Palo Alto, CA 6/8/2012 10:12:43 PM
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Cognuse Adopts Guardtime Keyless Signature Technology for Data Integrity

Guardtime's Keyless Signature technology enables Cognuse, to offer trustworthy, tamper-evident e-health products by providing proof of origin, time, and integrity for all data processed by the CognuseManager system, including patient health records.

Guardtime's Keyless Signature technology enables Cognuse, creator of the world's most comprehensive executive functions rehabilitation system, to offer trustworthy, tamper-evident e-health products by providing proof of origin, time, and integrity for all data processed by the CognuseManager system, including patient health records.

The Guardtime integration into CognuseManager, which is the central management system for Cognuse's products, will cover all critical data within the system, including web server SSL logs, application logs, anonymized/non-anonymized patient profile database transaction logs, patient health record database transaction logs, routine backups, and archived data. For future purposes, Cognuse is also looking into utilizing Guardtime's Keyless Signature Service for automatic PDF signing for patient progress and incident reports.

"In healthcare, making decisions based on accurate data is a matter of life and death. Guardtime's solution gives healthcare professionals a good reason for transitioning to e-health applications as they can be certain that the patient's data is valid and intact," said Mike Gault, CEO of Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ).

"Guardtime keyless signing technology is an easy-to-use solution for e-health applications and plays a critical role in building the trust required within our target medical community in several markets. Processing of patient health records is constantly being scrutinized for privacy and security concerns and we are excited to be working with Guardtime in getting a step closer to a highly trustworthy e-health application," said Andres Mellik, CTO of Cognuse.

About Cognuse
Cognuse produces and manufactures systems and devices specifically for cognitive rehabilitation. Cognuse's clients are professional healthcare service providers who specialize in brain health treatments, diagnostics, and rehabilitation services - facilities such as hospitals with in-house mental health rehabilitation, mental health rehabilitation clinics, and elderly care institutions.

About Guardtime:
Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in computing: how to be sure electronic data is authentic. Guardtime's Keyless Signatures provide proof of origin and that not a single bit has changed since a specific point in time. The verification of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime's mission is to change the world to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the everyday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http://www.guardtime.com for more information about using Keyless Signatures for signing your data.

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