L.A. Care Health Plan Partners With Zynchros to Extend Their Leadership Role in ePrescribing
Posted on: Tuesday, 7 November 2006, 15:01 CST
SEATTLE, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Zynchros, Inc. (formerly Script IQ, Inc.), the leading formulary management company announced today that L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation's largest public HMO, will expand the use of Zynchros' web-based formulary management and distribution services. L.A. Care will make Zynchros' web-based formulary management system available to its health care subcontractors and partners.
"L.A. Care is committed to improving clinical care and patient safety for our nearly 800,000 members who come from low-income and vulnerable communities," said Phil Banks, Director of Pharmacy at L.A. Care Health Plan. "Zynchros has been a terrific partner in our effort to reduce redundancies in formularies, and the technology they supply has helped ease L.A. Care's transition into e-prescribing."
"We are delighted to have L.A. Care as a valued customer and partner in extending the Zynchros solution to their plan partners", said Marc Lilly, CEO of Zynchros. "L.A. Care's commitment and innovative approach to ePrescribing has made it very exciting for us to work with them. The Zynchros.com formulary translation and publishing feature set eases the transition to ePrescribing for our clients and technology vendors. We are very pleased that we can provide partner formulary managers access to our formulary workflow engine, so that L.A. Care can offer the most accurate and timely formulary updates available today to the point of care."
About L.A. Care Health Plans
L.A. Care Health Plan is a local public agency and health plan serving residents of Los Angeles County through a variety of programs including Medi- Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids. With more than 750,000 enrolled members, L.A. Care is one of the largest health plans in California, and is the nation's largest public health plan. L.A. Care is a leader in developing new programs through innovative coalitions and partnerships designed to support public health, the safety net, and health insurance coverage for vulnerable populations. For more information, visit http://www.lacare.org/.
ABOUT ZYNCHROS(TM), INC.
Founded in 2000, privately-held Zynchros, Inc. (formerly Script IQ, Inc.) serves Health Insurers and PBMs with a family of web-based formulary solutions that provide a solid foundation for the development and implementation of our customers' unique formulary strategies. Zynchros.com is designed to reduce operational costs for formulary development and management; simplify Medicare Part D regulatory reporting; and electronically distribute formularies to all downstream recipients in their preferred format, all at the click of a mouse.
Headquartered in Seattle, WA, the company's solutions are used by many leading health insurance plans and PBMs to control pharmacy benefit costs, reduce workload and synchronize all things formulary from P&T review to the point-of-care. For more information, visit http://www.zynchros.com/ or call 1-866-996-2476.
Zynchros, Inc.
CONTACT: Mary Jochum, Director, Marketing Communications of Zynchros,Inc., +1-206-792-4106, or Mary.jochum@zynchros.com
Web site: http://www.lacare.org/
Web site: http://www.zynchros.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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