CHICAGO, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GNAX Health announced today the availability of GNAX SDEX™ Secure DICOM Exchange, allowing Hospitals, ACOs and HIEs the ability to transfer medical images securely. The announcement was made by Jeff Hinkle, CEO, GNAX, at the Radiological Society of North America's 98^th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, where the company is exhibiting in Booth #439.

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SDEX is a simple, streamlined web-based portal for medical image sharing for healthcare providers. Images are exchanged and viewable regardless of PACS used. "SDEX breaks down PACS-driven barriers and silos traditionally associated with image sharing and viewing," mentions Hinkle. And most importantly, the system supports faster and more efficient patient care.

"Images are the foundation for correct patient diagnosis and continuity of care, yet they are traditionally shared by patients hand-carrying them from specialist to specialist," adds Hinkle. "SDEX replaces hand-carrying CDs, films and manila folders with a secure, cloud-based image exchange."  More efficient patient care and fewer repeat exams are the result of electronic, versus manual image exchange.

SDEX is offered as an enhancement to GNAX's vendor neutral archive (VNA) customers and will be demonstrated at Booth #439 at RSNA. Diagnostic quality viewing is available from the cloud or onsite.  Users are also able to exchange images with other GNAX VNA and non-GNAX customers seamlessly.

SDEX solves a variety of cost, security and regulatory challenges in radiology.

• Reduces technology costs - completely managed and hosted at GNAX's HIPAA compliant, geographically redundant SSAE16 Type-II certified data centers.
• Provides a zero-foot print diagnostic quality DICOM viewer.
• Offers tight integration to a providers' EHR or existing HIE.
• Manages access across the enterprise.
• Delivers comprehensive audit logging and on-demand reporting for HIPAA.
• Creates emergency, break-the-glass access for critical, emergency patient care situations.

SDEX is capable of integrating with the provider's systems enabling simplified searches based on patient name and secure single-sign-on using provider-based authentication. Janakan Rajendran, chief information officer for GNAX Health  added that "federated searches allow users to view and exchange images stored in either exchanging provider's PACS, local edge device or in the cloud, making the location of the image transparent to the end user."

About GNAX Health
GNAX Health is a leading healthcare technology infrastructure and application delivery service provider offering hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, 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 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 www.gnaxhealth.com.

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