ZappRx Partners with Dr. Gary Goldman, Dr. Richard Cohen, and Zitomer Pharmacy to Launch Private Beta out of New York
Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) July 22, 2013 -- ZappRx (http://www.zapprx.com), a new mobile platform that simplifies and modernizes the prescription management process, today announces the launch of its first private beta test out of New York. Participating in the pilot are Garry H. Goldman, M.D., Attending Physician at Weill-Cornell Medical College and Richard Cohen, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
ZappRx improves the way doctors, patients, and pharmacists interact with one simple smartphone app for managing prescription payments and medical information. For the first time, doctors will be able to e-prescribe to their patients, patients will be able to order and pay for prescriptions electronically, and pharmacists will be able to pre-process insurance information and communicate digitally with the prescriber. Medication reconciliation, adherence verification, symptom tracking, refill requests, bill pay, and provider messaging are all done through the mobile platform.
The pilot will be conducted with Zitomer Pharmacy along with a subset of Dr. Goldman's and Dr. Cohen’s patients, who will be prescribed medication via the app.
“The existing method of e-prescribing is inefficient, opaque and inflexible, often times excluding the patient," said Zoe Barry, Founder and CEO of ZappRx. “With ZappRx, we hope to provide a solution so that all those participating in the healthcare ecosystem have a simple and effective way to manage prescriptions and so that, most importantly, the end user will be able to obtain medication quickly and safely. We are honored to have the support of two of the most respected and influential doctors in the country.”
ZappRx launched in May 2012 with friends and family backing from renowned physicist James Glimm, Michael Silverman, co-founder of the Fancy, and Dr. David Silverman, among others. The company has spent the past year developing and testing the ZappRx technology and plans to launch several beta tests in the coming months in medical practices and pharmacies across the US.
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About ZappRx
ZappRx is a mobile checkout tool for electronic prescriptions. Using a patient-centric application, ZappRx facilitates integration and sharing of EMR information. Patients access one simple and secure mobile repository housing their medication information, payment data, symptoms log, and refill requests. This centralized platform reduces administrative waste and accelerates coordination of care. Consistent with the shift in healthcare toward a P4P/accountable care model, ZappRx meets the CMS MU-2 requirements for electronic patient-provider communication.
ZappRx is on the web at http://www.ZappRx.com. Follow ZappRx on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/zapprx.
Chrysta Olson, The Olson Company, 310-709-2555, [email protected]
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