The company's mission is to advance the efficiencies of the prescription writing and dispensing system and, in so doing, help to increase patient safety and convenience, while reducing administrative costs.

RxHub is sharing these specifications with the entire industry in an effort to build an electronic prescription infrastructure that is beneficial and efficient for all participants. The company is actively seeking industry input. Once all suggestions are collected and evaluated, a final version of the specifications will be published. RxHub will use the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) standards as they apply today and will work with the appropriate work groups to enhance the standards to meet any newly identified business needs, and move these specifications through the standards process.

``We have created operating specifications to provide drug benefit information and route prescription communications electronically,'' explained RxHub CEO Jim Bradley. ``We encourage everyone in the industry to submit their comments and suggestions to us. We believe that this will prove to be highly beneficial to all participants in the prescription writing and delivery process, including, most importantly, patients.''

The specifications created by RxHub with input from industry-wide representatives are available on the company's recently revamped web site at http://www.RxHub.net . Comments regarding the specifications may be sent to RxHub through the web site or by fax to ``specifications feedback'' at 1-651-855-3001. RxHub encourages visitors to its web site to view all of the benefits that the company offers to its constituents.

RxHub will hold industry workgroups scheduled for April in Washington, D.C. and May in Chicago. For more information on how to participate please contact RxHub by calling toll free 1-866-765-1684.

Industry leaders, such as Glen Tullman, Chief Executive Officer of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions (Nasdaq: MDRX - news), say they believe a standardized set of specifications will greatly benefit the entire industry. ``One critical driver to increase the adoption of electronic prescribing, and thus increase patient safety and efficiency, is an accepted set of standards. RxHub has taken on the challenge of providing the industry with one set of open specifications to link all the parties.''

RxHub is building the framework that enables standardized communication throughout the prescription writing and delivery process. The company aims to improve the prescription-writing process by establishing a single standardized channel of communication that will link all parties in the delivery chain -- physicians, pharmacies, technology providers, PBMs and benefits plans. The electronic prescribing process that RxHub's communication hub promotes will enable greater safety, convenience, and cost savings, while improving coordination with a patient's benefit plan.

RxHub LLC is a health care services company focused on accelerating and facilitating the universal adoption of electronic prescribing. RxHub links prescribers, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers for the purpose of exchanging prescription benefit information and enable prescribers to transmit prescriptions electronically to pharmacies, to significantly improve clinical care, patient safety, and administrative efficiency. RxHub was founded in February 2001 and is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn. 

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