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NAT IONAL DIALOGUE FOR
Healthcare Innovation
New Surescripts Service
Facilitating the Interoperability
of Medication Histories
Organization Overview
• Surescripts connects healthcare organizations,
pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), pharmacies,
and technology partners through the interoperability
of medication information to enhance care delivery
• The company is technology-neutral, integrating
into existing healthcare applications and workflows
• Surescripts partners with over 700 EHR applications,
over 1,000 hospitals, and over 1 million healthcare
professionals, processing more than 9.7 billion
transactions each year
Background
For accountable care to thrive, providers must advance
the aggregation and analysis of patient data across
a range of sources to inform clinical decisions. Panel
Management is a new interoperability solution from
Surescripts that empowers population health by connecting
healthcare organizations with high quality batch
download medication data for patient populations,
sourced from a nationwide network of pharmacies
and PBMs.
Hospital executives are acutely aware of the importance
of medication data interoperability for managing
population health. In a 2016 Health Catalyst survey,
80% of hospital executives believed that predictive
analytics could significantly enhance care delivery.
However, 32% of hospital executives indicated that lack
of appropriate data and infrastructure is the top barrier
to successful implementation of predictive analytics. 1
Product Details
Panel Management facilitates nationwide interoperability
across PBMs, pharmacies, integrated delivery
networks, accountable care organizations, analytics
vendors, and EHR vendors.
For this product, Surescripts delivers holistic batch
medication history data of entire patient populations
to customer organizations, giving them insight into
patients’ health during gaps between clinical care visits.
This data offers the following advantages:
• Provides more timely data (lags by 24-36 hours)
than data historically used by providers
• Provides greater data breadth (coverage) and
depth (number of discrete data points) than the
data historically used by providers
• Allows patient data to be identifiable and easily
ingestible into EHR and analytics platforms
Healthcare organizations can use this data to:
• Identify opportunities to reduce avoidable
hospital admissions
• More accurately risk triage patient populations
• Improve adherence
• Identify controlled substance abuse
• Identify gaps in care
1 Monegain, Bernie. “Health Catalyst: Hospitals Hungry for
Predictive Analytics but Only 30 Percent Use the Tech Today.”
Healthcare IT News. HIMSS Media, 06 Sept. 2016. Web.
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