U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AND U.S. …

U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AND

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

ELECTRONIC PRESCRIPTIONS FOR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES (EPCS)

July 12, 2006

Crystal City Marriott 1999 Jefferson Davis Highway

Arlington, Virginia

Proceedings By: CASET Associates, Ltd. 10201 Lee Highway, Suite 180 Fairfax, Virginia 22030

(703)352-0091

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Vendor Perspectives Panel Michael Burger James Chen Nigel Johnson Russ Thomas

State Perspectives Panel Adele Audet Danna Droz Charisse Johnson Lisa Robin

Law Enforcement Perspectives Panel Lisa McElhaney Robert Nicholson William Winsley

Open Microphone

Closing Remarks

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(8:35 a.m.)

MR. CAVERLY: If we have any additional

panelists, if they could take the stage, please, and any

questioners, we will get started this morning.

Welcome back. For those of you who were not here

yesterday, let me just welcome you to this DEA and HHS

sponsored two-day public meeting on electronic prescribing

for controlled substances.

If you were not here yesterday, you missed a lot

of conversation. We had three different panels

representing the physicians, practitioners and technology,

and we received a lot of good information. We appreciate

particularly public comments at the end of yesterday's

session, and we will have an opportunity to provide

additional public comments at the end of today's sessions.

So once again, welcome.

I was struck, if I can editorialize a moment,

yesterday from DEA's standpoint, the Controlled Substances

Act is at the heart of what we do. That is what we have

been asked to enforce. This is such an important public

health and welfare issue. It was emphasized to me

yesterday how important this is.

So that is the end of my editorializing. Once

again, welcome to this second day.

We are going to begin pretty immediately with the

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vendor perspective this morning. We have on our panel scheduled Michael Burger, who is the product manager, eprescribing, for Emdeon Practice Services, James Chen, who is the chief executive officer for DrFirst, Nigel Johnson, who is the vice president for product management for Zix Corporation, and Russ Thomas, who is the chief executive officer for Gold Standard. We have allowed approximately 15 minutes for each one of our presenters, and then following the format of yesterday, we will also permit questions, both from the HHS side of the house, as well as from DEA.

So once again, welcome. Michael Burger, I think you are first up.

Agenda Item: Vendor Perspectives Panel MR. BURGER: Good morning, everyone. Thank you very much for the opportunity to participate today. My name is Mike Burger, and I am the product manager for clinical products at Emdeon Practice Services. As well I am the director of strategic clinical initiatives, which is a fancy name for catchall for these kinds of things. So I get to go out and represent our company's perspective. Emdeon Corporation is composed of a couple of different parts, some of which are household names. Part of our company is , which is our consumer facing web portal. The other part of it is , which is

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the physician facing web portal. You have read the statistics and the press releases, I'm sure. WebMD particularly is very, very widely used on the consumer side. Medscape is the largest CME provider, online CME provider in the country today.

Emdeon Business Services is another division of our company. It was formerly known among other things as Envoy. It is the largest health care EDI network in the country. This year we are going to process nearly three billion health care transactions. Every single one of those contains PHI, claims, eligibility, prescriptions, pharmacy to PBM transactions, those kinds of things. So we have got lots and lots and lots of experience, lots and lots of transactions, in the health care EDI business.

Last but certainly not least is Emdeon Practice Services, which is the division of the company that I represent. There are a couple of different products that we have in the marketplace, among them the medical manager, PCN and Versus and Entergy, which is our growth product.

We are the largest of the practice management software vendors. There are about 180,000 physicians that are using one of our products in their offices. All of those physicians are using our billing and scheduling product. The new frontier is the electronic health record, and there are a growing number of those physicians that are

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