Encentuate Delivers Single Sign-On and Single Sign-off Integration with MEDITECH Applications

Encentuate for Healthcare provides graceful sign-off and fast user switching for MEDITECH users

(Foster City, Calif., May 30, 2006 ) – Encentuate, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise end-point identity and access management solutions, today announced that it has successfully deployed Encentuate for Healthcare integrated with MEDITECH's software solutions. Among the hospitals that have integrated Encentuate for Healthcare with their MEDITECH solutions are: Community Medical Centers in Fresno, California and Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut. These medical facilities have implemented Encentuate for Healthcare to help reduce their dependence on multiple usernames and passwords, to improve access security to both their physical facilities and their MEDITECH information systems, and to gracefully sign-off from MEDITECH applications to comply with HIPAA requirements.

"We selected Encentuate... because of its ability to integrate physical and logical access, and because it worked seamlessly with our clinical and financial information systems, including MEDITECH MAGIC," said George Vasquez, Chief Technology Officer at Community Medical Centers. "Encentuate did not require us to modify our existing applications; it provided a flexible, non-obtrusive identity and access management solution that reduced administrative effort and expenses and enabled our regulatory compliance process. It also worked with our existing physical access system."

Stamford Hospital uses the MEDITECH Client / Server HCIS platform. Encentuate is deployed to provide single sign-on and sign-off to all Stamford's shared desktops and applications, which requires it to work directly with multiple applications including the MEDITECH Client / Server HCIS platform. Encentuate also allows Stamford to integrate physical and logical access using already-deployed employee ID badges. As a result, hospital staff, nurses and doctors have quick and easy access to approved areas of the hospital and computer systems with a swipe of their existing ID badges and a password. Encentuate's solution implements strong authentication and provides graceful session management and logout for fast user switching on shared clinical desktops. Encentuate also enables HIPAA Security compliance at Stamford by supporting access control, consolidated user-centric audit logs, and workforce security standards.

"It is critical for our identity and access management solution to integrate with our current infrastructure, which includes existing employee ID badges and MEDITECH's Client/Server HCIS Platform," said James Hodge, SSO Project Manager at Stamford Hospital. "We evaluated a number of solutions and determined that implementing Encentuate would provide us with the appropriate balance between high clinical productivity and the levels of security that we needed, as well as the ability to work seamlessly with the tools and technologies that we already had in place. The solution was deployed to more than 1250 clinical professionals in less than ten weeks and allows our hospital staff, nurses and doctors to focus more on patient care without worrying about complex password policies and security issues."

"Encentuate prides itself in delivering a healthcare solution that is flexible enough to work with whatever hardware and software systems are currently deployed by our hospital partners," said E.K. Koh, Vice President of Products at Encentuate. "A significant number of our hospital customers use MEDITECH and have also selected Encentuate as the identity and access management solution of choice. Encentuate has developed a seamless solution that simplifies clinician access to applications and complies with regulatory requirements, enabling nurses and doctors to deliver higher quality patient care. We appreciate Stamford's and CMC's trust in the Encentuate solution and look forward to supporting their hospitals and staff for years to come."

For more information about Encentuate for Healthcare, visit www.encentuate.com or call 1 866 362 3688.