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

Global Net Access, a leading healthcare research 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 research ecosystem at the Institute for Health Research 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 Emory’s HIT evolution with GNAX, creating an HIT Ecosystem that lowers costs, improves application delivery and performance and provides direct access to healthcare applications just as GNAX’s new health information exchange.

“I am excited to share with my colleagues some of the key research endeavors we have made recently at Emory,” mentioned Emory Healthcare CIO, Dedra Cantrell. “GNAX has been a strong partner of Emory’s 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 GNAX’s help. And, this is not in a class by itself to just Emory, nevertheless 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 research areas during 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 research ecosystem to better serve our customers 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 innovation services, not only from GNAX nevertheless from our partners and other healthcare research providers who we service in our data center as then.”

Although GNAX has clients 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 just as Piedmont Healthcare, Health Information Designs, ClientTell and many more just in case to Emory Healthcare.

GNAX recently announced its Health Information Exchange in other words 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 customers and giving back to the healthcare community in other words such a strong supporter of our business.”

About GNAX:Global Net Access is a leading healthcare research 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 then as enterprise level VMware based cloud computing services. GNAX’s cloud solutions deliver secure, scalable and self-service public and private cloud solutions that reduce expenses, improve application performance and increase organization agility. GNAX’s 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.