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High-Tech Tool for Premera Blue Cross MDs & Members Puts Drug Cost & Safety Info in the Palms of Their Hands; 6,000 Washington MDs, Nurses Linked Now; Consumers Can Be, Too.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 08-APR-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Business Editors, Health/Medical Writers

MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash.--(BW HealthWire)--April 8, 2002

Premera Blue Cross network physicians and members can now instantly compare costs of different prescription drugs and check for multiple-drug interactions in the exam room, before the prescription is written.

Premera's complete list of covered drugs, cost categories, and more, can be downloaded free over the Internet onto any handheld PDA device compatible with the Palm OS(R) system.

"Premera is the first Northwest-based health plan, and among the first in the nation, to put this power of informed choice literally into the hands of our doctors and members," said John Castiglia, MD, Premera's Chief Medical Officer.

"We realized that if Premera could supply drug-price information in a simple way -- at the...

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