ANDOVER, MA – Sentillion is kicking off the summer in style.
The Andover, Mass.-based developer of identity and access management solutions has announced two major healthcare partnerships in two days.
On June 23, the company signed an agreement with Microsoft to license its single-sign-on (SSO) and context management technology to integrate with Microsoft’s 2009 Amalga Unified Intelligence System. The SSO technology is the foundation for the company's popular expreSSO product.
The next day, Sentillion signed a deal to allow Healthland, a Minneapolis-based provider of healthcare information solutions for small community and critical access hospitals, to resell expreSSO to its customers.
“Healthland has built a reputation among its customer base as being a trusted adviser and as such its customers look to them to help address broader IT challenges, such as identity and access management,” said Paul Roscoe, Sentillion’s presiden. “We are excited that through this partnership Healthland will now be able to offer our enterprise-class SSO solution to their customers.”
Roscoe and Angie Franks, Healthland’s senior vice president of sales and financing, say the partnership will benefit Healthland’s rural customer base because expreSSO is affordable and can be deployed within days, giving small healthcare providers “plug and go” security for Healthland’s suite of financial and clinical information solutions.
“At Healthland, we are focused on providing the technology that enables community and critical access hospitals to provide the highest quality of healthcare,” Franks said. “For us, it’s about creating operational efficiencies and reducing costs, allowing rural healthcare providers do what they do best - care for their patients. Sentillion’s technology is a great fit for Healthand and the goals we are working to achieve in healthcare IT. We are pleased to partner with this impressive organization.”
The Microsoft deal allows customers of the Amalga healthcare data aggregation platform to have access to SSO security. Officials of both companies say the two have had a longstanding relationship, and this deal allows Microsoft to move forward in its efforts to push Amalga - launched in early 2008 - farther into the healthcare field.
“Amalga UIS empowers clinicians and other healthcare professionals with a comprehensive, real-time view of patient health data previously locked away in separate IT systems,” said Mike Raymer, general manager of Microsoft’s health solutions group. “But for clinicians and others to readily adopt and get the maximum value out of a new platform like Amalga UIS, it needs to become an inherent part of the clinical workflows that drive the patient care delivery process. Our collaboration with Sentillion is designed to achieve that level of integration.”
