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SENTILLION DRAMATICALLY IMPROVES CLINICIANS' ABILITY TO ACCESS PATIENT DATA AT CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM; REDUCES SIGN-ON TIME FROM 81 SECONDS TO 12 SECONDS

ANDOVER, Mass. - January 17, 2006 - Sentillion, Inc., the leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions for the always-on healthcare industry, today announced that Christiana Care Health System (Christiana Care), one of the largest healthcare providers in the mid-Atlantic region, has successfully implemented Sentillion's Vergence® product suite, including Authenticator, SignOn Manager, and Context Manager. As a result of the implementation, Christiana Care was able to reduce the amount of time it took a clinician to sign on to and find the same patient in the three most critical clinical applications from 81 seconds to 12 seconds. This 85 percent reduction in the amount of time it takes to access electronic records dramatically improved clinician workflow and productivity.

"To ensure optimal productivity, reduce costs and enhance our ability to deliver the best care possible, it is critical that the physicians, nurses and other employees have access to the information they need quickly and easily, from anywhere, at any time," said Steve Hess, CIO, Christiana Care. "To meet these objectives, we selected Sentillion's Vergence IAM solution because of its unique ability to integrate separate applications together into synchronized workflows. Following the implementation, we experienced a significant reduction in the time clinicians spent signing on to multiple applications and facilitated clinician access to critical patient data, both of which spurred increased adoption of computerized systems throughout our facilities."

Christiana Care selected the Vergence solution to provide stronger authentication, single sign-on and context management for applications including Cerner Millennium® and Powerchart®, Agfa PACSNet, Streamline Health™ accessANYware™ and MedSeek SiteMaker portal. The implementation was completed and rolled out to caregivers in November 2005. Since that time, Christiana Care has seen the time required for caregivers to sign on to multiple applications and access patient data reduced from 81 seconds to 12 seconds per person, per session. The decreased sign-on and patient search time has led to significant productivity gains for Christiana Care, measured at more than 2,700 hours of clinician time annually.

A key component of the Christiana Care project was the ability for Sentillion's single sign-on and context management technology to be integrated with a new, role-based portal system that Christiana Care was rolling out to its physicians, nurses and employees. The portal, which delivers multiple types of content including Web pages and applications, has been deployed enterprise-wide. By leveraging Sentillion's technology, access to information within the portal is easier and quicker, and has resulted in increased portal usage and satisfaction by the staff.

"We are proud to work with Christiana Care and provide them with the technology that enables their clinicians to do what they do best: deliver top quality care to their patients," said Robert Seliger, CEO of Sentillion. "Our Vergence solution reflects Sentillion's commitment to offering technologies that provide an efficient but controlled approach to the access of patient data."

Sentillion's IAM 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.

About Sentillion, Inc.
Sentillion provides identity and access management solutions to the healthcare industry. Sentillion's Vergence® 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. For more information visit Sentillion at www.sentillion.com.

About Christiana Care
Christiana Care Health System, which dates back to 1888, is one of the region's largest not-for profit health care providers, serving the people of Delaware as well as neighboring Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A teaching hospital, Christiana Care is recognized as a regional center for excellence in cardiology, cancer and women's health services, as well as Level-I trauma care and Level-3 neonatal intensive care (both highest intensity). Christiana Care operates two hospitals, transitional care services, preventive medicine and rehabilitation services, a network of primary care physician offices and an extensive range of outpatient and home health services. Christiana Care provided $28.4 million of charity care last year.