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Federal Government Recommends NCPDP ePrescribing Standards Introduced by RxHub

Published in Law and Health Weekly, December 8th, 2007

RxHub, the nation's largest national patient health information network, is proud to announce that the ePrescribing transaction standards it originated for formulary and benefits and medication history have just been formally recommended for use in Medicare Part D. The transaction standards have been in industry use since 2005, and their proposed adoption for ePrescribing for Medicare beneficiaries was published in a Federal regulation in Tuesday's Federal Register.

In an effort to improve the functionality of ePrescribing, accelerate adoption, and help save lives, RxHub made its proprietary transaction standards available to the industry in 2005, which approved them...

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