Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 08, 2014

mHealth Summit (both #1019)—Imprivata®, (NYSE: IMPR), a leading provider of authentication, access management and secure communications solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced that Imprivata Cortext® has received top honors in the Mobile Health Solutions category of the 2014 Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition. Imprivata Cortext is the secure communications platform for healthcare that enables more efficient, secure and reliable communication between providers inside and outside the hospital using smartphones, tablets and desktops. Imprivata will showcase Imprivata Cortext in booth #1019 at this week’s mHealth Summit.

“Winning a Fierce Innovation Award reflects what our customers already know: Imprivata Cortext delivers significant economic, productivity and patient care benefits across healthcare communication workflows,” said Ed Gaudet, general manager of the Imprivata Cortext Products Group. “Hospitals, ambulatory practices, and long-term care facilities continue to standardize on Imprivata Cortext to improve communications and remove inefficiencies in care coordination due to outdated technologies such as pagers and faxes.”

The Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition is a unique awards program from the publishers of FierceHealthIT, FierceHealthcare, and FierceMobileHealthcare. Solutions were judged on the following criteria: quality of care and patient outcomes, care efficiency, financial impact, market validation, and overall Fierceness and Innovation.

Imprivata Cortext enables secure mobile and desktop messaging across care teams and multiple healthcare organizations. Imprivata Cortext supports native platforms for iPhones, iPads, Android-based devices, BlackBerrys and desktops to improve communications and care coordination while addressing the inefficiencies of pagers and other outdated technologies. Imprivata Cortext also offers application programming interface (API)-level integration with leading third-party alerting, scheduling and EMR applications to allow providers to receive critical alerts, scheduling notifications, lab results and other information directly to their preferred device, which helps customers further streamline clinical workflow and improve care coordination.

About Imprivata

Imprivata is a leading provider of authentication and access management solutions for the healthcare industry. Imprivata’s single sign-on, authentication management and secure communications solutions enable fast, secure and more efficient access to healthcare information technology systems to address multiple security challenges and improve provider productivity for better focus on patient care. For more information, please visit http://www.imprivata.com.