Merck-Medco and ChannelHealth Partner for ePrescription Services at Point of Care; Technology Improves Patient, Physician and PBM Relationship; Industry Evolving to a Single Standard

Business Wire,  Feb 2, 2000  

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&uot;We are very pleased with the added value service our agreement with Merck-Medco will provide to physicians in the care delivery process, especially in avoiding medication errors,&uot; said Richard E. Tarrant, IDX Chief Executive Officer and ChannelHealth Chairman of the Board. &uot; In addition to the benefits of up front formulary information, the ChannelHealth Merck-Medco solution helps ensure patient safety and helps physicians monitor patient compliance with important medication regimens.&uot;

ABOUT MERCK-MEDCO

Merck-Medco Managed Care, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Merck &Co., Inc., is the nation's leading provider of high quality, affordable prescription drug care, serving benefit plans of employers, unions, commercial and government health plans that provide benefits to more than 51 million Americans, including 14 million retirees. Merck-Medco Rx Services, its mail service pharmacy subsidiary, serves patients through 13 state-of-the-art mail service facilities, and its PAID Prescriptions, L.L.C. subsidiary manages prescriptions dispensed at 55,000 community pharmacies nationwide. Additional information about Merck-Medco is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.merckmedco.com.

ABOUT CHANNELHEALTH

ChannelHealth brings Internet healthcare services to physicians and patients, and connectivity and e-commerce services required to improve the physician/patient experience and support efficient healthcare delivery. ChannelHealth was launched in 1999. ChannelHealth's parent company, IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: IDXC), is the company of choice at more than 1,650 customer sites, serving 118,000 physicians nationwide. Founded in 1969, IDX Systems Corporation provides complete healthcare information solutions for integrated delivery networks including, group practices, MSOs, health plans, and hospitals. For more information about ChannelHealth, visit our website at www.ChannelHealth.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties including statements regarding the expected development of IDX's Internet strategy and the future benefits IDX expects to derive as a result of that strategy, including the operations of ChannelHealth. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are the volume and timing of systems sales and installations, length of sales cycles and installation process, seasonal patterns of sales and customer buying behaviors, disruption or failure of the public Internet or Internet systems of third parties on which the ChannelHealth's products depend, procurement, development and implementation of year 2000 ready products for internal use, procurement, development and implementation of year 2000 ready solutions for customers, the potential disruption of customer's purchasing plans due to work on their own year 2000 problems, development by competitors of new or superior technologies, delays in product development, undetected errors or bugs in software, product liability, changing economic, political and regulatory influences on the healthcare industry, changes in product pricing policies, competitive pressures, possible regulation of the Company's software and services by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services, general economic conditions, and the risk factors detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which important factors are incorporated herein by reference.

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