SquareLoop Introduces HIPAA-Compliant
Secure Text Messaging Solution
Fully Encrypted System Enables Mobile Staff of Florida Hospice to
Communicate Quickly and Protect Patient Information
RESTON, Va.
- March 18, 2008 - SquareLoop Inc., a provider of
wireless location-based services (LBS), today announced that it has introduced a
text messaging system to enable secure transmission of data over public
wireless networks. The text messaging system, which is a new feature on
SquareLoop's Mobile Alert Network, complies with Health Insurance Portability
and Accounting Act (HIPAA) regulations governing encryption of patients' electronic
records and provides an application for secure mobile-originated text messages,
giving the healthcare industry a unique data communications solution for its
mobile workforce.
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast,
one of the nation's leading hospice organizations, will be one of the first
customers to deploy the SquareLoop secure text messaging product. The hospice employs
1,450 staffers who serve patients with advanced illnesses and their families throughout
Pinellas County, Florida. Because its staff is constantly in
the field visiting patients, the hospice needed a secure way for them to
communicate in real-time about their patients' conditions.
"We are committed to our mission of
putting the needs of our patients and families first. SquareLoop's software
represents a new step along our mission-driven course, greatly increasing our
staff's ability to communicate quickly and effectively, critical in providing
the highest standard of care for those we serve," said Gay
Madden, vice president of MIS at The Hospice of the Florida
Suncoast. "Moreover, it is of utmost importance to be certain that all patient
information be held in the strictest confidence, and SquareLoop's fully
encrypted system ensures just that. In
addition, the system provides the ability to track messages from the time they
are sent to when they are answered. We
are looking forward to employing this wonderful new technology on behalf of
those we serve."
In addition to supporting encrypted
text messaging, the SquareLoop solution offers a logging function that will
enable health care administrators to ensure that standards of care are
maintained. It also offers users contact lists, quick text functionality,
special alert tones, and vibrating cadences and produces receipts to show that messages
were delivered and read. SquareLoop's Mobile Alert Network with secure text
messaging can be easily integrated into other systems or operate independently,
and as a hosted service, it can be quickly and cost effectively deployed.
"More and more people are using text
messaging as a means of communication in their everyday lives," said Tom Stroup, CEO of SquareLoop. "With our unique text
messaging product, text messaging can become a valuable way for enterprises to
communicate. The combination of secure messaging with other user-friendly
features provides a strong foundation to support critical corporate
communications in highly regulated industries."
The SquareLoop secure text messaging
system will be commercially available in June 2008 on Sprint Nextel wireless
devices and on BlackBerries through all carriers.
About SquareLoop Inc.
SquareLoop offers the next generation mobile messaging product that
combines wireless location-based services (LBS) technology and advanced mobile
messaging for public safety, content delivery and mobile marketing
applications. Unlike other commercial LBS applications that continuously track
the location of targeted individuals, SquareLoop's technology platform is the
only one available today that can preserve users' location privacy.
SquareLoop's Mobile Alert Network offers location-specific and time-specific
delivery of messages to mobile phones and devices that does not rely on
location tracking or central monitoring of a subscriber's movements. SquareLoop
also partners with content providers and information sources to enhance the
value and relevancy of information. Managed by a team of wireless industry
veterans, SquareLoop is headquartered in Reston,
Va. For information on secure
text messaging, visit http://www.squareloop.com/HIPAA_Compliant_Secure_Text_Messaging. For more on
the company, visit http://www.squareloop.com
About The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast is a not-for-profit agency committed
to serving individuals and families as they face chronic illnesses, near the
end of life, deal with end-of-life issues or are in grief. Community based, through its family of
programs The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast offers comprehensive hospice and
palliative care, caregiver education, individual and group counseling,
spiritual support and many other services to the people of Pinellas County, Florida
regardless of race, age, faith, diagnosis or financial circumstances. Founded in 1977 by volunteers, more than
2,500 patients and their families are served each day by The Hospice's staff of
professionals along with 3,000 dedicated volunteers. To learn more about The Hospice of the
Florida Suncoast, call (727) 586-4432 or logon to www.thehospice.org.
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