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February 14, 2005
RxHub and Performance Partners Demonstrate an Immediate Impact in Reducing Medication Errors and Saving Costs
RxHub and Performance Partners Demonstrate an Immediate Impact in Reducing Medication Errors and Saving Costs
Electronic Prescribing Initiatives Continue to Enroll Thousands of Physicians
Across the Country; Removing Barriers to Adoption While Improving Patient
Safety, Efficiency and Cost Savings
DALLAS, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- RxHub(R), the leader in connecting the
prescribing industry for the exchange of patient-specific prescribing
information between physicians, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and
pharmacies; is working with industry leaders in advancing electronic
prescribing across the country. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) estimates that use of eprescribing technology could eliminate
as many as 2 million adverse drug events and save tens of thousands of lives
each year. Barriers are being removed as collaboration continues to drive
acceleration in health information technology adoption.
RxHub is proud to be part of this national solution working with the
industry's leaders in providing technology solutions to physicians that impact
health care quality and cost. Allscripts, DrFirst, Inc., HealthRamp,
Healthvision, Inc., InstantDx, McKesson, MedPlus, a Quest Diagnostics Company,
New Crop, LLC, NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., Phytel, Inc.,
RelayHealth Corporation, RxNT and Zix Corporation are the first to participate
in the RxHub Performance Partner for ePrescribing Program.
As a performance partner there is a commitment to demonstrating clinical,
operational and financial results that improve patient safety, increase
workflow efficiency and reduce costs. RxHub, through alliances with the
largest PBMs that serve over 100 of the nations' leading health plans and
insurers, can provide physicians easy, real-time access through their
technology vendor of choice, pharmacy benefit and medication history at the
point of care. The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) and RxHub
continue to partner in providing a single source for formulary data covering a
majority of commercially insured Americans.
"We are clearly seeing the immediate impact of these industry leader's
efforts to drive physician adoption as RxHub is generating over 1 million
transactions per month, indicating substantial industry experience and
support," said David McLean, CEO of RxHub. "Clinicians and patients can make
the best decisions when they have the right information at the right time.
These performance partners are making that possible today. In the past
decade, the risk of harm caused by medical care has received increasing
investigation. As we enter the decade of health information technology
driving better health outcomes we can make an immediate demonstrable impact by
partnering and collaborating to achieve a culture of safety."
About RxHub LLC
RxHub LLC is the company that electronically routes up-to-date patient
medication history and pharmacy benefit information to physicians in their
offices. The delivery service RxHub provides is designed to enable access to
patient medication history and benefit information so that physicians can make
better informed decisions at every point of care. RxHub's ultimate goal is to
help reduce the risk and occurrence of medication errors and adverse drug
events, and to lower the number of deaths, injuries and disabilities that
result annually. RxHub was founded in 2001 by the then three largest PBMs-
Advance PCS (acquired by Caremark Rx), Express Scripts and Medco Health
Solutions. RxHub is headquartered in St. Paul, MN. For more information,
please visit http://www.RxHub.net .
SOURCE RxHub LLC
Web Site: http://www.rxhub.net
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