DpRx and News

     DpRx.com is an International company that specializes in providing MCOs a Facility Management approach to PBM operations where the MCO owns the PBM without any material investment made. The company is strategically located in Nevada for the purpose of providing substantial advantages for taxes and privacy.

     DpRx.com licenses the computer products of its affiliate company: DP/Rx Corporation. This company provides the PBM software to DpRx.com as a major part of its PBM Facility Management programs.

     DpRx.com has PBM operations in Nevada and DP/Rx development and software maintenance is located in California.

     Two former employees formed a PBM-like service bureau with the software already developed and continued the Drug Claims processing business with the former customers. This service bureau grew rapidly and after several years was acquired by a Pharmaceutical manufacturer. The IBM based software moved to another company called PBS, Inc. PBS was engaged by AT&T who invested nearly two million dollars in new development that was intended to support a vertical marketing strategy directed to the Pharmaceutical industry.

      The PBS/AT&T product was expanded to a real-time, on-line drug claims processing system which was a new innovation for the industry at that time. AT&T decided to abandon their existing vertical market strategy and disbanded 50% of their marketing staff in late 1987 when the software product was just completed.

      FHP, Inc of Fountain Valley, California was impressed with the newly re-engineered software, called TeleCLAIM, and was secured as the company’s first customer in early 1988. Within a short period of time all claims were on-line in PBM mode for an FHP membership of 400,000 using over 600 pharmacies comprised of independent pharmacists and all major chain stores (Sav-on, Thrifty, Payless and Longs).

     Many innovations were developed for FHP in the next four years of processing that provided a leading edge technology for their regional HMO operations. In 1991, the company pursued other clients with this first micro-computer, real-time, on-line processor. Shortly thereafter, the first turn-key user was installed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama at Harco Stores.

      DP/Rx’s unique support product, called "Night Watchman", made possible this bare-bones staffing operation. "Night Watchman" is a product, operating on another computer remote from the TeleClaim installation, that simulates the actions of a pharmacy sending claims every few minutes. In the event of a system interruption, "Night Watchman" detects the interruption and dials the human operator’s pager to signal a problem such as loss of power or system failure.

     TeleClaim was designed to enable easy-to-change benefit plans without the aid of DP/Rx technicians. The product providing this pharmacist-friendly control is called "PlanBuilder". This product is a PC level program that takes a Pharmacist through 12 pages of "Fill-In-The-Blanks" logic that enables very complex management of multiple benefit plan inclusions, exclusions, special pricing, and a plethora of customized controls. Thus, DP/Rx objective of providing simple-to-use computer systems to the pharmacy industry was demonstrated with the Harco installation.

     January 2000 was a major announcement occasion for DP/Rx. A comprehensive group of new complementary products were released for interested clients. This group was inclusive of several new Internet systems and Voice Response systems. This product group opens the door for inclusion of Physicians and Pharmacists in the time critical prescription dispensing process. The voice response products are designed to assist in the Disease State Management challenge that improves compliance and outcomes as a result

     The Internet products are also vital to the development of the South American market that is devoid of the data communication carriers such as NDC, ENVOY and MedeAmerica. The DpRx.com products will enable economical interaction between the pharmacies, physicians and the central controlling processor. Installations in Chile and Argentina utilize this new technology since early 1999.

     Brief description entire spectrum of DpRx.com products are included in this presentation. The reader is encouraged to review these products for an overall comprehension of DpRx.com capabilities.

     Presently, DP/Rx technicians are far into the development of a much more efficient use of data communication resources. The current DP/Rx development is focused on an optimal replacement of the existing communications services that have been entirely dominated and controlled by a few firms like NDC, ENVOY and others.

     A DP/Rx product announcement was made in early 2000. TeleCLAIM was expanded to include Internet functionality. This enables several collateral products that introduced Physicians and Pharmacists to the drug dispensing process.

     Clearly, DP/Rx defines its corporate strategy as one that will, by technical innovation, respond to new opportunities, suited to its computer and healthcare industry knowledge and skills. These opportunities will emerge as a result of changing and dynamic growth brought on by industry demands. This industry is rapidly merging into one monolith of total medical services requiring the availability of integrated and comprehensive patient information and databases.