Northeast Medical Center selects Encentuate's Healthcare Identity and Access Management Solution

Encentuate to protect patient information and streamline caregiver workflow at Northeast Medical Center

(Foster City, Calif., March 28, 2006) – Encentuate, Inc., a provider of enterprise access security solutions, today announced that Northeast Medical Center in Humble, Texas has selected Encentuate for its identity and access management requirements. Encentuate will secure access to shared and personal workstations, and reduce the time it takes to access patient information by streamlining caregiver workflow. The solution will eliminate the dependence on multiple passwords, which will help increase caregiver productivity and quality of patient care, and reduce helpdesk cost. The solution also allows Northeast Medical Center to integrate both information and physical access into the existing employee ID badges, using proximity based RFID technology. Northeast Medical Center and Encentuate have started a multiple phase rollout, which includes registering more than 1,500 end-users and deploying the solution across all clinical and support departments.

Northeast Medical Center selected Encentuate to protect patient information by providing flexible desktop security policies and improving caregiver workflow on shared workstations. The solution provides single sign-on to more than 70 core applications, including QuardaMed Affinity Care Management Solutions, QuadraMed Inpatient Pharmacy, and PICIS products, which are currently being used throughout the medical center.

"We evaluated several solutions, but selected Encentuate... as it was the most user-friendly solution for our clinicians and IT administrators," said Carla Maslakowski, vice president of operations and chief information officer for Northeast Medical Center. "Encentuate's solution is very robust and easily supported our complex workflow requirements. In addition to combining computer and physical access into our existing employee badges, the solution is invisible to the users, which is critical to gaining support from our healthcare staff and ensuring implementation success. We are confident that Encentuate's solution will help us enhance patient safety and privacy, be HIPAA compliant and protect patient information without impeding clinicians' productivity or workflow."

Encentuate also allows Northeast Medical Center's IT department to manage user identities and workflow policies centrally and reduce focus on password management and password-related support calls. Encentuate also gives caregivers the freedom to roam between patients and automate sign-on; launch a personal session; access patient information on a shared workstation; automate sign-off and then continue their work on any workstation within the hospital.

"Encentuate is focused on solving identity and access management challenges for our customers," said Thomas F. Kelly, president and chief executive officer of Encentuate. "We support our healthcare customers by enhancing the caregiver's ability to access information quickly while protecting patient information and complying with HIPAA at the same time. Our solution is being adopted by healthcare providers across the country because it is easy to deploy, provides the exact level of security the hospital requires and allows the caregivers to focus on patient care. We are pleased that Northeast Medical Center selected our solution and look forward to working with the hospital and supporting their growth."

About Northeast Medical Center
Northeast Medical Center, a 255-bed, non-profit acute care hospital located in Humble, Texas, is one of the area's premier health care providers offering full service care to residents in northeast and north central Harris County, and parts of Montgomery and Liberty counties. Established as a Hospital Authority in 1977, Northeast Medical Center is governed by the Northeast Hospital Authority Board of Trustees, an 11-member Board made up of members of the community and appointed by the Humble City Council. More than three hundred physicians, podiatrists and dentists are members of our medical staff. Our 26-acre campus in the rapidly growing communities in the Humble-Atascocita-Kingwood-Spring area features a wide scope of health care services including: Level II birthing center offering a complete range of prenatal and childbirth care and featuring the area's first neonatologist; a newly-designed, state-of-the-art emergency department; state of the art diagnostic equipment including MRI, cardiac catheterization, endoscopic and special procedures laboratories; regional cancer center which offers radiation therapy programs; hospice program; wellness center; outpatient surgical and mammography center; the region's most extensive diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical and medical care services; sleep lab and wound care program. Northeast's five-story, 160,000 sq. ft. diagnostic and patient care services tower features state-of-the-art inpatient and outpatient surgical services, a comprehensive women's center (LDR birthing center, antepartum testing facility, women's imaging and women's care unit) and a high acuity patient care area. Northeast Medical Center is a community-oriented, not-for-profit hospital serving more than 350 thousand people with a special relationship, a special commitment and a mission to provide for the health and wellness of all our communities.