Initiative Will Accelerate Delivery of HIPAA-Compliant, Secure Mobile
Messaging to Hospitals, Medical Answering Services, Pharmacies, Insurance and
Pharmaceutical Companies
ATLANTA and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 1 /PRNewswire/ — CellTrust
Corporation, the world’s largest provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones
(www.celltrust.com), announced today its strategy to partner with Healthcare
Provider Portals to bring secure mobile messaging solutions to companies
across the healthcare industry, by the third quarter of 2010.
Ease of use and speed have made SMS the most popular communication tool on the
handset today, eclipsing the volume of phone calls daily. But unfortunately,
standard SMS is in clear text and is not encrypted, so it is not
HIPAA-compliant. In booth #2317 at HIMSS, CellTrust’s Secure Mobile Healthcare
team will showcase the company’s secure mobile healthcare solution, which
turns standard SMS into a powerful, HIPAA-compliant tool, enabling healthcare
organizations and vendors to communicate patient data via secure text
messaging to clinicians’ and patients’ mobile devices. Over the next few
months, CellTrust will work to integrate its SecureSMS technology into the
existing solutions of the nation’s leading Healthcare Provider Portals.
“Our Secure Health Messaging solution solves the challenge that exists today
in providing secure, two-way communication for Protected Health Information
(PHI) between healthcare organizations, providers and patients,” said Sean
Moshir, Chairman and CEO of CellTrust. “A growing number of healthcare
organizations are developing provider portals to improve communication with
healthcare providers and we view partnerships with these portals as the
fastest way to accelerate the delivery of a much-needed secure health
messaging solution to the industry.”
CellTrust’s Secure Mobile Healthcare application suite is built on highly
encrypted, HIPAA compliant SecureSMS text messaging technology that enhances
delivery of real-time Protected Health Information (PHI) to healthcare
providers’, payers’ and patients’ mobile devices via SMS. The suite enhances
the three core National Health IT initiatives – electronic medical data
management, cost reduction and coordinated patient care.
CellTrust SecureSMS Appliance was selected winner of 2009 Best Enterprise
Enabler Application for the RCR Ecosystem Awards. In 2008 CellTrust Secure
SMS won the Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award and was voted
Best Messaging Security Solution by the Info Security Products Guide’s
Tomorrow Technology Today Award. SecureSMS was accredited as a finalist for
the Third Annual CTIA Emerging Technology Award, and was named the winner of
three Mobile Star Awards, and the prestigious Mobile Marketing Association
2008 Global Relationship Building Award.
About CellTrust Corporation
CellTrust is a leading provider of secure mobile messaging and applications.
CellTrust’s patent pending SecureSMS Gateway featuring the SecureSMS
Appliance and a suite of mobile applications provide advanced secure mobile
messaging and information management across 200+ countries and over 800
carriers. CellTrust ensures the secure and trusted exchange of information on
mobile devices to the financial services, healthcare, government, education,
energy, information technology, marketing, and travel, among other global
industries. For more information about CellTrust’s Global, African, North
American and Australian operations: www.celltrust.com
www.africa.celltrust.com www.celltrust.com.au
Health IT has been described as “information technology applications
specifically designed for the practice of clinical medicine, including
electronic health records (EHRs), personal health records, health information
exchange, computerized physician order entry, clinical decision support
systems, and electronic prescribing.” Proponents contend that its widespread
adoption will not only slow health care spending, but that it will eventually
“improve the quality of care provided to patients by improving the information
available to clinicians at the time of treatment, by encouraging the use of
evidence-based medicine, and by helping physicians manage patients with
complex, chronic conditions.” Source: United States Congressional Budget
Office, “Budget Options, Volume I, Health Care,” December 2008.
Media Contact:
Lora Friedrichsen
Global Results Comms (GRC) for CellTrust
+1 949-608-0276
celltrust@globalresultspr.com
SOURCE CellTrust Corporation
Lora Friedrichsen of Global Results Comms (GRC), +1-949-608-0276,
celltrust@globalresultspr.com, for CellTrust