PostX, a leader in the delivery of trusted electronic communications, today announced that it has earned the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association (AHA) for secure messaging services¹.  The endorsement of PostX services extends to the entire AHA membership.

This exclusive endorsement was established to provide a standardized secure messaging solution to comply with stringent HIPAA regulations for patient and information privacy and security in the health care sector.

PostX products and services were chosen after an appropriate due diligence process, including the evaluation of all major players within the secure messaging space.  The key criteria leading to the endorsement of PostX was its technology, flexibility, multiple delivery models, scalability, company vision, financials, ethics, and expertise.

“Email privacy and trust has become vital to personal and business communications.  It is our responsibility to ensure this channel remains secure for health care organizations and their patients,” Tim Steffl, vice president of strategic alliances, AHA.  “We undertook this assessment and due diligence selection process in order to simplify the search process and buying timeframe for the decision-makers of our membership.”

“Security of confidential patient data is critical in the health care marketplace.  Medical records and internal correspondence between doctors and patients need to be protected throughout the network.  The AHA has monitored the online security space and its technology offerings and found that PostX was the only company to meet our rigorous requirements, as well as provide right-sized solutions for the smallest hospital to the largest,” said Brian Lane, vice president of technology, AHA. 

PostX Solution Benefits:

• Centralized and flexible email gateway solution for managing all HIPAA policies and decisions;
• Turnkey ability to rapidly establish HIPAA compliance with the PostX HIPAA Lexicon;
• Multiple secure delivery methods include the PostX Envelope, PGP, S/MIME, and PostX WebSafe. 
• Integrated solution for identifying the best secure delivery method to use for their patients, partners, and employees;
• Comprehensive tracking and monitoring of email traffic; and
• The solution is offered as either a customer-hosted hardware appliance, as a software package, or (via PxMail) with an optional PostX-hosted component.

“PostX is extremely honored to be the exclusive secure messaging provider endorsed by the AHA,” said Scott Olechowski, vice president of products and strategy.  “AHA is widely recognized throughout the health care and enterprise communities as a thought-leader and key decision-maker for health care compliance, best practices, policies, and future direction.”

“As the regulatory environment becomes more stringent, health care organizations will be seeking additional guidance to assess the solutions available,” said Vic Wheatman, managing vice president for the information security at Gartner, Inc.  “Endorsements by independent industry associations will become important criteria in making vendor selections.”

About AHA Solutions
AHA Solutions, Inc. is a subsidiary of the American Hospital Association that collaborates with companies to create strategic, financial, technology, regulatory, employee benefit, and insurance products and services for health care professionals. It functions as a resource agency to AHA member hospitals and other health care organizations. For more information, contact AHA Solutions at 800-242-4677 or visit the AHA Solutions Web site at www.aha-solutions.org.

About PostX
PostX ensures secure electronic delivery of information vital to business and customer relationships.  PostX delivers significant cost saving, and organizations benefit from an increase in effective communications with their employees, partners and customers.

PostX is headquartered in the U.S. in Cupertino, CA. And our partners and customers include the United States Postal Service (USPS), IBM, VISA, Bell & Howell, Children’s Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, ABN Amro, Charles Schwab & Co, J.P. Morgan Chase, HSBC, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Xpedite and DST Output.  For more information visit www.postx.com

PostX is also a founding member and represented on the Board of Governance of the Trusted Electronic Communications Forum (TECF), which is made up of industry leaders, including ABN, AMRO, AT&T Wireless, Best Buy, Charles Schwab, CiperTrust, DIRECTV, E*Trade, Fidelity Investments, GE Access, HSBC, IBM, National City Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland and Siebel Systems.

PostX is a registered trademark and the PostX logo and PostX Platform are trademarks of PostX Corporation.  All other trademarks herein are the property of their respective owners.  Copyright 2005 PostX Corporation.  All rights reserved.

¹ The AHA endorses the PostX products and services, including the PostX PxMail, PostX PxEnvelope, PostX Secure Email (PostX Gateway Encrypt, PostX Desktop Flag, PostX Desktop Encrypt), PostX Secure Document (PostX Statement Generator, PostX Print Stream Adapter), PostX Interaction Hub, PostX Secure Delivery Methods: (PostX Envelope, Envelope KeyServer, PostX SecureDelivery Suite, PostX PGP, PostX S/MIME Gateway, PostX WebSafe, PostX SecureCompose) Add-On Options for Secure Delivery: (PostX SecureCompose, PostX SecureResponse, PostX Secure Recover, PostX HIPAA Lexicon, PostX Privacy Lexicon, PostX Envelope KeyServer, PostX Websafe Developer, PostX WebSafe Large File, PostX S/MIME Desktop, PostX EnvelopeSignature, RSA Crypto-J BSAFE, The USPS Electronic Postmark, Support Programs: (Silver, Gold, Platinum), PostX Training and Educational Services along with Professional Services for planning and implementation.

Editorial Contacts
Michael Weir 
PostX 
408.861.3598 
mweir@postx.com 

Aunny De La Rosa
Fusion PR for PostX
310.575.4814
aunny.delarosa@fusionpr.com