HOUSTON, Jan. 28, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Crescent Communications Inc. (OTCBB:CCES), a leading value added network (VAN), has connected the Tenet Healthcare Corp. Park Plaza Hospital to BLUEGATE -- the Crescent secure medical network using Cisco Systems(tm) virtual private network (VPN) technology -- announces Crescent President Jeff Olexa.
"It's up and operational; we're executing our plan," Olexa says. "We're providing the health care community with a HIPAA-ready method of communicating over the Internet, using existing technology in an innovative way. The VPN is the first step to creating the world's only industry specific VPN in the medical field."
Complementing the VPN, BLUEGATE offers such services as Gateway desktop security; BLUEGATE Mail(tm), safe e-mail; BLUEGATE Consult(tm), protected instant messaging; and BLUEGATE Shield(tm), security consulting.
"BLUEGATE has changed the way I communicate with the hospital," says Dr. William Gilmer, a board certified neurologist practicing in Houston. "Knowing the information I transmit is protected by an encrypted tunnel makes my operation much more efficient, and much more attractive to my patients. Before BLUEGATE, my staff connected to the hospital from one slow dial-up computer. Now from every work station in our office, hospital reports and patient information are easily accessed over a high-speed connection."
BLUEGATE will provide a cost-effective, efficient means for hospitals, large clinics, regional laboratories and health plans to transmit confidential patient records, documents and other information safely across the Internet to physicians and patients. BLUEGATE was conceived to give the medical community sound, secure technology that meets emerging requirements from the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
HIPAA, passed by U.S. Congress, mandates that the entire U.S. health care industry process all health care information, including billing and record storage, through a secure data interchange beginning on April 14, 2003.
Based in Houston, Crescent Communications provides a VAN focused on small-business and enterprise-level market segments. Using several regional and national carriers, Crescent offers wireless, digital subscriber line (DSL) and traditional communication technologies. Crescent delivers virtual private networks (VPNs), application and Web hosting services, as well as managed firewall services, from its MPLS core fiber backbone network. For more information, visit http://www.crescentb.com.
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