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Health Market Science and SureScripts(R) Automate Prescriber Matching for Electronic Prescribing; Partnership Integrates SureScripts Provider Identifier into the HMS Provider Master File

Posted on: Tuesday, 29 August 2006, 12:00 CDT

Health Market Science, Inc. (HMS), the leading manufacturer of healthcare provider data in the United States, today announced that it has integrated the SureScripts(R) provider identifier into its master provider database. Once a physician is activated on the SureScripts Electronic Prescribing Network(TM), HMS will receive the prescriber's identifier for electronic prescribing and integrate it into its physician database. This allows for easier and faster updates to physician files at a pharmacy. SureScripts has more than 90 percent of the nation's pharmacies certified for e-prescribing.

Mark Brosso, president and CEO of HMS noted, "Integrating the SureScripts provider identifier automates the updating of the physician file in the pharmacy system. Today's announcement continues our long-standing commitment to helping customers seamlessly integrate valuable new technologies."

"With more and more physicians getting connected for e-prescribing every day, we want to make it as easy as possible for pharmacists to identify and verify these new electronic prescribers," said Bob Beckley, senior vice president of pharmacy relations and product strategy at SureScripts. "Integrating SureScripts provider information with the HMS Provider Master File(TM) does just that by giving pharmacies an automated means of updating newly connected physicians in their pharmacy database."

About Health Market Science

Health Market Science (HMS) is the leading manufacturer of healthcare provider data in the United States. HMS has developed unique technology and expertise to continuously acquire, analyze, and integrate over 2,500 distinct data sources to create and maintain the single most comprehensive and accurate source of healthcare provider information available today. The HMS Provider Master File(TM) includes detailed reference information for over 4.5 million individual providers and 1.0 million healthcare organizations.

Serving all segments of healthcare, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechs, device manufacturers, payers, providers, and pharmacy chains, HMS is the only company that offers both healthcare-specific data integration services and the reference data that powers them. This unique combination results in dramatically higher data accuracy and reliability, enabling our customers to increase revenues, drive operational efficiencies, achieve regulatory compliance, and maximize market opportunities.

Recognized two consecutive years by the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, our more than 125 customers include 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical manufacturers, 10 of the 15 largest device manufacturers, and 2 of the top 5 pharmacy chains. HMS is a privately held company located in King of Prussia, PA. For more information, visit www.healthmarketscience.com.

About SureScripts

SureScripts(R), the largest network provider of electronic prescribing services, is committed to building relationships within the health care community and working collaboratively with key industry stakeholders and organizations to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of health care by improving the overall prescribing process. At the core of this improvement effort is the SureScripts Electronic Prescribing Network(TM), a health care infrastructure which establishes electronic communications between pharmacists and physicians and enables the two-way electronic exchange of prescription information. Today, 90 percent of all pharmacies in the United States are certified on the SureScripts network. More information about SureScripts is available at www.surescripts.com.

Source: Business Wire

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