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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM ROLLS OUT SENTILLION'S SINGLE SIGN-ON SOLUTION TO 19,000 COMPUTER USERS

One of US News & World Report's "Top Hospitals" Leverages Sentillion's SSO and Context Management Solution to Improve Caregiver Adoption of Clinical Information Systems; Selects Sentillion for its Expertise in Large Scale Deployments

ANDOVER, Mass. - December 19, 2006 - Ranked by US News & World Report as one of the best healthcare organizations in the country, the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has successfully completed an implementation of Sentillion's single sign-on solution for more than 19,000 individuals across multiple facilities. This large-scale deployment includes three hospitals, 30 health centers and 120 outpatient clinics. By leveraging Sentillion's strong authentication, single sign-on and context management solutions, UMHS has been able to improve caregiver adoption of its clinical information systems by making it easier for them to access applications while improving security and protection of patient information and overall patient safety.

Sentillion's solutions are designed to facilitate and support clinical workflow. Today, when a UMHS caregiver provides their username and password, they are quickly and securely authenticated against the hospital's enterprise directory (which in the case of UMHS is Novell eDirectory®). Network access is granted and, through the power of single sign-on, the caregiver is automatically signed into UMHS' health information system, CareWeb, and Eclipsys® Sunrise Clinical Manager (called UM-CareLink at UMHS). Additionally, the need to search for patients in multiple applications is eliminated since Sentillion's context management solution automatically tunes the applications to the selected patient's identity, saving time, and eliminating the potential for errors.

"The primary goal of this project was to ensure caregiver adoption of UM-CareLink, our new Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) system. By providing a way for caregivers to toggle between applications while still maintaining patient context, we have simultaneously improved patient safety and caregiver satisfaction while preserving information security. In order to meet this goal, we needed a vendor that had the technical capabilities to meet our needs and who could also point to successful large-scale deployments," said Francesca Levey, technical team leader for the project. "Despite the number of SSO vendors in the market today, we found that Sentillion was the only vendor that had the expertise to take on an implementation of our size and scope. This, along with the fact that we could get everything we needed from one vendor and add capabilities in the future, helped make them the obvious choice for our organization. Now that we have gone live with the solution I can say we definitely made the right choice."

The implementation team installed Vergence Authenticator and Launchpad on over 12,000 desktops to support the facility's CareWeb implementation, added access to UM-CareLink to this same set of desktops within an additional week, and then added more than 3,000 laptops to the mix. These 15,000 pieces of equipment provide access to 19,000 clinicians, caregivers and staff at UMHS.

With more than 203,000 caregivers live on Vergence, Sentillion leads the industry with successful deployments of user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy auditing. Sentillion's products are in use across North America including nationally recognized institutions such as Christiana Care Health System, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Pepin Heart Hospital, Sharp HealthCare, Sisters of Mercy Health System, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and all 163 Veterans' Affairs Medical Centers.

About Sentillion, Inc.
Sentillion enables organizations of all sizes, from enterprises to small and medium businesses, to deliver and meet the challenges associated with access management, safety and privacy, regulatory compliance and protection of data and information sources - both inside and outside the enterprise. Its flagship product, Vergence™, built specifically for the healthcare industry, is an open, flexible and standards-based solution that includes user provisioning, strong authentication, single sign-on, clinical context management and privacy management. Sentillion's vThere™ solution is the first virtualized, server-less remote access solution for organizations in any industry. Sentillion is ranked by KLAS®, the healthcare industry's leading research firm, and has been named by IDC Research as the leading vendor for healthcare single sign-on for four consecutive years. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass. For more information, visit Sentillion at www.sentillion.com.