PanHealth is a leader in on-line healthcare services and has joined forces with E-Lock Technologies to provide digital signature based trust and security within their solutions.

E-Lock's is focused on addressing the specific requirements for digital signatures as dictated in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, HIPPA. E-Lock aims to help healthcare organizations and online healthcare service providers implement key components of HIPPA's overall regulatory requirements. Through digital signatures, E -Lock will help organizations control, monitor, and audit the use and disclosure of healthcare information.

HIPPA mandates three specific requirements that digital signatures must provide. These are Authentication - a technology that would authenticate the signer's identity at the time the electronic signature is generated; Data Integrity - a feature that would not only bind a signature to a document but also show that the document had not been altered after the signature had been affixed to it, and Non-repudiation - which would block a sender's false denial that he or she signed a particular message, thus enabling the recipient to easily prove that the sender actually did sign the document. E-Lock's digital signature solution encompasses all these features and provides many additional security and ease of use attributes that assist organizations in and in establishing the much-needed trust in online transactions.

"Considering that E-lock's solution is already compliant with HIPPA's requirements of digital signatures, it almost seems as if our solution is tailor-made for healthcare organizations," said Craig Bond, President of E-Lock Technologies. "We plan to capitalize on this and work closely with healthcare organizations to make them HIPPA compliant and provide them with the time, cost, and efficiency related benefits of our digital signature solution."

"PanHealth is pleased to be working with E-Lock to provide secure and HIPAA compliant services like medical transcription, e-prescriptions, medical records transfer and messaging for its subscribing healthcare providers and consumers", said Avi Kulkarni, Chairman and CEO of PanHealth Inc. "Our current and forthcoming suite of products will not only deliver efficiency and cost savings to our customers but would also ensure immediate HIPAA compliance for all the transactions and data movement though the PanHealth system".

About E-Lock Technologies

E-Lock Technologies provides assurance to e-Business content and transactions through the development of innovative e-Business Content Assurance products to meet emerging Internet, extranet, and intranet business requirements. E-Lock's products are designed to facilitate e-Business by empowering existing applications and business processes with PKI based Digital Signature technology. E-Lock Technologies' products are fully compliant with the E-Sign Act, and are targeted to benefit organizations throughout the federal, financial, healthcare, legal, real estate, and insurance industries through the provision of legally binding protection for electronic transactions with non-repudiation throughout a transaction's lifecycle. E-Lock has headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, and can be reached on the Internet at www.elock.com.

About PanHealth

PanHealth.com(tm) is a healthcare Internet technology company with an ASP focus on providing standardized and customizable, innovative software and hardware tools to healthcare providers and consumers for improving the quality of healthcare, while reducing the cost of its delivery and ensuring compliance to security and confidentiality regulations. PanHealth is also dedicated to the establishment and encouragement of a web-based community of health conscious individuals and families. This is attained by providing them with important personalized help at zero cost, in planning their health care and other activities, managing their personal data, linking them to traditional and non-traditional health care networks and creating innovative and value added services.