Southampton, Pennsylvania – November 4, 2002: ANSHealth Solutions (ANSHealth), Inc., an exclusive provider of state-of-the-art ePharmacy solutions today announced the release of ePostRx™ version 2.0.

ePostRx™ is an enterprise solution that allows healthcare pharmacy partners to communicate and manage the Point-to-Point electronic transfer of NCPDP SCRIPT data among business partners, store locations and workflow queues. Developed using the latest Java and Internet security technologies, ePostRx™ preserves a pharmacy’s infrastructure investment by providing a middleware solution that can electronically interconnect store locations, improve workflow and connect to the new electronic prescription hubs like RxHub and SureScripts.

According to John Strecker, President and CEO of ANSHealth, "The healthcare pharmacy market understands there are tremendous cost savings in processing and managing prescriptions electronically, as well as inherent advantages such as enhanced workflow and increased patient safety and convenience. Unfortunately, the industry has been slow to adopt this new medium because current solutions don’t address the operational impact to the pharmacy and are too costly, antiquated and proprietary. ePostRx™ addresses these issues by providing a cost effective, open and secure middleware solution that is easily configurable to mirror a pharmacy’s business environment".

The new release extends the core SCRIPT engine and provides many new features such as a redesigned user interface; Full support for all industry NCPDP SCRIPT implementations, including NCPDP, RxHub and SureScripts; Real-time translation between SCRIPT version implementations; Support for the new NCPDP Provider Broadcast and Query (PBR) transaction; Support for RxHub Patient Medication History, Formulary Status and Point-to-Point Transactions; Expanded Rule Processing Engine that allows the creation of user defined rules that trigger on SCRIPT content to Reject, Re-direct or Forward the transaction, or execute a predefined function(s). Version 2.0 also includes ePostRx-WebConnect™, a web component that can be integrated into any business portal to provide technician access to pharmacy-to-physician SCRIPT transactions.

Strecker went on to say, "It’s an exciting time for ANSHealth. Just as the Internet economy has changed the way businesses acquire and deliver goods and services, ePharmacy will revolutionize how pharmacy businesses communicate and manage the operational flow of electronic prescriptions. We believe ePostRx™ will be a key component in ensuring their success".

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