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Crescent Communications, Inc. is a value-added network provider (VAN) focused on the small business and enterprise-level market segments providing industry specific end-to-end solutions for vertical markets such as healthcare. Crescent provides wireless, DSL and traditional communication technologies using several regional and national carriers. Crescent also delivers managed services from its ATM core fiber backbone network. Bluegate (http://www.bluegate.com) , a division of Crescent Communications, Inc., was conceived to give the medical community sound, secure technology and support that meets emerging requirements from the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). HIPAA, passed by the U.S. Congress, mandates that the entire U.S. healthcare industry process all healthcare information, including billing and record storage, through a secure data interchange.