36 New Features Enhance Patient Engagement
TORONTO, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Diversinet Corp.
(TSX Venture: DIV, OTCQB: DVNTF), a leader in secure mobile health
that "Powers Care Coordination through Mobility," has strengthened
its MobiSecure® mobile healthcare platform with 36 new
features in its 4.5 version release. The features help providers
and payers rapidly deploy simple, secure mobile applications and
improve care coordination and patient health outcomes.
The company's mHealth platform recently became the first to have
its encryption technology awarded Federal Information Processing
Standards (FIPS) 140-2 validation.
"Our new MobiSecure Version 4.5 will enable healthcare
organizations to more efficiently engage and activate patients in a
meaningful way," said Dr. Hon Pak,
Diversinet CEO. "We listened to the market, and we added
significant features to help our customers innovate rapidly with
mobile applications while overcoming concerns about protecting
personal data. Healthcare's understanding of engaging
patients/consumers in health and healthcare is evolving, and many
in healthcare are attempting to determine how best to engage and
activate our patients in a meaningful way. Diversinet's platform
supports this rapid innovation for patient engagement."
New MobiSecure features include:
- Autonomous alerts: This industry-first characteristic
means a patient's or caregiver's mobile device does not need to
have a cellular or Wi-Fi connection to issue alerts, such as
appointment or medication reminders. Apps can provide notifications
even when a user is in a rural area without cellular coverage or
has a device in airplane mode.
- App wakeup: MobiSecure enables apps to wake up a device
to issue an alert. This feature is important to users because it
eliminates the need for multiple clicks to open an app.
- Remote data wipe: If a user's device is lost or stolen,
MobiSecure enables a remote erasure of all data. This feature is
particularly valuable for an organization that develops apps for
physicians, home health workers and other caregivers under a
bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy that could otherwise create
risks of exposing confidential information.
Among many other new features are a connection indicator that
shows network status and an ability to select from a drop-down list
of unlimited length.
MobiSecure supports app development for a variety of uses,
including medication adherence, case management, physical therapy,
behavioral health, cardiac and vocational rehabilitation, and
sharing of personal health records.
Diversinet's patented technology enables healthcare
organizations to serve users with nearly all kinds of mobile
devices, including feature phones, smartphones and tablets that run
iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Java or Windows Mobile. Apps built on
MobiSecure may be configured once and then rapidly deployed across
multiple mobile operating systems, meeting customers' needs for
efficiency and flexibility.
MobiSecure can be used as a development platform, or healthcare
organizations can implement Diversinet's pre-configured solutions
to enhance care coordination, and patient and physician
engagement.
Customers using Diversinet-powered apps are future-proofed for
meeting government security requirements exceeding HIPAA
specifications. MobiSecure offers multi-factor authentication for
apps involving remote access to patient information, in line with
U.S. government standards proposed to take effect in 2015 with
Stage 3 of the HITECH Act's meaningful use incentive program.
About Diversinet
Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCQB: DVNTF) is answering the
challenges of today's healthcare landscape with a secure enterprise
mobile healthcare platform and integrated solutions. This
technology can be leveraged and customized quickly to meet the
ever-changing needs of healthcare organizations and patients -
driving patient-provider and payer communications and improving
outcomes while lowering costs. Learn more about Diversinet at
www.diversinet.com.
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