Zix, the leader in hosted services for email encryption and e-prescribing, announced the latest version of PocketScript® 6.8 that includes extended prescription insurance verification and medication history featured enhancements to the Internet browser and prescription access interfaces. Zix’s success is driven by its powerful technology, especially in smaller practices, resulting in a platform for delivering real-time decisions support at point of care.
Aetna, a Zix customer since 2005 and one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, entered into an agreement to renew the sponsorship of physicians using PocketScript® in New York City Metropolitan area and Hartford, Connecticut following a successful e-prescribing expansion into those markets in 2006. In Addition, the eRx Collaborative in Massachusetts recently announced 2007 results that showed providers who used an e-prescribing device were able to choose more cost-effective drugs and saved approximately 5% on their drug costs considered in relation to those who have prescribed without using this technology.
Wayne Oliver, Project Director for the Center for Health Transformation commented, “Electronic prescribing represents the best hope for a better future for American patients. It is safer for patients, better for physicians and pharmacists and more efficient for the system. Zix Corporation has an e-prescribing service which physicians and health plans are implementing today. We are indeed excited to have Zix Corp as a member of The Center.” Zix Corporation join The Center of Health Transformation 9CHT), founded by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich that is a collaboration of private and public sector leaders committed to creating a 21st Century Intelligent Health System that saves lives and money for all Americans.
Rick Spurr, Zix Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer said, “Zix Corp remains as the forefront of the e-prescribing industry, whether enhancing our application beyond simple e-prescribing or improving patient safety and reducing costs through real-time decision support. Through our work with industry thought leaders, such as CHT, we will continue to educate patients, providers and legislators on how e-prescribing is a win-win situation for everyone. There has been growing support from both inside and outside of the government for mandating e-prescribing and, because of our recognized leadership in the industry; we have been actively working with the members of Congress and their offices to promote the adoption and utilization of e-prescribing.”
Zix Corporation’s PocketScript® e-prescribing service enables physicians to order prescriptions through a secure wireless mobile PDA or secure Web site and deliver them electronically to the patient’s preferred pharmacy. This mobility enables PocketScript® to provide clinical decision support at the point-of-care with real-time access to a drug reference guide as well as patient-level eligibility. This will aid the prescriber in selecting the most cost-effective prescription based on the patient’s benefits. The application also provides drug-to-drug and drug-to-allergy interaction alters. Through the partnerships with RxHub, RelayHealth and SureScripts, PocketScript® delivers connectivity within the health care system to enhance practice efficiency.
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