Southampton, Pennsylvania – AdvanceNet Solutions (ANS), a computer software company positioning itself within the emerging electronic prescription (ePrescribing) market of the $150 billion dollar domestic Healthcare industry, is ready to launch its ePrescribing management/ connectivity solution, ePostRx™, in time for NCPDP 2002.

ePostRx™ is a Java based Enterprise Management/Connectivity Solution for ePrescribing. Developed in full compliance with the NCPDP Version 4.0 Script standard, this middleware product not only facilitates the electronic participation of the industry’s independent, retail and chain pharmacy stores in the fulfillment of over 2.8 billion prescriptions, but can further streamline pharmacy intercommunication by intelligently routing prescriptions based on user defined rules. ePostRx™ is not pharmacy software, a Physician Ordering System, or even an Internet-based connectivity hub, it is the technology needed, by them all, to enable secure, efficient and 100% digital communication from Point-to-Point (P2P).

When asked ‘why the interest in ePrescribing,’ Mr. John Strecker, President and CEO of ANS and former founding owner and original architect of the Flux Technology Solutions mail order pharmacy system, NextRx™, said, “The industry has primarily focused on reducing prescription errors during Physician Order Entry (POE), through the use of electronic devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and prescriber services. However, this has created a problem because, until now, there have been no enterprise Point-to-Point solutions that provide for or assist in the real-time electronic delivery of a physician’s completed prescription. Not even the new ‘connectivity hub’ business model could claim actual advances in true connectivity with the development of their Internet-based subscription services,” Mr. Strecker concludes “In fact, new HIPPA regulations and script standards, with which compliance is already required, are quickly leading to the mandated need for 100% electronic prescription transmission and P2P delivery, most likely within the next two years.”

Designed as an N-tier enterprise web-application using the latest Java technologies and web browser interfaces, ePostRx™ is scalable to any network configuration as well as secure. It is portable across a wide variety of computer platforms, providing the ability to integrate into the existing corporate environment. By implementing the ePostRx Bridge™ on a pharmacy client, users can access the ePostRx™ server through the Internet or their Local or Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN) for secure, reliable P2P communications.

To learn more about ANS or ePostRx™, please visit http://www.anshealth.com