 Communications, Inc. Level 3 extended its network infrastructure in Georgia with the construction of a full network point of presence and fiber node at Global Net Access’s (GNAX) AtlantaNAP Data Center, the main healthcare IT hub in Georgia. GNAX hosts a range of healthcare customers, including two of Georgia’s largest hospital systems.

GNAX/AtlantaNAP is one of the largest healthcare data centers in Georgia, recently announcing a health information exchange (HIE) that is free all healthcare providers. Additionally, the direct connection to Level 3′s advanced IP network offers a majority of Georgia healthcare providers access to regional, scalable solutions capable of meeting the increasing industry need for more efficient communications services.

“Our customers demand network access and solutions that are capable of meeting their ever-rising need for swift and secure data redundancy,” said Jeff Hinkle, President and Chief Operating Officer for GNAX. “Directly connecting our facility to Level 3′s network brings innovative ways to allow customers to access our HIT Ecosystem efficiently and cost effectively, and underscores our dedication to offering our customers the best solutions possible for network access and advanced communications services.”

The key is to get connected first, continued Mr. Hinkle. Once you are connected into this ecosystem from a network perspective, you have direct access to a multitude of healthcare technology services, not only from GNAX but from our partners and other healthcare technology providers who we service in our data center as well.

According to the June 2010 Cisco, Visual Networking Index, recent industry estimates show that healthcare data is more than quadrupling every two years, and Level 3′s high-capacity backbone network and targeted services are well-equipped to manage this increasingly dramatic rise. Level 3 offers a variety of network solutions designed to meet the growing communications needs of the healthcare industry, including strategic planning for future network requirements, managed and efficient storage solutions, disaster recovery capabilities, and optimized network planning to improve organizational efficiencies.

“Atlanta is an important market for Level 3, and building direct access into the AtlantaNAP Data Center demonstrates our commitment to providing first-rate solutions to the healthcare industry, while serving Atlanta businesses, universities and communities on a local level,” said Allan English, Level 3′s general manager for Georgia. “We are delighted that AtlantaNAP customers will be able to improve their information access and security using the direct connection to our Tier 1 network and robust service portfolio.”

Level 3 leverages its extensive fiber-optic network, metro assets and a locally focused sales and sales support organization to deliver world-class services to enterprise customers and service providers throughout the United States.

The AtlantaNAP data center is located at 1100 White St. SW Atlanta, GA 30310.

About GNAX:

Global Net Access (GNAX) is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure service provider offering hospitals, clinics, physicians, pharmacies, labs and many other healthcare organizations HIE solutions, mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed hosting, storage and backup, as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAXs cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and self-service public and private cloud solutions that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAXs 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SAS 70 Type II-certified with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at http://www.gnax.net.

About Level 3 Communications:

Level 3 Communications, Inc. is a leading international provider of fiber-based communications services. Enterprise, content, wholesale and government customers rely on Level 3 to deliver services with an industry-leading combination of scalability and value over an end-to-end fiber network. Level 3 offers a portfolio of metro and long-haul services, including transport, data, Internet, content delivery and voice. For more information, visit http://www.level3.com.

GNAX Extends Direct Connection to Healthcare IT Ecosystem with Level 3

GNAX Health Hires Chris Alfano to Lead Healthcare Technology Product Portfolio

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 18, 2012

GNAX Health, a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider, announced today the addition of Chris Alfano, medical imaging industry veteran as Medical Image Solutions Product Manager. In his new role, Chris will be responsible for the healthcare products and solutions related to medical imaging, including vendor neutral archive (VNA), cloud archive and backup, and cloud computing for medical imaging applications.

We are excited to have someone with Chriss background join the GNAX Health team, remarked George Robbie, Vice President of Sales for GNAX Health. The largest need we see from our healthcare customers is storage for their ever-increasing data requirements, especially related to medical images. Chris will bridge the customer requirements with GNAX product development for the implementation of GNAX medical image archive solutions, creating a single deliverable solution from multiple inputs and ensuring a strong cohesive customer experience.

Chris has over 19 years of experience in Healthcare Technology. He has helped build solutions for many high-profile clients, including the Department of Defense, Christus Health, Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, National Institutes of Health, Kaiser Permanente, Blue Cross and United Health.

