MedVantx Announces Inclusion of its Consumer Driven, Low Cost Prescription Mail Order Program into the Surescripts® Network

SAN DIEGO, June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- MedVantx, Inc., a leading provider of medication access, adherence and direct-to-patient consumer programs, announced today that patient specific prescription data from the Company's consumer driven prescription mail order program is now included within the Surescripts® network and available to providers who use electronic health record (EHR) applications that connect to Surescripts.  Surescripts is the nation's largest health information network and partners with more than 700 EHR applications used by over 900,000 healthcare professionals.

Health information exchanges (HIEs) are in the national spotlight as a strategy to increase transparency, enhance healthcare delivery and improve outcomes.  Over the past ten years, growing healthcare costs have led to increased adoption of low-cost prescription drug programs as a means to significantly reduce out-of-pocket expenses for consumers.  However, data from these programs often are not integrated into the patient's comprehensive medical record, limiting visibility by health insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers and healthcare providers.  Data visibility is critical to achieve safe and effective clinical care and to drive innovation in population health management research and initiatives.  By having data from its consumer driven prescription mail order platform included within the Surescripts network, MedVantx ensures greater visibility to prescription data than other prescription programs that do not share information across HIEs.

"With a national focus on patient safety and health information exchanges, secure sharing of consumer health data is becoming an expectation for all health care service providers and technology support vendors such as those providing electronic medical record applications," said Melissa Halgas, Director of Managed Care Programs at MedVantx, Inc.  "MedVantx created first ever access to claims-based prescription medication data in physician offices through the Company's proprietary "ATM-like" medication management and sampling system, MedStart-Connect™.  By working with Surescripts to have data from our growing consumer driven prescription mail order program available through the Surescripts network, we are now allowing providers to have greater visibility to their patients' medical history and contributing to the health and safety of our consumers."

About MedVantx, Inc.

MedVantx is an innovative medication management and delivery company committed to streamlining access, reducing healthcare costs, increasing medication adherence and enhancing patient satisfaction while improving patient quality of care and outcomes.  The MedStart Connect program provides for a fully-automated, integrated, point-of-care to consumer home delivery channel focused on increasing the quality and cost effectiveness of the last non-managed pharmaceutical channel – the physician office sample closet.  MedStart Connect includes free initial therapy samples of prescription and over-the-counter medication at the point of care, a consumer helpline providing drug information and adherence management services and convenient consumer home delivery through its mail order pharmacy.  The national MedVantx network has served over 4 million consumers through an integrated network including health plans, manufacturers and more than 4,000 prescribers in diverse care settings.

For company information, visit www.medvantx.com.  For information on MedStart Connect, visit www.medstart-connect.com.  

MedVantx Contact: Patrick D. Woo(858) 964-1498
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