ENSURE TECHNOLOGIES WINS 2001 TEPR AWARD FOR BEST HEALTHCARE SECURITY SOLUTION

XyLocMD Wireless Security Solution Awarded Top Honors As Most Innovative Solution for Protecting Access to Confidential Patient Records

Ann Arbor, Mich., May 17, 2001— Ensure Technologies, the award-winning leader in intelligent digital information security solutions, today announced that its XyLocMD™ has won the 2001 TEPR Award for Best Healthcare Security Solution, presented last week at the TEPR (Towards an Electronic Patient Record) Conference in Boston. The TEPR Awards annually honor the most outstanding healthcare solutions providers in the industry in nearly 15 categories.

"It is a great honor to be presented with this award," said George Brostoff, president of Ensure. "Healthcare providers face growing data security challenges in the wake of HIPAA. Until now, protecting confidential patient information has forced healthcare providers to implement cumbersome security policies that sacrifice user convenience. Ensure's XyLocMD overcomes these obstacles by using our patented wireless technology to combine information protection with ease-of-use and convenience."

"We congratulate Ensure on its TEPR award for its XyLoc security solution," said Peter Waegemann, president and CEO of The Medical Records Institute. "Ensure's XyLocMD is bringing to market an innovative product that is protecting unauthorized access to electronic patient records while making it easier and transparent for authorized users."

XyLocMD is a robust and hassle-free security solution that conveniently and transparently protects PCs and patient data from internal security breaches. Based on the patented XyLoc wireless security technology, XyLocMD prevents unauthorized access to confidential patient data, while at the same time making access to PCs, network services and medical applications more convenient for physicians and healthcare staff.

Unlike other security technologies, XyLocMD takes an innovative approach to user compliance by not requiring any action on the part of the user. XyLocMD is completely hands-free: no passwords to enter, no tokens to insert, no fingerprints to scan. Using its patented wireless technology, XyLocMD detects who is in front of the workstation based on their proximity to the PC, whether he is an authorized user and what access privileges he has. Most importantly, XyLocMD recognizes when the authorized user walks away from the PC for any reason and automatically secures the workstation until he returns or another authorized user approaches the PC.

The Medical Records Institute

MRI (www.medrecinst.com) is committed to promoting the understanding and development of electronic health care, including the electronic health record. Since 1988, MRI has pursued this mission on a national and international basis by sponsoring surveys, addressing standards issues and providing educational programming, including TEPR,(www.tepr.com) one of the largest health information technology conferences and exhibitions in the world, designed to share the knowledge, experience, and solutions of healthcare informatics leaders and vendors. Next year TEPR 2002 Conference & Exhibition will be held in Seattle Washington.

About Ensure Technologies

Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com) is the leader in intelligent digital information security solutions designed to protect an organization’s intellectual property and physical computing assets from internal security breaches – conveniently, automatically and transparently. Ensure’s award-winning XyLoc applies the innovative, patented technologies of full-time access control and proximity-based authentication to guard corporate data, and asset tracking to monitor and protect computing hardware throughout the enterprise from desktops to mobile PCs. As an associate member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, Ensure and its XyLoc wireless PC security will allow Bluetooth wireless devices to positively recognize and identify authorized users and make Bluetooth phones, PCs and PDAs more convenient to use.

BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson, Sweden and licensed to Ensure Technologies. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective companies.

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