Monday, September 30th 2002
TIPAAA Selects Kryptiq as Partner to Provide Secure Messaging Solutions
Healthcare Community To Benefit From Streamlined Business Processes and HIPAA Compliance
Portland, OR- Sept 30,2002 -The IPA Association of America (TIPAAA), a leading educational forum for physician organization leaders and their colleagues, today announced that it has selected Kryptiq Corp., based in Portland, Oregon, to provide secure messaging solutions to its membership of Independent/Integrated Physician Associations (IPAs). This represents a strategic alliance between TIPAAA and Kryptiq to bring Kryptiq Secure Email to small practices and clinics throughout the nation. Kryptiq's solution leverages the power of electronic messaging to improve the quality and lower the cost of delivering healthcare while meeting HIPAA privacy and security regulations.
TIPAAA has endorsed Kryptiq's products and agreed to promote the company as a preferred vendor to its affiliated organizations, consisting of IPAs in 39 states, representing over 320,000 healthcare practitioners. "The healthcare industry is faced with tremendous profit pressures and impending HIPAA regulations that require innovative solutions to not only enhance security but also improve business processes," said Al Holloway, president and chief executive officer of TIPAAA. "TIPAAA's partnership with Kryptiq addresses these needs by enabling healthcare organizations to extend existing email solutions to achieve HIPAA compliance while improving communication efficiencies in the complete healthcare cycle."
Kryptiq and TIPAAA have signed a three year relationship aimed at helping members more efficiently manage available resources by streamlining operational processes. In addition to secure messaging, Kryptiq facilitates the integration of many of the medical industry's standard applications and workflows. Kryptiq's solution will allow customers to attach data descriptor fields such as ICD-9 and CPT to email. This combines the speed and simplicity of email with the power of technology infrastructure like databases and billing systems to lower operational costs and improve patient care. Flexible Policy and Access Controls enable users to establish and enforce a wide variety of security policies.
TIPAAA is a recognized leader in providing a wide range of products, services, and educational programs that help IPAs operate effectively and successfully in managed care," said Luis Machuca, chief executive officer of Kryptiq. "We're excited about the potential of this partnership to help hundreds of thousands of healthcare practitioners realize the benefits of secure email in delivering better patient care."
About TIPAA
The IPA Association of America (TIPAAA) is the leading trade association serving Independent/Integrated Physician Associations (IPAs). Founded in 1994 in Oakland, California, TIPAAA provides a wide range of products, services, and educational programs designed to help IPAs operate effectively and successfully in managed care. The association has nearly 900 organization members, chapters in 39 states (with more in development), and represents more than 300,000 U.S. physicians affiliated with IPAs. For more information about TIPAAA, visit the association's Web site at http://www.tipaaa.org/ or call (510) 569-6561.
About Kryptiq
Kryptiq, based in Portland, Oregon, develops secure messaging solutions that integrate email with the workflow of healthcare organizations. Kryptiq's technology leverages secure email messaging as the information transport mechanism to deliver electronic health data between health care professionals and the software systems that support them. The company's customers include providers, transcription companies, laboratories, payers, disease management vendors and other health care IT vendors. For more information visit the company on the Web at http://www.kryptiq.com/.
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