About Us
TelePharmacy®, Inc. (TPI) is the nation’s oldest prescription transmission firm. TPI was started in 1990 in the Washington, DC metropolitan area with a computerized fax network that allowed physicians to fax prescriptions to patients’ preferred pharmacies. TPI’s prescription system has continued to evolve as technology has evolved. During this period, the fax prescription transmission system has been upgraded to an electronic prescription system using TPI’s proprietary software placed on physician’s desktops; to an Internet Portal as an Application Service Provider (ASP); and is now offering an entirely new Internet Portal dedicated to the communication between patients, physicians and pharmacies. This new network is called the Medical Network Service (MNS) and is listed as www.mednetservice.com. MNS is in addition to the TelePharmacy® Portal, which contains the medical practice websites.
The TelePharmacy® Portal is the private, secure and confidential Portal where each medical practice’s website is located. The use of TelePharmacy® is confined to the medical practice physicians and their agents. TelePharmacy® is used for the preparation, transmission and storage of new and authorized refill prescriptions. The websites contains such private and confidential information as DEA numbers, previously transmitted prescriptions and patient data.
The MNS Portal permits direct Internet communication between health care providers and their patients within a secure and confidential system. Now patients, using MNS, are able to communicate 24 hours a day with their physicians or pharmacists, at their convenience. Patients may ask their physicians non-urgent medical questions, make appointments and request prescription refill authorizations. Patients may also request refills directly from their pharmacies.
The development of HealthCarePersonnelFinder.com is the outgrowth of the knowledge and experience TPI has gained supporting its current operations. While the need for health care personnel is increasingly high, the problem is that many positions must be filled immediately and, in many cases, the local personnel pool is limited. This makes the Internet the most useful vehicle for employers to view, select, and hire potential employees faster from a larger pool of applicants.
TPI’s Milestones
January 1990
TPI implemented the nation’s first fax prescription network system in the Washington, DC metropolitan market.
July 1992
TPI won approval from the Maryland and Virginia Boards of Pharmacy to operate its fax prescription network.
August 1992
TPI signed agreement with Giant Food of Maryland to receive TPI’s faxed prescriptions.
June 1994
TPI has installed the fax prescription network at over 300 medical practices in the Washington metropolitan area.
September 1996
TPI completed the development its first electronic physician’s desktop prescription transmission system.
November 1996
TPI introduced its new electronic physician’s desktop prescription system to Giant Food Pharmacy manage
December 1997
TPI obtained the Maryland Board of Pharmacy’s approval to conduct a ninety day Proof of Concept demonstration of its electronic prescription system using a large Internal Medicine practice and two Giant Food pharmacies.
July 1998
TPI obtained the Maryland Board of Pharmacy’s approval to operate its electronic prescription system in 10 Maryland counties.
August 1998
TPI obtained the Pennsylvania Board of Pharmacy’s approval to operate its electronic prescription system in Pennsylvania.
August 1998
TPI introduced its electronic prescription system at the National Association of Chain Drug Stores conference in San Diego, CA.
May 1999
TPI completes the installation of the electronic prescription system’s network in the Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC markets.
August 1999
TPI signed an agreement with Giant Food Pharmacy for the installation of the electronic prescription system.
August 1999
TPI obtained the South Carolina Board of Pharmacy’s approval to operate the electronic prescription system in South Carolina.
October 2000
TPI signed an agreement with SAIC for the development of XML tags using the National Council of Prescription Drug Program (NCPDP) Script format.
January 2001
TPI signed an agreement with SAIC for the development and implementation of an Internet Portal for the electronic transmission of prescriptions between physicians, patients and pharmacies, using XML Document Type Definitions (DTD) transmissions from desktops, cellular telephones and wireless PDAs.
May 2001
TPI signed an agreement with AT&T to provide TPI’s participating physicians with Internet connectivity.
August 2001
TPI completed the Physician’s Internet Portal. Each physician has a secure and confidential website which contains the physician’s prescription pad, medication and pharmacy databases, and patient records.
March 2002
TPI signed agreements with several major healthcare providers in the Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC markets for the installation and operation of the Physician’s Internet Portal system.
April 2003
TPI completed and began marketing its new Medical Network Service (MNS). MNS represents the total integration of all network communications between patients, physicians and pharmacies.
Services and Products
TelePharmacy® - Medical Practice Websites
Practice/Physician – Each practice has its own private, secure and confidential website. The website contains the prescription pad for each physician in the practice with that physician’s name, DEA number, address, telephone number and the name of the agent, if an agent is submitting on behalf of the physician. Each practice website also contains the patient database and previously transmitted prescriptions for each patient, for accountability and re-authorizations. The practice website has individual physician mailboxes for physician’s appointments, lab results, online consultation requests, patient’s refill authorization requests, and peer messaging.
Medical Network Service
Patient Accounts
Each patient is provided a private, secure and confidential website account for the storage and management of his personal information, including appointment schedules, prescription refill requests, medication history and online consultations.
Appointments Scheduling
Patients can search and select their physicians and submit appointment requests with their desired dates and times. They can receive their physicians’ available dates and times, and confirm their appointments. There will also be a record of all their requested and confirmed appointments.
Physicians can receive and confirm patients’ appointment requests. The physicians are able to check their appointments at anytime from any place.
Broadcasting
Physicians can broadcast special messages to all or any category of their patients.
Health Plans Administrators can broadcast any changes regarding rates, physician status and other information to their subscribers.
Electronic Prescriptions
Physicians can prepare and transmit new prescriptions and refill authorizations from their secure and confidential practice websites to the patient’s preferred pharmacies.
Patients can transmit their requests for prescription refills to their preferred pharmacies. The patient’s system maintains a log of all transmitted requests that can be printed so that each of the patient’s physicians will know what other physicians have prescribed.
Refill Authorizations
Patients can submit requests to their physicians for refill authorizations of medications that have run out of refills.
Lab Results
Physicians can receive lab results directly to their practice website from testing laboratories for patients under their care, and can notify their patients regarding the lab results.
Patients can receive their lab results directly from their physicians.
Online Consultation
Patients can submit an email questions to their physicians for online consultation regarding non-urgent medical matters.
Physicians can receive and respond via email to their patients’ non-urgent consultation requests.
Peer Messaging
Physicians can transmit secure and confidential messages to their peers regarding patient care or any other subjects.
Referrals
Physicians can directly refer patients to other physicians for specialty consultations.
Patients can use the Appointment system to schedule appointments with the referred physicians.
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