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GARTNER
E-HEALTHCARE SUMMIT TO FEATURE ENSURE'S XYLOC MD WIRELESS
PC SECURITY
Boston,
Mass., June 28, 2000 – Ensure Technologies,
the award-winning leader in intelligent PC security solutions,
this week will participate in the Gartner's e-Healthcare
Summit, a conference helping today's healthcare organizations
realize better value from their IT investments to lower costs,
improve quality and increase patient satisfaction. XyLocMD™
is a wireless PC security solution designed specifically to
deliver unparalleled convenience and personalized access to
hospital information systems and applications for authorized
personnel. It will be featured as part of Gartner's IT
Vendor Demonstration, a hands-on forum to showcase the
industry's most innovative healthcare technology products,
June 28-30, 2000, Westin Copley Place, Boston, Vendor Kiosk
D.
"There
are vast changes underway with healthcare technology today,
particularly in the area of patient privacy and record confidentiality
with the advent of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA)," said George Brostoff, co-founder and president
of Ensure Technologies. "XyLocMD addresses the heightened
security needs of hospitals and healthcare providers that
have been struggling to implement effective and practical
security policies. It enables them to easily control and manage
access to PCs and patient records while, at the same time,
making it quicker and easier for doctors and staff to use
their computers."
XyLocMD
is ideally suited for hospitals and healthcare providers required
to make PC-based data more secure to meet forthcoming HIPAA
regulations. It transparently prevents unauthorized access
to confidential patient data, while at the same time making
access to network services and medical applications more convenient
for physicians and healthcare staff. XyLocMD applies advanced
software technology to deliver features and capabilities that
are necessary in healthcare settings, including:
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Kiosk Accounts:
Support for group accounts for shared workstations (e.g.
"Floor 4-East Nurses" account in a hospital or "Lab Tests"
account in a clinic or laboratory)
- Personalization,
Quick Access and Authentication: Medical applications
immediately accessible as users move among different workstations
- Automatic,
Hands-Free Logon: Proximity-activated and can be
set for "hands-free" with no user interaction; logs authorized
user on as they approach the workstation
- Centralized
Management Tools: Event logs and audit trails provided
automatically, detailing a history of the use of the PC
for effective security monitoring
Based
on the patented XyLoc wireless security technology, XyLocMD
is a robust and hassle-free security solution that transparently
and conveniently protects PCs and patient data from internal
security breaches. It detects who is in front of the workstation,
whether they are an authorized user and what access privileges
they have. Most importantly, XyLocMD recognizes when the authorized
user is not present and automatically secures the workstation
when the authorized user leaves its proximity for any reason.
Finally, because it can positively identify authorized users,
XyLocMD can instantly log users onto their own medical applications
as they approach different workstations located at nurses'
stations, patient rooms or clinics.
Unlike
other security technologies, XyLocMD takes an innovative approach
to user compliance by not requiring any action on the part
of the user. It is hands-free: no passwords to enter, no tokens
to insert, no fingerprints to scan. With XyLocMD, users are
recognized based on their proximity to the PC and the computer
is unlocked only after it has identified and authenticated
them. Users wear unique badges (that can be used in conjunction
with their hospital ID badge) that communicate securely with
proximity detection hardware and sophisticated software residing
on each workstation. When the user walks away from the PC,
XyLocMD instantaneously secures the PC until they return or
another authorized user accesses the PC.
About
Ensure Technologies
Headquartered
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ensure Technologies (www.ensuretech.com)
is the leader in intelligent 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 active member of the Bluetooth™
wireless transmission standard Special Interest Group, XyLoc
wireless PC security will allow Bluetooth 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
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