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SENTILLION EXTENDS ITS LEADERSHIP IN PROVIDING OPEN SOLUTIONS BY JOINING WITH ITS CUSTOMERS TO FORM IdMPOWER

Community Will Share Open Source Software for Identity Management

ANDOVER, Mass. - March 7, 2006 - Sentillion, Inc., the leading provider of identity and access management solutions for the always-on healthcare industry, today announced that it has joined with some of the leading healthcare provider organizations in North America to form IdMPOWER™, a unique new community that was founded in order to empower customers to create comprehensive identity management (IdM) solutions to serve the healthcare industry's urgent needs to safeguard their systems and protect their patients' privacy. Members of IdMPOWER benefit from the sharing of identity management software adapters and best practices to dramatically reduce the time and cost required to integrate divergent healthcare information systems.

Charter members of IdMPOWER include Eisenhower Medical Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Genesis Health Care System, Sisters of Mercy Health System, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), and Valley Medical Center.

"The objective of IdMPOWER is to knock down the barriers that today make it slow, complex, and expensive for provider organizations to incorporate, under a single comprehensive IdM environment, the myriad of information systems that they use to deliver healthcare," said Mick Murphy, chief technology officer, Sisters of Mercy Health Systems. "While products for controlling and securing access to healthcare information systems are present in the market, all of these products require integration with the information systems already deployed in each healthcare enterprise. The approaches for achieving this type of integration vary dramatically in terms of complexity, costs, effectiveness, and time to implement."

To address these challenges, Sentillion led the industry first through its pioneering work on leading the creation of the Health Level 7 (HL7) Context Management (CCOW) standard as well in developing unique and innovative applied uses of the standard. CCOW is the healthcare industry standard for IdM capabilities such as single sign-on. To facilitate adoption of the standard, Sentillion has made its software development kit for implementing CCOW-compliance readily available to more than 200 vendors and provider organizations to date, including Cerner, Eclipsys, Epic, IDX, McKesson, Philips, and Siemens. Interested vendors may find more information at www.sentillion.com.

Now, Sentillion is going even further by leading the formation of IdMPOWER. The urgent need for IdM solutions means that healthcare organizations' only choice should not be to wait for their vendors to adopt standards. IdMPOWER enables healthcare organizations to address these integration challenges at their own pace by providing them with access to an open source library of IdM software adapters. These adapters make it possible to easily connect healthcare applications with Sentillion's Vergence IdM solution, deployed by healthcare organizations across North America, to achieve IdM capabilities, such as single sign-on, privacy auditing, and account provisioning.

"UPMC has benefited tremendously by being able to incorporate a wide range of our key clinical systems within our Vergence single sign-on solution. We not only look forward to continuing to extend the reach of our single sign-on capability, but we also are eager to share our accomplishments with other healthcare organizations," said Mark Hopkins, chief information officer, UPMC Academic and Community Hospitals.

The software adapters that are available through IdMPOWER are contributed by IdMPOWER members as well as by Sentillion. Sentillion will lead the process of testing, documenting and maintaining the adapters to ensure consistent quality and reliability. To launch the community, Sentillion, along with IdMPOWER charter members, will provide the source code for a variety of software adapters that were created to enable IdM-based integration with healthcare applications. These adapters will work with applications from vendors such as AGFA, Cerner, Citrix, Dictaphone, IBM, IDX, Kronos, Peoplesoft, Quadramed, Misys/Sunquest, and many others. This collection of adapters is expected to rapidly grow as provider organizations continue to join IdMPOWER.

IdMPOWER members will have access to an online knowledge base and facilitated discussion forums. They will also qualify for a rewards program. For additional information about IdMPOWER, please visit www.sentillion.com

About Sentillion, Inc.
Sentillion is the leading provider of identity and access management solutions to the always-on 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 solution is a modularized product suite that includes user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy management. With customers across North America, Sentillion was named the leading vendor for healthcare single sign-on for three consecutive years by IDC Research. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information, visit Sentillion at www.sentillion.com.