Summa Health System Creates Quick Win With Their Caregiver Community By Implementing...

Summa Health System Creates Quick Win With Their Caregiver Community By
Implementing Sentillion's Clinical Workstation Solution
Sentillion's Expertise With Eclipsys and Citrix Enables Summa to Immediately
Address Mounting Password Challenges and Improve Caregiver Productivity

ANDOVER, Mass., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Summa Health System, a major
healthcare network that serves a five county region in northeast Ohio, has
gone live with Sentillion's single sign-on (SSO) and context management
solutions and is systematically rolling it out to more than 4,000 caregivers.
Summa Health System selected Sentillion's Vergence(R) clinical workstation
solution, which includes SSO, advanced authentication and context management,
to help manage secure access to its network while giving clinicians instant
access to all the applications they need to make clinical decisions.

At Summa Health System its primary health information system, Eclipsys SCM,
along with other key clinical applications are distributed to caregivers via a
Citrix published application strategy. Sentillion's expertise and success
with this mixture of technology was one of the primary reasons it was selected
by Summa Health System.

In addition, as Summa Health System computerized its patient records it found
that electronic data spread across multiple clinical applications was not able
to be accessed by physicians and nurses as efficiently as possible. Prior to
implementing Sentillion's clinical workstation solution, caregivers used
multiple passwords to access and locate the patient's record in each
application.

"SSO and context management enabled us to create a quick win with our
caregivers as we were able to both simplify their workflow by speeding access
to multiple applications and enable them to better manage patient data," said
Greg Kall, CIO for Summa Health System. "In addition, Sentillion's close
partnership with Eclipsys, our primary health information system vendor,
significantly enhanced our ability to roll out the solutions within our
specified timeframe and budget."

Today, when a Summa Health System caregiver provides their username and
password, they are quickly and securely authenticated and, through the power
of SSO, the caregiver is automatically signed into Summa Health Systems'
health information systems, which includes Eclipsys, SoftMed, OptiLink,
Teletracking and AGFA. Additionally, the need to search for patients in
multiple applications is eliminated since context management automatically
tunes the applications to the selected patient's identity, saving time, and
eliminating the potential for errors.

"At the time of go-live, each clinician participated in a five minute
enrollment for single sign-on, along with a brief one-on-one review session,"
said Pam Banchy, System Director of Clinical Information Systems for Summa
Health System. "Based on enhancements to their workflow and ease of use,
clinician's identified additional future applications to add to SSO that would
continue to improve quality of care delivery."

About Summa Health System
Summa Health System is one of the largest integrated delivery systems in Ohio.
Encompassing a network of hospitals, community health centers, a health plan,
a physician-hospital organization, a multi-specialty physician organization,
research and multiple foundations, Summa is nationally renowned for excellence
in patient care and for exceptional approaches to healthcare delivery. Summa's
clinical services are consistently recognized by U.S. News and World Report,
Thomson Reuters and The Leapfrog Group. Summa also is a founding partner of
the BioInnovation Institute in Akron. For more information, visit
www.summahealth.org.

About Sentillion
Since 1998, Sentillion has been revolutionizing healthcare IT with award
winning, industry recognized identity and access management technology.
Sentillion has successfully combined patented technology with a deep
understanding of the healthcare industry to deliver the most comprehensive set
of solutions for single sign-on, identity management, clinical workstations
and desktop virtualization. Recognized as the number one single sign-on (SSO)
vendor in the KLAS Top 20: 2008 Year-End Report, Sentillion is the only
identity and access management company whose solutions are used daily by over
400,000 caregivers in leading healthcare organizations across North America
and Europe. Sentillion is a privately held company headquartered in Andover,
Mass. For more information, visit Sentillion at www.sentillion.com.
Contacts:
Jennifer Haas Elyse Familant
Sentillion Results Public Relations
(978) 689-9095 x262 978-725-3637
jennifer.haas@sentillion.com elysef@resultspr.net

SOURCE Sentillion

Jennifer Haas of Sentillion, +1-978-689-9095, ext. 262,
jennifer.haas@sentillion.com; or Elyse Familant of Results Public Relations
for Sentillion, +1-978-725-3637, elysef@resultspr.net