ANDOVER, Mass., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentillion, Inc., the leading provider of identity and access management solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that it has signed 12 new customers in the second quarter of 2005, including nationally recognized healthcare organizations, Eisenhower Medical Center, INTEGRIS Health, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, part of Partners Healthcare of Boston, among several others. Sentillion also continues to make great strides in Canada, adding Chinook Health Region and David Thompson Health Region in Q2. The Company reported that in the past six months, 22 new healthcare organizations have purchased its Vergence(R) product suite to enhance the security, patient privacy and caregiver access across the healthcare enterprise.
“When we founded this company in 1998, we were the first to recognize the healthcare industry’s inevitable need for clinically tailored identity and access management solutions,” said Robert Seliger, president and CEO of Sentillion. “As is evident by today’s announcement, healthcare organizations recognize the necessity of protecting patient data and privacy while augmenting and facilitating caregiver access and workflows.”
Sentillion’s identity and access management products help healthcare provider organizations meet their urgent need for patient safety and privacy, streamlined workflows, regulatory compliance and protection of data and information sources. Sentillion’s Vergence product suite enables organizations to know who their users are -- identity management -- and to help them be productive while ensuring system security and guarding patient confidentiality -- access management. Vergence is a modularized suite that includes user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy auditing.
For the past seven years, Sentillion has been delivering identity and access management solutions to the meet the unique needs of healthcare organizations. The Company continues to lead the industry in deployments and number of live users, with more than 120,000 physicians and nurses using its products every day. In addition, Sentillion’s customer-base includes six of the top 10 children’s hospitals, (Child Magazine, February 2005).
Sentillion has the largest deployment of strong authentication technologies in the healthcare industry, including biometrics and active proximity devices. Sentillion is a distributor of Ensure’s XyLoc proximity solution and the master distributor of Identix biometrics to the healthcare market.
There are currently over 200 Vergence-enabled applications on the market. Applications that are Vergence-enabled via Sentillion Bridges or via the CCOW standard are able to employ single sign-on/off, shared clinical context, and other vital identity and access management functions.
Sentillion’s products are already in use across North America, including nationally recognized institutions such as Cincinnati Children’s Hospital & Medical Center, Fox Chase Cancer Institute, Lahey Clinic, Marshfield Clinic, New York University Medical Center, Sharp HealthCare, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Vancouver Coastal Health, and all 163 Veterans’ Affairs Medical Centers.
About Sentillion
Sentillion provides identity and access management solutions to the healthcare industry. Sentillion’s Vergence(R) product suite enables healthcare organizations to know who their users are, help them be productive, guard their systems and protect their patients. The Vergence product suite includes user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy management. Sentillion was named the leading vendor for healthcare single sign-on for three consecutive years by IDC Research and was the recipient of the Frost & Sullivan 2004 Customer Value Enhancement Award in Healthcare. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information, visit Sentillion at http://www.sentillion.com.
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Sentillion, Inc.
CONTACT: Jennifer Haas of Sentillion, +1-978-749-0022,jennifer.haas@sentillion.com; or Palmer Reuther of Racepoint Group, +1-781-487-4606, preuther@racepointgroup.com
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