Prior to joining GNAX Health, Chris was the Director of Partner Sales at Acuo Technologies, which delivers an Open-System VNA solution for transporting, storing and tracking digital clinical information such as medical images. Acuos Universal Clinical Platform provides the foundation for interoperability and data management that is required in a complex and always changing healthcare technology environment. At Acuo, Chris led the sales efforts for the Powered by Acuo solution suite, driving the product requirements, design input and feature priorities for Acuo solutions.

GNAXs VNA solution is powered by Acuos Universal Clinical Platform. GNAX has an established partnership with Acuo Technologies, and bringing the knowledge of that product in-house strengthens that relationship and ensures a seamless support experience for our VNA customers, said Robbie.

Prior to Acuo, Chris was the Director of Product Management for Emageon, which provided an enterprise solution for storage and interpretation of digital medical content, including radiology and cardiology. Prior to that, Chris developed and managed the professional services group for MACESS at SunGard.

Chris also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer and Information Sciences from the University of Alabama.

Learn more about GNAX Healths medical image archive solutions.

About GNAX Health

GNAX Health is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, IDNs, clinics, labs and many other healthcare organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, backup & disaster recovery, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA), as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and clouds that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAX’s 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at http://www.gnaxhealth.com.

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GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook Announce Healthcare IT Alliance

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook, announced today the formation of a new strategic alliance to provide an integrated and simplified solution for medical image access, exchange and management.

The cloud-based, clinical content management solution delivered through this alliance offers healthcare providers a cost effective way to deploy a best-of-breed solution that includes a vendor neutral archive (VNA) platform, an integrated universal medical image viewer and image exchange strategies that fit the needs of healthcare organizations.

The solution, available through a single contract, combines Acuos Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) with Client Outlooks eUnityTM clinical image visualization, sharing and collaboration toolset, hosted within GNAXs healthcare-focused cloud infrastructure and tier-4 data centers all supported by a cohesive customer support program. This collective offering provides necessary components critical to building a highly secure disaster recovery and business continuity solution for medical imaging without the infrastructure and costs associated with a traditional model. This solution also provides an economical way to store and protect data by freeing up primary local storage, reducing the total amount of storage needed and shifting from a capital intensive local archive to a pay-as-you-go operational service.

GNAX Health is also in the final stages of developing a web-based image exchange service, called SDEX (Secure DICOM Exchange). Integrated into the foundation of Acuos UCP and data structure as well with the Client Outlook viewer, SDEX provides customers with the benefits of a single, best-of-breed exchange solution. It meets the challenge of complicated workflows by integrating with the provider’s employee and patient identification systems to secure access and simplify patient searches. Studies are retrieved from any of the connected PACS, local edge devices or from the cloud archive, making the location of the image transparent to the end user. Providers are able to securely exchange and view images with other GNAX VNA and non-GNAX customers seamlessly, creating a health information exchange (HIE) platform with a workflow for medical imaging.

Acuos UCP simplifies the process of managing clinical content, providing virtualization and normalization of medical images and non-DICOM data, service orchestration, data replication, clinical workflow, compliance and contextual data management services, with a built-in performance management environment and dashboard.

Client Outlooks eUnity product provides a universal viewer that lets health care professionals access, manipulate and collaborate in real-time with diagnostic quality medical images using a web-browser and a mobile application for tablets that enables on-the-go viewing of all image modalities, including X-ray, CT, MRI, color ultrasound and X-Ray angiography.

The integration of these solutions solves a wide range of problems for our healthcare customers, said Jeff Hinkle, chief executive officer for GNAX Health. This offering tightly integrates world-class clinical content viewing, abstraction and life cycle management applications, data migration, cloud-computing and customer support services into a single bundle, greatly simplifying the process of administering enterprise medical image access, exchange and management while reducing IT costs.

All healthcare systems, including hospital networks, university hospitals, community hospitals, physician offices, and other organizations with complex use-case requirements stand to benefit greatly from the interoperability and economies of scale offered by this alliance. The ability to accelerate access to patient information at the point of care along with the collaborative benefits of having an integrated viewing platform improves clinical decision-making, enhances quality of care and speeds up treatment for patients.

