WALGREEN CO
			Symbol			WAG

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Electronic Prescriptions Reach 4 Million Mark at Walgreens in October

2009-11-09 14:05 ET - News Release

Company Website: http://www.walgreens.com/about/press/default.jsp
DEERFIELD, Ill. -- (Business Wire)

Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG):

• Monthly total increases 185 percent over year ago
• E-prescribing promotes goals of health care reform as it lowers costs and improves adherence to drug therapy
• Federal stimulus package further bolsters electronic prescribing

Walgreens (NYSE: WAG)(NASDAQ: WAG) pharmacies, which have used electronic prescribing since 1992, filled a record 4 million prescriptions electronically in October, about 22 percent of all the drugstore chain’s eligible prescriptions and a 185 percent increase compared with October of last year.

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