The leading provider of prescription drug care in the United States. The company distributes over one million drugs through its mail order pharmacies, and manages an additional 6 million drug claims from retail stores.

To increase the company's competitive position in the Prescription Benefit Management market by establishing a secure electronic prescription order/fulfillment channel to directly interface with physician workstations, mail order pharmacies, retail pharmacies, and other business partners. 

By extending the information contained in the company’s back-end systems to its business partners, all entities involved would realize significant benefits.

	Design, build, test, and implement an intelligent hub to serve as a gatekeeper between the company’s legacy systems and external business partners.
	Build a secure, standard physician order entry interface to integrate the application into various physician Health Information Network Systems.

XML, XSL. 
cobol,cics,db2, OS390

The client engaged Galaxy Solutions Services shortly after defining the business requirements, and some of the functional requirements for the project. Our team interacted with representatives from all impacted systems to further explore, define, and document the functional requirements.

Galaxy delivered a project team of 15 senior application developers, each of whom possessed pharmaceutical expertise, as well as over 12 years of application design and development experience. Galaxy developed the hub by using cobol, cics, and DB2, and the secure interface by using XML and XSL. 

	The company fills more e-prescriptions in one day than do PlanetRX and Drugstore.com in one year.
	The company’s legacy systems are secure
	The e-prescription initiative has improved the ease and quality of the prescription fulfillment process.
	Reduced transaction processing time for all entities
	Real-time validation of patient prescription eligibility
	Real-time notification of dangerous drug interactions, new drug information, and patient medical history.
	The company now has a documented record of the system to provide outside auditors and internal staff.
	The client completed the project on time and under our estimated budget. The customer would have incurred significantly higher costs and longer deadlines had they developed the application internally.