Encentuate Improves Caregiver Productivity and Secures Access to Patient Information at Stamford Hospital

Solution automates clinical workflows and integrates with MEDITECH Client-Server HCIS, FUJI, and McKesson

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - October 17, 2006 - Encentuate, Inc., a provider of end-point identity and access management solutions, today announced that Stamford Hospital, a not-for-profit, teaching hospital in Stamford, Conn., with more than 300 inpatient beds and 2,300 employees, has deployed Encentuate Solution for Healthcare to improve caregiver productivity, secure access to patient information, and enable HIPAA compliance. The solution improved caregiver productivity and reduced 'time to patient information' by more than 85% per user session. Encentuate also enabled Stamford's caregivers to leverage their HID iClass building access cards to provide secure and easy access to all healthcare and corporate information systems including MEDITECH HCIS Client/Server platform, FUJI PACS, and McKesson.

At Stamford Hospital, Encentuate provides single sign-on and single sign-off to caregivers, including fast-user switching on shared clinical workstations. The solution also protects unattended workstations from unauthorized access by providing configurable, time-based desktop security policies. Encentuate also enabled HIPAA Security compliance by ensuring unique user logins and providing the hospital's IT team with a variety of user-centric auditing and compliance reporting features.

"Clinical workflow on any nursing unit workstation was complex before Encentuate was implemented. Now I sign on to my personal desktop using my ID badge, which makes the workflow very streamlined. I save a lot of time and dedicate that to making better clinical decisions instead of getting locked out of computers and remembering many passwords," said Dr. Michael Parry, director of infectious disease. "The solution delivers a complete roadmap for our future identity and access management requirements. This is a valuable solution that will result in higher productivity for both our caregivers and IT staff, allowing them to focus on delivering quality patient care," concluded Keith Ryan, chief information officer.

"Stamford Hospital wanted a solution that would enable it to effectively balance the need for improved security while supporting the caregiver's demand for quick and easy access to critical patient information," said Peng T. Ong, founder and chairman of Encentuate. "We were able to meet Stamford's requirements quickly and demonstrate our solution's ability to combine physical and logical access and integrate seamlessly with a variety of applications including MEDITECH HCIS."

Benefits of Encentuate's healthcare IAM solution at Stamford Hospital include:

For more information on Encentuate, visit www.encentuate.com or call +1-866-362-3688.

About Stamford Hospital
Stamford Hospital is a not-for-profit provider of comprehensive healthcare services in lower Fairfield County. The mission of Stamford Hospital is to provide, together with its physicians, a broad range of high quality health and wellness services focused on the needs of our communities. Stamford Hospital is affiliated with the NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System and is a major teaching affiliate of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Encentuate Media Contact: Susan Majerus, +1-970-301-4190, susanm@encentuate.com

Stamford Hospital Media Contact: Scott Orstad, +1-203-276-5933, sorstad@stamhealth.org