Tuesday, July 8th 2003
CareOregon Selects Kryptiq for HIPAA Compliance
PORTLAND, Ore — July 8, 2003 — Kryptiq Corp., a provider of secure messaging and email based workflow solutions, today announced that CareOregon has selected Kryptiq™ Secure Email to meet new security and privacy requirements for electronic messaging. CareOregon has implemented Kryptiq’s platform for communicating patient information between patients, providers and healthcare systems.
CareOregon serves 75,000 Oregonians on the Oregon Health Plan (OHP) by providing access to quality, cost-effective and culturally competent care through a highly supportive network of providers.
“Secure email is an efficient method of communicating with CareOregon providers,” said Lynne Shoemaker, CareOregon’s privacy and security officer. “ Kryptiq allows us to comply with the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements of patient privacy while allowing us to remain focused on our core business of caring for our patients.”
Kryptiq Secure Email monitors existing email systems and secures messages that contain confidential information. Message encryption and recipient authentication are performed automatically and each secure message is tracked to provide a complete history of content and attachment handling.
“CareOregon is a perfect example of using email to reduce costs in healthcare,” said Luis Machuca, chief executive officer of Kryptiq. “Now, CareOregon will automatically know when patient information has arrived, who viewed the information, and when it was acted upon. CareOregon is serving the needs of their clients responsibly.”
About Kryptiq
Kryptiq is the fastest growing middleware platform provider for automating healthcare workflows. Kryptiq adds security and workflow components to the existing email infrastructure to enable trusted transport of health information across organizations and between users and databases. Kryptiq solves real business problems by providing increased access to data stored in existing information systems and automating the movement of health information where and when it is needed. For more information visit the company on the Web at http://www.kryptiq.com/.
About CareOregon
Created as a health collaborative in 1993, CareOregon became a not-for-profit 501[c] 3 corporation in April 1997. Today CareOregon is the states largest managed care health plan serving 75,000 Oregonians who are eligible for the Oregon Health Plan (OHP). CareOregon and its providers are committed to ensuring access to quality, cost-effective and culturally competent care. For more information visit http://www.careoregon.org/.
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For more information, press only:
For Kryptiq:
Lisa MacKenzie
MacKenzie Marketing Group
lisam@mackenzie-marketing.com
(503) 225-0725
For CareOregon:
Ruby Haughton
Director, Public Affairs
haughtonr@careoregon.org
(503) 416-3716