Today, healthcare providers and the IT groups that support them face complexities and delays associated with managing multiple sets of clinical data. Departmental image data silos provide integration barriers and make it difficult to be responsive to patient demand, meaningful use requirements and audit demands. Scalability is an ongoing issue as the number and size of medical image files continues to grow at an exponential rate. Ultimately, these problems lead to difficulty in physicians accessing information and collaborating at the point of care.

This offering simplifies and resolves these issues, giving healthcare institutions a shared services approached provided by a trusted partner focused on solving these problems in an integrated and cohesive way. The money organizations can save by easing the process of moving, accessing and managing clinical data with this new approach, said Brenda Rankin, executive vice president and co-founder of Client Outlook, will allow them to put more money toward clinical quality improvements.

This consortium brings an innovative solution based on IHE standards to the marketplace that will disrupt the status quo in healthcare IT, noted Jeff Timbrook, chief executive officer for Acuo Technologies. Weve worked closely with GNAX and Client Outlook to develop an implementation approach that will save our customers significant time and effort. Healthcare organizations can get a complete solution through a single source while lowering their IT expenses with our unique pricing model.

Organizations interested in finding out more about this new solution should contact GNAX Health at 855.280.4629 or health(at)gnax(dot)net.

About GNAX Health

GNAX Health is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, IDNs, clinics, labs and many other healthcare organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, backup & disaster recovery, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA), as well as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure and scalable clouds that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organizational agility. GNAX’s 70,000 square feet mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more at http://www.gnaxhealth.com.

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) solution for medical image content, both DICOM and Non-DICOM. Today, Acuo supports implementations of UCP around the world, including locations in Africa, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. For more information on providing superior clinical content management and data migration while simplifying operations and reducing costs, visit http://www.acuotech.com.

About Client Outlook Inc.

Client Outlook is a healthcare company, first, a technology company second. Driven by personal healthcare experiences, the Client Outlook team challenges themselves every day to develop and deliver the most practical, useful and secure clinical mobility solutions for physicians and frontline healthcare professionals – right where healthcare happens. Client Outlook is the leader in universal viewing technologies. For more information about our company and our product, eUnity, visit us on the web at http://www.clientoutlook.com.

GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook Announce Healthcare IT Alliance

Colorado Telehealth Network Signs Contract with GNAX Health to Provide Statewide Medical Image Archive and Exchange

Denver, CO (PRWEB) November 26, 2012

The Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN) developed a program that will enable hospitals, imaging centers, clinics and other health care providers in Colorado to safely store and share medical images through a private cloud hosted and managed by GNAX Health on CTN. CTN and GNAX Health are working with the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization (CORHIO) and Quality Health Network (QHN)the two Colorado Health Information Exchangesto image-enable their physician portals so that images and diagnostic reports will be available through the HIEs. GNAX Health will also allow CTN to offer disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. In addition, electronic medical records (EMRs) can be integrated with the infrastructure to provide physicians a single interface for viewing all medical images, which is a requirement for Stage 2 Meaningful Use.

Nine CHA member hospitals worked with CTN over the past eight months to develop the imaging program with input from hospitals across Colorado. After a thorough RFI process and evaluation of five solutions, CTN selected a solution provided by GNAX Health through a strategic alliance with Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook. The unique requirements of the CTN program required a specific set of capabilities that is best addressed through this strategic alliance. Several use casessuch as the ability to search, retrieve and exchange medical image studies federated across CTN and view images quickly from the cloudled to this best-of-breed approach.

This pioneering agreement between CTN, GNAX, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook further solidifies our network as a national leader in health information technology and connectivity, comments Ed Bostick, CTN Executive Director. We are confident this new image-storing service has the functionality and advantages our clients deserve, and promises to significantly enhance patient care coordination and quality across Colorado.

The solution combines Acuo’s Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) with Client Outlook’s eUnity clinical image visualization, sharing and collaboration toolset, hosted within GNAX’s health care-focused cloud infrastructure and tier-4 data centersall supported by a cohesive customer support program. This collective solution provides necessary components critical to building a statewide vendor neutral archive and, subsequently, a highly secure disaster recovery and business continuity solution for medical imaging without the infrastructure and costs associated with a traditional model.

