SAN DIEGO -- Neoteris, the leading provider of instant virtual extranet (IVE) products, today announced that Partners HealthCare, an integrated health care system that provides services from preventive primary care to long-term care, is rolling out Neoteris' IVE to deliver secure access to healthcare applications and patient information for doctors and users on the go. The IVE will be demonstrated this week at the Healthcare and Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 2003 Annual Conference and Exhibition in San Diego in Neoteris' Booth No. 1551.Partners HealthCare, founded in 1994, provides an integrated healthcare delivery system that offers patients a continuum of coordinated high-quality care, including primary care and specialty physicians, community hospitals, academic medical centers, specialty facilities, community health centers, and other health-related entities. Powered by Neoteris' IVE, member physicians and administrators now remotely access the Partners Community Healthcare Inc. network (PCHInet), a secure portal of healthcare applications, patient records and test results, general medical information, and message boards, from any computing device enabled with a Web browser. The IVE interoperates with RSA SecurID® two-factor authentication, from RSA Security (NASDAQ: RSAS), which is Partners HealthCare's strong authentication technology of choice for two-factor authentication for Neoteris."The Neoteris IVE gives our diverse community of users access to the information they need wherever they are," said Scott Rogala, Partners HealthCare corporate manager of network engineering. "Our VPN was not optimal for delivering application access wherever our users needed, but the IVE has solved our remote access problems and has taken the complexity out of remote access for us. It simply makes sense to deliver access through the clientless, browser-based IVE, and users are very happy with the experience. Our goal is to do the best things for the patients, and providing access to PCHInet through the IVE enables our caregivers and administrators more widespread access to the information they need to give our patients the best care possible. The fact that the IVE works seamlessly with our RSA SecurID infrastructure was important in our selection of Neoteris, as well."Neoteris Inc.