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Hilgraeve, Inc. Announces St. Joseph Hospital Installs HyperSend
System will provide secure messaging for referring physicians

Monroe, MI, May 31, 2001 - Hilgraeve, Inc., a long-time leader in data communications software, announced today that St. Joseph Hospital in Marshfield, WI has installed the company’s secure Internet delivery system, called HyperSend. St. Joseph Hospital is located next door to Marshfield Clinic, a large clinic system with 39 locations throughout the state of Wisconsin. Although St. Joseph and Marshfield are separate entities, 300 physicians from the Marshfield Clinic are on staff at St. Joseph. Both the hospital and clinic are located in a rural area where most patients drive at least 30 miles to receive medical care. St. Joseph Hospital needed a secure method to communicate with their referring physicians who are very often miles away from the hospital. The secure online transmission of patient data is a paramount concern in today’s healthcare environment with HIPAA regulations taking effect within two years.

HyperSend is a Web-based system that enables Internet users to exchange sensitive information securely with anyone in the world, through a web browser. HyperSend also features powerful capabilities that give healthcare organizations the ability to exchange patient data automatically – even among unattended computers. In addition, the system’s integrated workflow management tools save time and reduce costs. HyperSend requires virtually no training, doesn’t require maintenance by an IT staff, and can be quickly implemented.

“We were looking for a secure way to communicate with our referring primary care and specialty care physicians,” said Steve Pelton, Chief Information Officer at St. Joseph Hospital. “What we wanted to be able to do was to securely send the patient’s discharge summary back to their referring physician. HyperSend allows us to do this. Another feature that HyperSend provides is the ability to send large amounts of data. Even though it’s called a discharge summary, it is often a very large document that contains almost everything that happens to patients during their stay. Using HyperSend, our transcription system can now deliver the summaries automatically, in real time. The discharge summaries are at the referring doctors’ offices before patients show up for their first follow-up visit,” Mr. Pelton continued.

“The impending HIPAA regulations are very alarming to healthcare executives and rightly so,” said Matt Gray, president and CEO of Hilgraeve. “Far-sighted Hospitals like St. Joseph will be ready when the regulations take effect,” Mr. Gray added.

HyperSend secure delivery service was designed to overcome the inadequacy and risk of using e-mail to exchange large amounts of patient data through the Internet. Legacy digital data transfer technologies are not secure enough or robust enough to transmit large, highly confidential patient documents or files. HyperSend software provides encryption, authentication via passwords and digital certificates, and an audit trail to ensure complete security of communications. Interested parties can make a free evaluation of HyperSend by visiting www.HyperSend.com.

About Hilgraeve, Inc.
Hilgraeve, Inc. is a leader in secure Internet communications software with over twenty years of experience. Hilgraeve’s HyperTerminal product is on more than 50 million desktops as a standard feature within all Microsoft Windows products since Windows 95. Their award-winning, new HyperSend family of products enables computer users the world over to tap the exploding potential of online communications with easy to use, advanced data communications software that also addresses the dilemma of secure messaging. For more information, please visit www.hypersend.com and www.hilgraeve.com.

Editor's Note
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