GNAX Health is also providing a web-based image exchange service for CTN, called SDEX (Secure DICOM Exchange) that is integrated into the foundation of Acuo’s UCP and utilizes the Client Outlook viewer. It meets the challenge of complicated workflows by integrating with the provider’s employee and patient identification systems to securely access and simplify patient searches. Studies can be retrieved from any of the connected PACS, local edge devices or from the cloud archive, making the location of the image transparent to the end user in addition to reducing the total amount of storage required (because images do not have to be copied in all locations to be accessible).

This is a great example of a successful public-private partnership. This collaboration led to a unique strategic alliance that produces a solution unlike any others in the market, said Jeff Hinkle, chief executive officer for GNAX Health. “This offering tightly integrates world-class clinical content viewing, abstraction and life-cycle management applications, data migration, cloud-computing and customer support services into a single bundle, greatly simplifying the process of administering enterprise medical image access, exchange and management while reducing IT costs.”

“This consortium brings an innovative solution based on IHE standards to CTN,” noted Jeff Timbrook, chief executive officer for Acuo Technologies. “We’ve worked closely with GNAX and Client Outlook to develop an implementation approach that will save CTN significant time and effort.

The benefits of the program to Colorado health care providers and patients are numerous. Patients of participating providers should no longer be required to transport their own imaging studies via CD or film. Consequently, such patients should no longer undergo duplicate studies, reducing unnecessary radiation exposure.

CTN leverages the reciprocal collaborative nature of the solution to make it affordable for all providers in Colorado. The services are available to all CTN members through flexible deployment models that fit each providers needs. The program is financially sustained through a subscription model based on the number of studies ingested and the amount of cloud storage required. Because the program is scaled across the entire state of Colorado, it provides cost savings for both large and small providers. The small hospitals receive an enterprise vendor-neutral archive and exchange solution at a fraction of the cost while gaining access to specialists at larger institutions for their patients. Large providers also benefit from the collaboration with critical access facilities because they can service patients they may not otherwise be able to as easily.

Two hospitals are expected to begin implementation this year, with several additional hospitals slated for 2013.

CTN, along with GNAX Health, Acuo Technologies and Client Outlook will summarize the journey to this strategic alliance-based solution during a presentation at RSNA 2012 in Chicago. RSNA attendees can see the presentation on Monday, November 26th at 10:30 a.m. in the South Hall Exhibitor Showcase Theatre, booth 4064. Learn more about the session here: http://go.gnaxhealth.com/RSNA2012-CTN-session.html. RSNA attendees may also schedule an appointment to speak with GNAX Health and CTN executives to learn more about the Colorado program here: http://go.gnaxhealth.com/RSNA-CTN-GNAX_appointment.html.

About the Colorado Telehealth Network

The Colorado Telehealth Network (CTN) is a statewide broadband network formed in 2008 as a result of two Federal Communications Commission (FCC) grant awards to the Colorado Hospital Association and the Colorado Behavioral Health Council. In partnership with the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization and the Quality Health Network, CTN works to improve patient care and safety by providing the core network infrastructure that enables rural health care organizations to increase their use of health information technology; and encourages affiliated health care organizations to collaborate and integrate in ways not possible without a high-capacity, connected network. In January 2012, CTN met its goal of connecting more than 200 hospitals, clinics and behavioral health care centers statewide. For more information, visit http://www.cotelehealth.com.

About GNAX Health

GNAX Health is a leading health care technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, labs and many other health care organizations mission-critical datacenter colocation, managed application delivery, backup & disaster recovery, medical image vendor neutral archive (VNA) and enterprise level cloud computing services. GNAX’s 70,000 square-foot mission-critical datacenter in Atlanta is SSAE 16 Type II compliant with Tier-4 power and serves as its home base with an additional strategic facility located in Dallas, Texas. Learn more by visiting RSNA booth 439 or go to http://www.gnaxhealth.com.

About Acuo Technologies

Acuo Technologies, with headquarters in Minneapolis, MN, was founded in 2000 with the objective of developing the first enterprise-wide collaborative Universal Clinical Platform (UCP) solution for medical image content, both DICOM and Non-DICOM. Today, Acuo supports implementations of UCP around the world, including locatio

Colorado Telehealth Network Signs Contract with GNAX Health to Provide Statewide Medical Image Archive and Exchange