Sydney, Australia - March 26, 2007 - Australian healthcare solutions provider, TrakHealth, today announced a strategic alliance with Newport Scientific Research (NSR), provider of the FBiDrive fingerprint biometric security platform.

The alliance highlights increased security needs in the healthcare industry and TrakHealth’s ongoing commitment to providing the most comprehensive solutions to its customers.

As a primary element of the alliance, TrakHealth will integrate support for NSR’s FBiDrive fingerprint authentication into the user security subsystem of TrakCare. The TrakHealth portfolio of healthcare applications, including TrakCare PAS, TrakCare Clinicals and TrakCare electronic patient record modules, are built around a core infrastructure and management tools which allow the seamless introduction of the biometric technology regardless of which modules the customer has deployed.

The biometric technology will also be integrated in order to identify patients, thus addressing the growing concerns of healthcare fraud, and also presenting the opportunity to improve patient care by reducing misidentification of patients. “There is a real opportunity to improve care, possibly even to save lives by providing a way to positively identify patients. Accidentally pulling up the wrong patient information in a system or mistyping of a patient ID could lead to prescribing medicine which the patient is allergic to, or worse, giving totally wrong treatment. We saw this as an opportunity to improve care and to reduce litigation risk for the hospital or clinic,” said John Shanahan, Vice President of NSR.

The FBiDrive provides a flexible biometric platform which can be implemented to meet the unique requirements of a healthcare operational environment. “The ability to meet the fast paced, multi user environments of our customers while improving security was a key factor in our adoption of the FBiDrive platform,” commented Christine Chapman, COO of TrakHealth. “The addition of support for biometrics helps our customers achieve improved security for patient records, reduces the opportunity for fraud, ensures the ability to audit transactions, and aids in compliance,” continued Chapman.

“Sophisticated application suites like TrakCare have the ability to precisely control access within applications, including information elements and transactions. But the problem is, business rules embedded in a system are only useful if you can ensure the identity of the user. Studies have consistently shown that users share passwords as a matter of convenience or other reasons,” added Shanahan. “Statistically, two thirds of your user base shares passwords, so how can you ensure business process enforcement?” Shanahan continued.

About Newport Scientific Research
Newport Scientific Research is a U.S. based technology company with offices in Newport Beach California, Seoul, Korea, and Dubai, UAE. FBiDrive Security Platform with FBiSureID™ technology is a complete biometric security solution for desktop, network resource, and application authentication. The FBiDrive is a USB biometric device with an advanced fingerprint sensor, secured flash memory, and a software suite for secured file storage, encryption, and operating system and application authentication. FBiDrive, FBiSureID, the FBi logo, and Biometric Roaming are trademarks of Newport Scientific Research, LLc. U.S. and International patents pending.

About TrakHealth
Founded in 1991, Australian-based TrakHealth (www.TrakHealth.com) develops and markets the TrakCare Web-based healthcare information system (HIS), providing improved care for every person by empowering every healthcare professional. Setting TrakCare apart is the revolutionary “FastTrak to ePR,” a combination of technology, architecture and methodology that delivers patient-centric care solutions at unmatched speeds with ePR benefits realized from the very first module. Installed in leading healthcare organizations in over 25 countries, TrakCare quickly and seamlessly integrates ePR information from existing legacy systems and multi-vendor solutions. TrakCare’s unrivalled flexibility means that systems can be easily customized to work the way healthcare professionals work.