Southampton, Pennsylvania – March 25, 2002: Launched in time for the NCPDP Convention in Phoenix Arizona (March 24-27,2002), ePostRx™ provides the communication and management technology that focuses on the growing concern over the shortage of qualified Pharmacists and high fatality rate due to prescription errors in the United States.

The Pharmacy industry faces three major issues today: a doubling prescription drug use since 1989; 12,000 +/- unfilled pharmacist positions; and 7,000 deaths per year attributed to prescription errors. In 1999, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 50% of these errors were reduced when doctors used electronic prescribing (ePrescribing). The marketplace has been slow to adopt ePrescribing, however, due to the lack of communication and management technologies that business partners need to connect and manage their electronic prescription transactions.

According to John Strecker, President and CEO of ANS, "It’s an exciting time for us. ANS has developed the industry’s first and only JAVA-based B2B solution that solves the operational and technological issues that currently face healthcare providers. Electronic prescriptions and digital transactions are forcing providers to reevaluate their corporate infrastructure to accommodate the new standards. ePostRx™ allows clients to preserve their current technology investment and still participate in the new age of digital pharmacy."

Strecker went on to say, "The ability to translate existing prescriptions into an electronic format will save pharmacies time and money for many processes that are manual or error ridden as they exist today. Enhancing pharmacy workflow, converting store files, implementing central fill or creating a new pharmacy workflow are just some examples of processes that can be addressed ‘digitally’ by ePostRx™."

Visitors of the ANS website (www.anshealth.com) can evaluate ePostRx™ on-line prior to product purchase. Developers who wish to learn how to implement ePostRx, can download the ePostRx™ Client Toolkit, containing the ePostRx™ API, ePostRx Bridge, documentation and ‘getting started’ examples. They can then test these examples with the on-line ePostRx™ B2B server and monitor data exchange messages by accessing the ePostRx™ Management Console on-line.

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