Medco Breaks Ground For World's Largest Automate... ( Medco's mail-order pharmacy in Boone...)

Medco Breaks Ground For World's Largest Automated Pharmacy

Date:3/11/2008

Medco's mail-order pharmacy in Boone County to house world class research center in country's Indianapolis region, an epicenter for life sciences Center aims to bring innovations of personalized medicine into mainstream

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WHITESTOWN, Ind., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS), joined by Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, broke ground today on its $140 million automated pharmacy at AllPoints at Anson, and also announced plans to establish a world-class research center for personalized medicine within the pharmacy. The center will feature active collaborations between Medco, universities and the area's colleges of pharmacy to investigate how to deliver more precise pharmacy care through innovations in personalized medicine.

Medco President and Chief Operating Officer Kenneth O. Klepper announced the research center at the groundbreaking for the automated pharmacy, which will cover an area equivalent to six-and-a-half football fields. The mail-order pharmacy is expected to start operating early in 2009 and will be able to dispense one million prescriptions a week when it reaches peak capacity in 2012. Using the most advanced technologies, the automated pharmacy will exceed Six-Sigma(R) accuracy levels, delivering the highest level of prescription drug dispensing accuracy in the pharmacy industry.

The Personalized Medicine Research Center in the Anson pharmacy will provide a unique setting for leading academicians and Medco to evaluate ways to translate the latest science into improved pharmacy care. The research center's objective is to study -- in various combinations -- clinical drug data, genetic testing and medical claims data in ways that will
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