Imprivata's Enterprise Single Sign-on Appliance Heals Password Management, Access and Compliance Problems for Healthcare Organizations

Business Wire, August 8, 2006

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- OneSign ESSO Offers Practical Means to Achieve HIPAA Compliance and Has Improved Security at More Than 100 Healthcare Organizations To Date

Imprivata(R), Inc., the enterprise authentication and access management appliance company, continues to experience significant growth and momentum within the healthcare community as an increasing number of healthcare providers have selected the company's OneSign(TM) Enterprise Single Sign-On (ESSO) appliance to solve the password management, access and compliance challenges that burden the industry. Michigan's Memorial Healthcare, Washington State's Southwest Washington Medical Center (SWMC) and Indiana-based Good Samaritan Hospital are just a few of the healthcare organizations that have successfully implemented OneSign ESSO to address these challenges.

Since the U.S. government mandated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and began enforcing the security standards in April 2005, all U.S. healthcare providers have been required to implement measures that safeguard the privacy of patient health information against misuse and inappropriate disclosures. Imprivata's OneSign ESSO offers healthcare organizations a practical, affordable way to achieve compliance with HIPAA and other patient protection safeguards while also eliminating password management problems, improving security and user productivity, and reducing IT help desk costs.

With shared workstation and roaming desktop support and compliance assurance, OneSign ESSO easily integrates with all applications including popular healthcare applications including Cerner, Meditech, McKesson, Siemens, Eclipsys, IDX and more; offers built-in support for strong authentication including ID tokens, proximity cards and finger biometrics; and allows for user accountability by providing reports from ongoing monitoring of application usage.

SWMC, a five-time 100 Top(R) National Hospitals award winner, selected Imprivata's solution over other providers because it addressed all of the organization's customer and service delivery priorities including ease of use as well as its technical goals and requirements such as high reliability and ease of integration with all of the hospital's applications.

"Our goal is to provide the best healthcare possible to our patients, so if our employees are frustrated because they have too many passwords to remember or they cannot access patient information in an efficient manner, that hurts everyone," said Christopher Paidhrin, IS Security and HIPAA Compliance Officer for SWMC. "OneSign ESSO not only alleviates these password and access problems, but also eases the pain of meeting regulatory compliance requirements."

Memorial Healthcare, awarded Hospital & Health Networks Top 100 Most Wired Hospitals for the last 4 years, also needed to ease administrative burdens and allow clinicians to spend more time with patients. Additionally, the hospital needed a solution that would reduce help desk calls for password resets and could integrate with the multitude of other technologies already implemented there such as proximity access, fingerprint biometric authentication and dynamic roaming. OneSign ESSO addressed these issues and offered single sign-on support for Meditech Magic, an operating system already installed throughout the institution.

Faced with limited staff resources for implementation and ongoing maintenance, Indiana-based Good Samaritan Hospital selected OneSign ESSO because it offered a cost effective solution that provided a platform for strong authentication while requiring minimal daily maintenance.

"Our continued success in the healthcare industry underscores our ability to offer healthcare organizations easy-to-use, intelligent solutions that address their specific needs," explained Omar Hussain, president and CEO of Imprivata. "We continue to work closely with our healthcare customers to ensure that we fully understand their pain points and effectively address those needs so they can focus on providing excellent patient care."

About Imprivata

Based in Lexington, Mass., Imprivata develops enterprise authentication and access management solutions. The company is privately held with venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners and General Catalyst Partners. Imprivata OneSign is an authentication and access management platform that is changing the way organizations secure their networks, applications and integrated IT/building access. Imprivata's OneSign solutions are packaged in an affordable, easy-to-implement and maintain appliance and are distributed through an established worldwide network of channel, ISV and technology partners. For more information visit www.imprivata.com.

Imprivata is a registered trademark of Imprivata, Inc. and OneSign ENA is a trademark of Imprivata, Inc. All other product or company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.