L.A. CARE HEALTH PLAN PARTNERS WITH ZYNCHROS TO EXTEND THEIR LEADERSHIP ROLE IN EPRESCRIBING
Zynchros.com provides the flexibility and power to automate vital, but time-consuming tasks
Seattle, WA – 7, November, 2006 – Zynchros, Inc. (formerly Script IQ, Inc.), the leading formulary management company announced today that L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public HMO, will expand the use of Zynchros’ web-based formulary management and distribution services. L.A. Care will make Zynchros’ web-based formulary management system available to its health care subcontractors and partners.
“L.A. Care is committed to improving clinical care and patient safety for our nearly 800,000 members who come from low-income and vulnerable communities,” said Phil Banks, Director of Pharmacy at L.A. Care Health Plan. “Zynchros has been a terrific partner in our effort to reduce redundancies in formularies, and the technology they supply has helped ease L.A. Care’s transition into e-prescribing.”
“We are delighted to have L.A. Care as a valued customer and partner in extending the Zynchros solution to their plan partners”, said Marc Lilly, CEO of Zynchros. “L.A. Care’s commitment and innovative approach to ePrescribing has made it very exciting for us to work with them. The Zynchros.com formulary translation and publishing feature set eases the transition to ePrescribing for our clients and technology vendors. We are very pleased that we can provide partner formulary managers access to our formulary workflow engine, so that L.A. Care can offer the most accurate and timely formulary updates available today to the point of care.”
ABOUT L.A. CARE HEALTH PLANS
L.A. Care Health Plan is a local public agency and health plan serving residents of Los Angeles County through a variety of programs including Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids. With more than 750,000 enrolled members, L.A. Care is one of the largest health plans in California, and is the nation’s largest public health plan. L.A. Care is a leader in developing new programs through innovative coalitions and partnerships
designed to support public health, the safety net, and health insurance coverage for vulnerable populations. For more information, visit www.lacare.org.
ABOUT ZYNCHROS, INC. Founded in 2000, privately-held Zynchros, Inc. (formerly Script IQ, Inc.) delivers technology-based solutions that transform the economics of drug-based wellness, improving compliance and agility of health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers. The Zynchros.com on-demand platform provides the workflow processes necessary to initiate pharmacy quality management, improving responsiveness, control and efficiency by synchronizing all of the participants in pharmacy benefits, from P&T to the point of care. To learn more about how Zynchros is interconnecting the world of pharmacy benefits visit www.zynchros.com or call 1-866-996-2476.
For more information contact:
ZYNCHROS, INC.
Terry Christiani
206.792.4106
terry.christiani@zynchros.com