Beginings CNS began as a vision for a fully networked community, a community linking its businesses and residents to one another and to the world beyond Thomasville. This vision was made a reality first by providing interactive distance learning to the local schools and by connecting the local schools to the Internet. This technology opened doors for the students and teachers to link interactively with other school systems anywhere in the nation - or world. This technology connects all of our file servers in the system, both administrative and instructional.
Information access is what it's all about.
The local medical center, a regional facility with satellite hospitals in five surrounding counties, alsojumped on the bandwidth bandwagon. The medical center became the city's first commercial customer, using the telecommunications infrastructure to connect with its facilities throughout the area. It is not only convenient for our patients, but it allows our doctors to get together on a regional level level and use clinical data to make health care assessments. We started planning it in the early 90's. We met and developed a business plan for our services, and we also developed a strategic plan for Thomasville.