PrimeCare selects Sigaba to secure Internet
Healthcare Email Communications
New Rochelle, N.Y. – February
20, 2001 - OCG Technology, Inc. (OTC BB: "OCGT") announced today that
its wholly owned subsidiary, PrimeCare Systems, Inc. ("PSI"), has chosen
Sigaba Corporation's Email Encryption Gateway for securing PSI's health-related
email transmissions over the Internet.
PrimeCare's Internet interactive medical interview system, PrimeCareontheWeb
("PCW"), facilitates collection, analysis and delivery of the patients'
history of present illness ("HPI") reports, from patients to doctors.
Sigaba Corporation
specializes in securing content that is communicated over the Internet.
The combined solution ensures that only the patient's healthcare provider
will see the results of their medical interviews from PCW. Sigaba
encrypts the message, ensures that the sender and recipient are who
they say they are, and protects the information with a seal, preventing
anyone from tampering with the content. The physician can be assured
that the information he or she is reviewing has not been altered,
and the patient can be confident that his or her private medical information
remains completely private throughout its path from patient to physician.
"It is important for doctors and patients to communicate in
ways that are easiest for them. Consequently, PSI has made an effort
to incorporate as many communication channels as possible with its
PCW product, including secure web sites, fax, pager, and now, Sigaba-secured
email. Sigaba's technology allows PrimeCare to leverage Internet email
communication in a way that is not only secure, but also complies
with the level of auditing and encryption recommended in the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA),"
stated Jeff Nelson, Vice President of OCGT. "We looked at many
security solutions. The Sigaba HIPAA solution was by far the most
cost efficient and easiest to implement. It also is extremely timely
since Hackensack University Medical Center's ISP is being activated
and registration to use PCW has commenced."
The HIPAA regulations mandate that any electronic transmission of
patient data be standardized, secure, and subject to rigorous privacy
and auditing rules. Currently, HIPAA has a staggered regulatory schedule
requiring hospitals, physicians, pharmacies, health insurance and
health information systems to comply by 2002-2003.
"We are pleased to be able to offer a simple and affordable
solution to PrimeCare and their customers. With the addition of the
Sigaba Gateway, PrimeCare adds secure email delivery to PCW, allowing
PCW to maintain full HIPAA compliance (complete confidentiality of
records and communications)," said Gary B. Friedman, Sigaba Chairman/Co-founder.
OCGT and PSI have an extensive commitment to healthcare software
and informatics technology. They own, maintain, and operate several
Internet web sites based upon PSI's PrimeCare Patient Management
System: www.YourOwnHealth.com,
www.YourOwnDoctor.com,
and www.PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com.
All of PSI's products actively involve consumers in their own healthcare.
For more information, visit PrimeCare's corporate web site at
http://www.pcare.com
AHN, a group purchasing organization covering North Dakota, South
Dakota, Minnesota and eastern Montana, is a Strategic Marketing Affiliate
of Salt Lake City-based
Intermountain
Health Care, one of three shareholders of
AmeriNet,
the nation's largest membership-based healthcare group purchasing
organization. AmeriNet is located in all 50 states and has a combined
membership of 14,790 facilities. AHN's affiliation with IHC and AmeriNet
could lead to additional marketing relationships for the PSI sites.
AHN is a wholly owned subsidiary of the North Dakota Healthcare Association,
a nonprofit membership organization based in Bismarck, ND.
YourOwnDoctor.com.com ("YOD") will provide free individual
Web sites for each AHN Member and its physicians that enable them
to promote their services. YOD also provides a direct link to YourOwnHealth.com
("YOH"), a free health and wellness site for consumers that
enables them to securely and anonymously select and complete HPI Questionnaires
and to store the completed questionnaires in personal YourOwnHealth
Notebooks, a secure depository within the site for the storage of
personal and family medical data that can be accessed only through
registered IDs and passwords.
OCGT and PSI have an extensive commitment to healthcare software
and informatics technology. They own, maintain, and operate several
Internet Web sites based upon PSI's PrimeCare Patient Management
System: YourOwnHealth.com,
YourOwnDoctor.com.com,
and http://www.PrimeCareOnTheWeb.com. All of PSI's products actively
involve consumers in their own healthcare. For more information, visit
PrimeCare's corporate web site at http://www.pcare.com.
Sigaba Corporation secures enterprise-class messaging solutions.
The first products released secure email communications for enterprises
and individuals, providing end-to-end complete data security for emails
across the Internet. Sigaba solutions are available at a much lower
cost and with a much faster implementation time than most PKI solutions.
Unlike PKI based systems there is no cumbersome key management required
on the part of the user. Sigaba handles it all on the back-end, without
compromising either privacy or security. For more information about
Sigaba and Sigaba's HIPAA solution please visit: http://www.sigaba.com
and
http://www.sigaba.com/corporate/hipaa.html
Safe Harbor Statement:
The statements that are not historical facts contained in this release
are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and
uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters
herein described, including but not limited to product acceptance,
economic, competitive, governmental, results of litigation, technological
and/or other factors, which are outside the control of OCGT as well
as those risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's Security
and Exchange Commission filings.