ZoomMed, Inc., a provider of networking solutions and services for the medical sector, has revealed that ZoomMed USA, its fully owned subsidiary, has entered a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Myca Health, Inc., a supplier of diversified IT solutions to the U.S. medical community. Just a few days back, the company had achieved Surescripts certification, which offered it access to the medical market within the nation.
The company offers an e-Pic network that helps patients, physicians, pharmacists and pharmaceutical corporations to communicate and interact effectively. Apart from the network, ZoomMed also provides ZRx Prescriber, a Web application that runs on a wireless device or computer that can be used by a prescriber for writing a prescription with embedded barcode. It helps the pharmacists to scan and retrieve script information on line, and also provides the prescriber with a mobile source of information coming from the pharmaceutical corporations, as well as from private and public institutions.
Myca Health, a Canada based company has selected the ZRx electronic prescriber ZoomMed to be integrated within its Electronic Medical Record (EMR) solution. The company has already developed a fully integrated Web application that had specifically been designed for the U.S. medical community, and has implemented its “Hello Health Network’” in collaboration with a well-known hospital network in the U.S. The Hello Health Network has been described as “part electronic medical record, part practice-management system, and part social-networking site, complete with profiles and photos of doctors and patients, all in a secure environment that complies with federal privacy standards,” by Fast Company.
After it was awarded with the Surescripts certification recently, ZoomMed expressed its confidence to be able to rapidly penetrate the U.S. market because as it believed the ZRx prescriber to be much more efficient and easier to use, than the eRx solutions that have been on the market for a long time .
“I am particularly proud that Myca Health has adopted our ZRx prescriber, knowing full well that we will be replacing one of the two industry giants, used until now by Myca Health,” said Yves Marmet, president and chief executive officer at ZoomMed. “This decision is very revealing and represents an external confirmation of our own perception of how our prescriber compares to others.”
In June 2010, ZoomMed introduced its e-Pic network in Quebec and Ontario with a number of affiliated pharmacy banners, including Uniprix, Clinique Sante, Unipharm, Familiprix, Zellers, Brunet, Proxim, Centre Sante, Clini-Plus, Rexall, Walmart, Prince Theodore Group and Remedys Rx.
Raja Singh Chaudhary is a contributing editor for HealthTechZone. To read more of Raja's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
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