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PDX Partners With Google Health to Make Prescription Data Available to Patients

Posted on: Monday, 25 August 2008, 09:00 CDT

FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- PDX and Rx.com announced today that they have entered into a strategic agreement with Google Health(TM) to make prescription data, managed for multiple chain and independent pharmacy clients, accessible to Google Health users. The agreement enables any pharmacy using the PDX EHR or the Rx.com Electronic Prescription Record to import their customer's prescription history into Google Health. The PDX pharmacy EHR client base includes over 55 million patients.

Duane Reade is the first PDX client to start integration with Google Health. Each PDX pharmacy client will have their own independent relationship with Google Health, while PDX serves to technically integrate the pharmacy with the Google Health platform.

"PDX is pleased to be the first aggregator of multi-pharmacy electronic prescription records to enter into a strategic relationship with Google. This new agreement will allow our pharmacy customers -- both chain and independents -- the ability to integrate client prescription history into Google Health at the user's request," said Ken Hill, R.Ph., founder and CEO of PDX and Rx.com.

The PDX EHR currently includes almost 3000 pharmacies across the United States, representing over 55 million patients and over a half-billion prescriptions. Another 1000 pharmacies, representing an additional 15.6 million patients and 250 million prescriptions, are implementing the EHR over the next 12 months.

"We believe users should have access to their prescription history and medical records and should be able to organize this information in one safe and centralized place," said Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience. "Working with PDX will enable several nationwide pharmacies to connect with Google Health, giving millions of patients access to their own personal data."

Google Health is a new product that offers patients the ability to collect, store and manage their medical records online. The product is free to users and only requires a username and password to get started. Users can sign up today for Google Health at http://www.google.com/health/.

How the Partnership Works:

Currently, patients can access their prescription history from their pharmacy's web site linked to the PDX-Rx.com co-location facility in Dallas, Texas. With the Google Health integration, clients who aggregate their data in either the PDX EHR or the portable and interoperable Electronic Prescription Record at Rx.com can get copies of this data downloaded into Google Health user accounts.

This allows PDX customers the ability to integrate their prescription data with Google Health. As a result, patients will be able to view a more complete prescription profile that may include medical records from a variety of pharmacies and healthcare providers.

Google Health users must explicitly provide consent to any PDX pharmacy client to import their prescription history into Google Health and/or share Google Health profile data back to the pharmacy. Google Health also allows users to share their medical data with other providers, which ultimately helps to better coordinate care.

To learn more about Google Health or sign up to use it, visit http://www.google.com/health.

About National Health Systems, Inc. and Rx.com Partners, LP

Located in Fort Worth, Texas, National Health Systems is the parent company of PDX, Inc., and National Health Information Network, Inc. (NHIN). PDX was established in 1985 and continues to build on its commitment to retail pharmacy and patient care. Providing excellence in pharmacy software technology, PDX addresses the requirements of high volume prescription filling and the pressing demands of third party processing. Over 11,000 retail drug stores use PDX software technology to fill, bill, and track prescriptions. NHIN was established in 1990 to meet pharmacies' need for centralized data. Today, NHIN is an industry leader in data standardization and accounts receivable submission and reconciliation services -- working with over 300 processors and processing over 9.7 million claims a month, with a 99.7% payment rate. NHIN also provides standardized drug and third party plan file and maintenance services. For more information, visit http://www.pdxinc.com/.

Rx.com Partners, LP -- an affiliate of National Health Systems -- provides an integrated suite of technology and services to the Pharmacy industry including retail-based mail order and traditional central fill services; a portable, interoperable Electronic Prescription Record currently housing over five hundred million prescription records; centralized data files; MTM/pharmaceutical manufacturer performance programs; and electronic prescription technologies. For more information, go to http://www.rx.com/.

Comprising a single, integrated solution no other single provider or group of technology providers can offer, the PDX-Rx.com and affiliate eRx Network, LLC suite of products and services is specifically engineered to reinforce Pharmacy's trusted role in healthcare as it enhances profitability, regains ground lost to PBMs, and delivers even better patient care.

PDX-Rx.com

CONTACT: M. Todd Whitley, Director, Communications of PDX-Rx.com,+1-817-578-4494, or +1-817-367-4212

Web site: http://www.pdxinc.com/http://www.rx.com/http://www.google.com/health/

Source: PRNewswire

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