Merck-Medco has the technology in place to electronically review millions of prescriptions, with opportunities to improve care and control costs. Partners for Healthy Aging and other drug utilization review programs significantly reduce inappropriate prescriptions, a common cause of adverse drug events among elderly Americans. The Nevada pharmacy dispenses prescriptions at a 99.9999998 percent error-free rate, making it the industry benchmark in quality, safety and productivity. We are building a second automated pharmacy in Willingboro, N.J., to be operational in the fall of 2001. In 2000, Merck-Medco launched four eHealth centers, offering trusted health care information and tools to improve health care and health outcomes, including personalized treatment reminders and health and wellness messages.
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Per Lofberg has relinquished his position as chairman of Merck-Medco to run the fund, called Merck Capital Ventures. In February 2001, Merck-Medco, AdvancePCS and Express Scripts, Inc. agreed to form a groundbreaking new venture that will develop an electronic exchange enabling physicians who use electronic prescribing technology to link with participating pharmacies, prescription benefit managers and health plans. Click here for more. Leading the global access debate So far, this report has addressed ways that physicians, payers and patients can access our medicines and information about them. But around the world today, there remains a larger debate on access.