ChartConnect Leads Pacific Northwest, Nation in E-Prescribing with SureScripts

Yakima, Wa. – January 26, 2006 – Less than a year after becoming a SureScripts Certified Solution Provider™ in June of 2005, ChartConnect now leads the Pacific Northwest in the number of providers connected to SureScripts' electronic prescribing network through the ChartConnect EMR and MedManager online products.

Among e-prescribing software vendors nationwide, ChartConnect is also the leader, with the highest percentage of total providers that regularly access SureScripts' e-prescribing network.

Using ChartConnect's easy-to-use, intuitive online EMR and MedManager products, Northwest physicians benefit from two-way, electronic communication with pharmacies nationwide—making the process safer, faster and more efficient. This capability is powered by their connection to the nationwide SureScripts network.

With ChartConnect's e-prescribing products, physicians and their staff can better manage their patients' medications and allergies. By using the computer, instead of the phone, paper or fax to quickly and easily prescribing and refilling prescriptions at their patient's preferred pharmacy, physicians no longer have to wait on hold or re-send prescriptions, there are fewer mistakes due to illegible handwriting, and allergy issues or drug-drug interactions are automatically checked before a prescription is filled.

Part of ChartConnect's success getting physicians to regularly use ePrescribing is due to their ongoing effort to develop additional features to help providers and staff handle transactions in a consistent and timely manner. "ChartConnect works closely with our clients to integrate their ideas about streamlining the design of our product," said ChartConnect CEO Greg Jewell, "It's exciting when client and design team efforts end up with a pay-off like this."

Another key to their success is the number of local Northwest pharmacies that are signed up to use the SureScripts system. ChartConnect concentrates their marketing efforts on select communities and high-provider concentration, which helps encourage member-pharmacies in the area to activate use of the SureScripts system. David Murphy, Regional Director for SureScripts comments, "It is very unusual to see such high concentration of providers in a community all e-prescribing, and even more rare when most are using a single vendors’ product like ChartConnect."

About SureScripts
SureScripts, the largest network provider of electronic prescribing services, is committed to building relationships within the healthcare community and working collaboratively with key industry stakeholders and organizations to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare by improving the overall prescribing process. At the core of this improvement effort is SureScripts network, a healthcare infrastructure which establishes electronic communications between pharmacists and physicians and enables the two-way electronic exchange of prescription information. The SureScripts neutral, secure network does not permit commercial messaging at the point of care, protecting the doctor's choice of therapy and the patient's choice of pharmacy. More information about SureScripts is available at www.surescripts.com.

About ChartConnect.com
ChartConnect, Inc., based in Yakima, Washington provides a comprehensive electronic medical record for physician practices and hospitals nationwide. They are the leader in connecting healthcare communities to build the most easy-to-use online patient records available for patient care, anywhere. ChartConnect allows everyone involved in a patient's care to easily and securely access and share information by integrating with local healthcare providers. With full-featured productivity and decision support solutions, ChartConnect offers a complete patient management tool, helping physicians, nurses, and office professionals streamline workflow, save time and money, and improve patient care. ChartConnect, Inc. and its affiliates have provided premier healthcare services - including medical networks, practice management and billing systems - since 1985. Visit www.chartconnect.com or call 877-567-6825 for additional information.