Press Release
Imprivata & Forward Advantage Partner
OneSign Selected to Provide Enhanced Password Security to MEDITECH Users
LEXINGTON, Mass. and FRESNO, Calif. – May 23, 2005 - Imprivata, Inc., the enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) appliance company and Forward Advantage Inc.®, a leading provider of workflow solutions to the healthcare industry, today announced a strategic alliance to deliver joint identity management solutions to hospitals using MEDITECH worldwide. The leader in healthcare information systems since 1969, MEDITECH’s applications unify clinical, administrative, and financial information across a healthcare organization, including acute care, long-term care, home healthcare, and physician’s practices. With deep roots serving the MEDITECH user community, Forward Advantage chose Imprivata OneSign™ as a strategic partner and will resell OneSign through its im-one™ initiative to more than 1,800 MEDITECH customers worldwide.
The combined solutions from Imprivata and Forward Advantage bring simple, powerful and effective single sign-on to MEDITECH users without disruption to the user environment. By offering leading technology and services provided by a team of professionals that have more than a decade of experience serving the MEDITECH market, this offering delivers MEDITECH customers a significant identity management solution.
Forward Advantage’s im-one initiative brings together identity management technologies with professional services, offering healthcare organizations improved information security while increasing convenience for their clinicians to access their information systems. As regulatory forces such as HIPAA increase the requirements for greater information security, healthcare organizations face a daunting task of selecting and implementing technologies that provide the appropriate level of security without impeding the workflow in a clinical environment. im-one integrates identity management technologies such as proximity cards, biometrics and single sign-on solutions, with software developed in collaboration with MEDITECH.
“Our focus is on the customer’s experience and success. We see Imprivata OneSign as bringing a truly unique and compelling component to our current offerings for this specialized market,” said Christopher Roggenstein, president and CEO, Forward Advantage. “The MEDITECH user community has been asking for a simple and effective appliance-based single sign-on solution, and OneSign was designed specifically to meet those criteria.”
Imprivata OneSign is a proven enterprise SSO appliance that provides an easy, intelligent and affordable solution for organizations that need to quickly and effectively solve password management and user access issues. By providing a common log-in across all enterprise applications, OneSign streamlines access, ensuring that organizations achieve maximum returns on their technology investments, while achieving system security and regulatory compliance set forth by HIPAA and other internal policies.
“In a short period of time we’ve been able to make a big impact on the healthcare market with OneSign – addressing password management pain points and general security issues including HIPAA compliance, constrained IT staffs and productivity,” said Patrick Morley, president and CEO, Imprivata. “Our new relationship with Forward Advantage takes our commitment and value-add to the healthcare industry, and the MEDITECH community specifically, even further.”
About Forward Advantage
Forward Advantage is a leading provider of reliable, high-volume output management solutions for the healthcare market, offering a suite of products that provide robust, cost-effective solutions for automating information distribution in diverse environments. Since 1992, Forward Advantage has steadily gained recognition among healthcare leaders as an innovative company committed to delivering high quality products and services. Forward Advantage develops and integrates technologies to offer complete solutions with its Communication Director® product suite to more than 700 customers throughout North America. For additional information, please visit www.ForwardAdvantage.com or contact by telephone at 877-470-0191.
About Imprivata
Based in Lexington, Mass., Imprivata develops an enterprise single sign-on solution that dramatically simplifies password administration and enhances IT security. The company is privately held with venture funding from Polaris Venture Partners, Highland Capital Partners, and General Catalyst Partners. Imprivata’s OneSign product is packaged as an affordable, easy-to-implement appliance. For more information, visit www.imprivata.com .
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Contacts:
Molly Galetto Mike Knebel
Imprivata, Inc. Forward Advantage, Inc.
781-674-2736 877-470-0191
mgaletto@imprivata.com mike.knebel@forwardadvantage.com