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January 25, 2006

RxHub Participates in Medicare Electronic Prescribing Pilots

RxHub Participates in Medicare Electronic Prescribing Pilots.

RxHub Participates in Medicare Electronic Prescribing Pilots

    Partnerships Demonstrating the Impact of Electronic Health Information
                    Exchange in Improving Quality of Care

    ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- RxHub(TM) the largest nationwide

prescription information network connecting the prescribing industry for the

exchange of patient-specific prescribing information between physicians,

pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and pharmacies continues to demonstrate its

leadership position in providing value by supporting three electronic

prescribing pilot projects that received grant awards from the US Department

of Health and Human Services.

    RxHub working collaboratively with grant awardees; RAND Corporation, Santa

Monica, California, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, and

Achieve Healthcare Technologies, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, will test new

standards named by the Secretary of HHS for electronic prescribing, their

interoperability with current foundation standards and provide additional

related information to help improve quality and lower cost as part of the

Medicare Modernization and Prescription Drug Improvement Act.

    The new Medicare Part D program requires that an electronic prescribing

program be established that provides eligibility and benefits inquires and

responses between drug prescribers and prescription drug plans; formulary and

benefit coverage information, including information on the availability of

lower cost, therapeutically appropriate alternative drugs; secure real-time

delivery to providers and pharmacists patient-specific medication history at

the point of prescribing; and transmission of the prescription electronically

between prescribers and dispensers.

    "RxHub is pleased to support President Bush's April 2004 call for

electronic health records (EHRs) within 10 years and we share the President's

mission to reduce the overall cost of health care delivery while improving

patient safety and quality of care for all Americans," said David McLean, CEO

of RxHub.  "The new Medicare Prescription Drug program is one example that

demonstrates the federal government's commitment to move forward on this

promise and to support the transformation of the American health care delivery

system that will lead the world in providing the highest quality of care."

    RxHub played a major role in the development of eprescribing standards

that will be tested in these pilots.  RxHub at the request of the National

Committee of Vital Health Statistics and HHS, submitted its proprietary

standards for Formulary and Benefit messages and Medication History

information to NCPDP, a standards setting organization, which resulted in both

standards receiving ANSI-accreditation in late 2005.

    "RxHub is thrilled at the opportunity to work with three of the winning

applications, substantiating the value of providing critical patient-specific

information to physicians at the point of decision making.  Improving the

safety of health care delivery is about having the right information at the

right time," added McLean.

    The outcome of these one year pilots will be an evaluation and

determination of final uniform standards for electronic data exchange as

required by the Medicare Modernization Act.  Compliance to these standards

will be required in 2008.

    About RxHub LLC

    RxHub electronically routes up-to-date patient-specific medication history

and pharmacy benefit information to caregivers at every point of care.  Our

end-to-end solution enables physicians to prescribe the most clinically

appropriate and cost effective prescription to be sent electronically to the

patient's pharmacy of choice.  RxHub's mission is to partner with all

stakeholders in the prescribing industry to improve patient safety, increase

workflow efficiency and reduce the overall cost of health care delivery.

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 .

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