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Drug Info at Hand
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Business New Haven
6/24/2002
By: Melissa Nicefaro
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FARMINGTON - With a few taps of a stylus on a hand-held device, physicians participating with ConnectiCare can now check a drug's dosage, determine any potentially dangerous interactions, compare the drug's relative cost, and identify if it is covered under the patient's health plan, all on a handheld device.
ePocrates' “Rx Formulary,” a collaboration between ePocrates, ConnectiCare and national pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, is a new technology tool that allows physicians to check pricing and clinical information on more than 2,600 drugs before they write a prescription.
The new tool combines formulary information from ConnectiCare and other health plans, hospitals, provider organizations and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies with the clinical data from California-based ePocrates, a popular drug reference guide used by nearly 250,000 physicians.
“When doctors don't know a drug's formulary coverage at the point of care, consumers are often the biggest losers,” said ConnectiCare pharmacy director Jeff Casberg. “Giving doctors formulary information at the point of care means lower drug co-pays for consumers and shorter waits at the pharmacy.”
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