AmikaNow! Announces HIPAA Privacy Protection for Email with the AmikaGuardian Email Compliance Server

Ottawa, January 28, 2004 - AmikaNow! announces release 2.2 of the AmikaGuardian email compliance server, to solve enterprise requirements to meet tough privacy laws including the US Privacy Act and HIPAA.

Today, over 40 billion emails will flow in and out of corporations, Government offices and enterprises, according to IDC. Email drives 97% of communication in the enterprise, and 75% of all documents circulate through email. Clearly, email is a core asset whose traffic is managed but whose content is neither monitored nor risk managed.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/) protects the privacy of patient healthcare records while providing access to them in electronic or paper form. As of April 14, 2003, all healthcare organizations, including clinics, doctors, hospitals, HMOs, insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals, must adhere to HIPAA. AmikaNow! CEO Dr. Sue Abu-Hakima explained, “Privacy compliance is now an urgent concern for over 64,000 American healthcare organizations. HIPAA and global privacy legislation are wide in scope, and any enterprise that does not comply is risking serious financial and legal penalties. AmikaGuardian is a robust, automated solution to safeguarding private healthcare information transported by email.”

Jenifer Aitken, from the Privacy and Access to Information Group at the legal firm Borden Ladner Gervais further cautioned, “Organizations must establish policies and procedures to ensure they collect, use and disclose personal information in a manner that complies with the law. The task of ensuring everyone in the organization follows these policies is even more challenging. Organizations should carefully consider all the tools that are available to assist with monitoring compliance. A breach of privacy laws can result not only in legal liability but also in significant poor publicity and loss of customer confidence."

The AmikaGuardian’s sophisticated scanning technology automatically and in real-time analyses emails against patterns to avoid sending out sensitive information. It allows flexible handling of non-compliant email, with options such as returning it to sender, or logging it in corporate archives. The end result is that the enterprise protects itself from the release of unauthorized protected information.

Protection against spam and viruses is included in the AmikaGuardian as it analyzes both inbound and outbound emails. This is an ideal companion for email archiving solutions important to regulators. It facilitates the automatic categorization of emails and quick search through email archiving solutions. It also includes sophisticated forensic analysis capabilities.

About AmikaNow! Corporation

AmikaNow! is a private company focused on protecting enterprises from violations of privacy (e.g. PIPEDA, PA, FOIA), healthcare privacy (e.g. HIPAA) or securities regulations (e.g. SEC, NASD, SOX) in their email. The company uses its patented content analysis technology to analyze email and electronic documents. The AmikaGuardian™ Compliance Server helps the enterprise adhere to corporate and regulated policies for government, healthcare and financial customers. It includes highly accurate anti-spam handling. AmikaNow! also OEM’s high performance toolkits that automatically filter, categorize, search and summarize.

To find out how AmikaNow! solves HIPAA and privacy compliance in business processes and email communications, please visit www.amikamobile.com or contact us at management@amikanow.com or at 613-599-4445.

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