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Mobile Healthcare Blog | L.A. Care Health Plan Chooses Script IQ To Help Providers Improve Medication Prescribing

April 18th, 2005 | | Posted in General News, Partners |

Script IQ, the preferred medication management company, announced today that L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public health plan, has chosen the company’s innovative formulary build, prescribing and communications tools to help primary care physicians manage and improve medication prescribing. Top prescribing primary care physicians that participate in L.A. Care’s Pediatric Asthma Management Program will receive training in how to use Script IQ’s new payer formulary management tool (FormularyDynamIQs™), the personalized knowledge-based prescribing forms (ScriptIQs™), and create interactive relationships using ConnectIQs™.The goal is to increase prescription legibility and formulary compliance, reduce prescription errors, and improve the quality of prescribing and clinical care.

According to Philip W. Banks, Pharm D, Director of Pharmacy & Formulary for L.A. Care, “We believe that Script IQ’s tools can help us create and maintain formularies and improve the treatment practices of our physicians to the ultimate benefit of our members. Their program provides a novel and systematic approach to impacting prescribing practices. The ‘Children with Asthma’ program for our Healthy Families and Healthy Kids is an important effort for our organization and our young at-risk members.”

“We have been very impressed with L.A. Care’s thoughtful yet innovative approach to making a real impact on prescribing practices”, commented John Pierce, EVP of Business Development at Script IQ. “We’re excited about being part of the continuous improvement in the quality of care to L.A. Care’s members. Script IQ’s end to end solutions allow for effortless automated formulary creation and maintenance, personalized and targeted prescription forms with messages and real time content delivery that works. Today.”

Script IQ is a Seattle-based company that provides powerful Web-based formulary management, prescribing and physician connectivity tools to health plans and their medical group partners. Script IQ’s model is based upon creating solutions that are highly adoptable in nature. Script IQ is making medication management tools available to over 15,000 physicians in California. Mobile applications for formulary reference and ePrescribing are scheduled for release in early 2005. For more information about Script IQ go to http://www.scriptiq.com.

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 http://www.lacare.org.

InformIQs™, FormularyDynamIQs™, ScriptIQs™ and ConnectIQs™ are trademarks of Script IQ, Inc.