Tuesday January 29, 10:03 am Eastern Time Press Release SOURCE: HealthFlash INTACTA Signs Co-Marketing Agreement with HealthFlash Partnership Provides Quick Response to HIPAA Privacy Gap ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002-- INTACTA Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:ITAC - news) and HealthFlash, Inc.  announced today at the 2002 Annual HIMSS Conference Exhibition, a co-marketing  agreement to assist healthcare organizations with compliance, accreditation and strategic performance management. Under terms of the agreement, the companies will consult with each other's customers to address security and privacy gaps that are identified through HealthFlash's HIPAA Assessment Tools, which can be resolved with INTACTA's Healthcare workflow, fax and email products. ``Intacta's simple approach to securing existing fax and email systems is  critical to fill the HIPAA privacy gap that exists for any healthcare organization that electronically transmits, stores or uses identifiable medical or mental health information. Our suite of applications will seamlessly integrate compliance management with their safeguards,'' said David Smith,  HealthFlash's CEO. ``Once protected health information becomes non-electronic, by being printed for example, it is more difficult to afford it the protection of the safeguards  in the proposed HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule,'' said INTACTA President and  CEO Noel Bambrough. ``INTACTA's Express & Bridgeway products were designed to address both electronic and printed forms of patient information. Hospitals, clinics, health insurance companies, small physician practice groups, with  existing fax and email systems, can quickly and easily adopt these products,'' he added. HealthFlash clients with immediate concerns about unsecured fax machines and use of open email systems may deploy INTACTA Express(TM) - Healthcare Edition, a  simple and easy to use Windows application. Express is designed to provide  ``point to point'' sharing of Protected Health Information (PHI) across standard  fax & email systems. Express works with both Microsoft Outlook and Word and provides ``out of the box'' secure faxing and email and also supports scanning for hard copy documents. Healthcare organizations requiring a secure client/server environment can use  INTACTA Bridgeway(TM). Bridgeway provides a secure messaging center and workflow environment addressing inbound and outbound email, fax, and document sharing among physicians practices, hospitals, payors and clearinghouses. Bridgeway's  open architecture provides integration to back-end systems. Prior to HealthFlash, healthcare organizations did not have a centralized, efficient way to manage projects key to record keeping and government regulatory compliance. HealthFlash offers flexible, efficient and secure solutions to promote collaboration and accountability among team members of healthcare  systems by managing all information related to projects, performance measurement, tasks, meeting and documents. About HealthFlash HealthFlash has emerged as a leader in providing software solutions for  compliance to the healthcare industry. Whether the healthcare organization is an integrated delivery system, hospital, physician group, health maintenance  organization or an ancillary healthcare provider, HealthFlash brings software solutions to senior management with tools that focus on strategic initiatives  and managing organizations more efficiently. HealthFlash's software applications  assist healthcare organizations with projects, accreditation, compliance, and document management. HealthFlash's suite of tools allows hospitals, managed care organizations, and other healthcare entities to manage their compliance process for JCAHO, NCQA and URAC standards, HIPAA and CMS regulations, and other programs being mandated by federal and state agencies -- providing better management of their compliance, accreditation, and strategic projects through a  single enterprise-wide application. HealthFlash is being used by Kaiser Permanente, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia, and Catholic Healthcare Partners among many other healthcare providers. For more information, contact 678.566.4726, email [email protected] or visit www.HealthFlash.com. About INTACTA(TM) Technologies Inc. INTACTA (OTCBB:ITAC - news) is a U.S. based software company headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. INTACTA has built a patented solution  for workflow (email, fax, PDA, paper) in the healthcare market. Through compression, encryption, and error correction and encoding engines,  Intacta makes the transfer of patient information and other related healthcare information easy to integrate into office processes, simple to use and assist Healthcare Organization's address security & privacy requirements. For more  information, contact (404) 880-9919, or visit http://www.intacta.com/. Forward-looking statements This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and  uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those  set forth in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and are used for identification purpose only.