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NORTON HEALTHCARE DEPLOYS SENTILLION’S VERGENCE SOLUTION TO PROVIDE SECURE IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT TO 9,700 USERS

Louisville, KY-based Regional Health Care Network Simplifies User Experience with Single Sign-On To Multiple Applications While Maintaining Secure Environment for Patient Information

ANDOVER, MA – September 9, 2008 – Norton Healthcare, Kentucky’s largest health care system with more than 50 locations in and around Louisville, has gone live with Sentillion’s Vergence® solution for single sign-on (SSO). Norton is deploying Vergence to its approximately 9,700 information systems users throughout the organization and unifying a wide variety of applications including MEDITECH, McKesson PACS, Kronos and Lawson.

“Providing a secure single sign-on capability for our clinical and administrative workers delivers a huge productivity benefit, since most people routinely use between three and six applications,” said Joseph DeVenuto, vice president of information systems and CIO of Norton Healthcare.  “Vergence enables us to improve the user experience while maintaining a secure environment for patient information.”

DeVenuto said one of the most compelling benefits of Vergence is the ability it affords Norton to build “bridges” easily to current and future clinical and administrative applications, so as Norton’s information systems infrastructure evolves, the single sign-on solution keeps pace.  Vergence Bridges provide a flexible, extensible and uniform mechanism for interfacing to applications in order to achieve single sign-on, context management, or user account provisioning. 

Sentillion’s identity and access management solutions are the most widely deployed in health care and are used daily by more than 350,000 caregivers in 644 hospitals across North America and the United Kingdom, including Eisenhower Medical Center, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Sisters of Mercy Health System, Sharp HealthCare and Texas Children’s Hospital.  Sentillion’s patent portfolio includes patents issued in the U.S. and in the E.U.

About Norton Healthcare
For more than a century, Norton Healthcare’s faith heritage has guided its mission to provide quality health care to all those it serves. Today, Norton Healthcare is the Louisville area’s leading hospital and health care system (44 percent market share) and third largest private employer. The not-for-profit system – the largest in Kentucky and rated one of the top 100 integrated health care delivery systems in the country – includes four large hospitals in Louisville (with a fifth under construction), 10 Norton Immediate Care Centers, 9,700 employees, 280 employed medical providers at some 50 locations, and 2,000 total physicians on its medical staff. Norton Healthcare serves the Greater Louisville metro area, including Southern Indiana, and patients throughout Kentucky.

About Sentillion
Since 1998, Sentillion has been revolutionizing health care IT with award winning, industry recognized identity and access management technology. Sentillion has successfully combined patented technology with a deep understanding of the health care industry to deliver the most comprehensive set of solutions for single sign-on, user provisioning, clinical workstations and virtualized remote access.  Sentillion recently was recognized as the number one single sign-on (SSO) vendor in the KLAS Top 20: 2007 Year-End Report. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover, Mass.  For more information, visit www.sentillion.com.

Contact:
Jennifer Haas
Sentillion
(978) 689-9095 x262
jennifer.haas@sentillion.com

David Domeshek
for Sentillion
(508) 873-7068
david.domeshek@sentillion.com