Surescripts Expands Interoperable Network to Over 300 Hospitals, 230M+ Patient Records Accessible in EHR

Surescripts today announced that it’s expanding access to clinical records of more than 230 million patients to a growing group of clinicians across 295 hospitals nationwide. Through the Surescripts Network Alliance, more clinicians can now leverage its Record Locator & Exchange for a more complete view of patient history data directly in the EHR.

Successfully delivering past care locations and summaries from outside a given region or health system remains a challenge for many healthcare professionals. That’s why the Surescripts Network Alliance built a secure, nationwide interoperable health data exchange network to provide healthcare professionals with actionable patient intelligence for safer and more informed decisions at the point of care.

 

Consider these facts:

– In 2017, more than 51,000 clinicians using the Record Locator & Exchange located 26.4 million documents explaining where patients received prior care. And they exchanged four million clinical records during the last three months of the year alone. 

 

– A clinical study of Sacramento-based Sutter Health’s emergency services showed that Record Locator & Exchange is one of the health system’s top clinical document trading partners, representing nearly 50 percent of its total non-Epic patient link sources.

 

-The study noted that of the nearly 50 percent of patients with new external clinical documents available, 30 percent of clinicians acted on drug-drug and drug-allergy interaction alerts by modifying or cancelling the prescription.

 

Successfully delivering past care locations and summaries from outside a given region or health system is no small task. It requires the strong and rapidly expanding cross-market collaboration that the Surescripts Network Alliance has forged over its 16 years as a neutral, independent organization operating a secure nationwide network for interoperable health data exchange.

Today, the Surescripts Network Alliance includes virtually all electronic health records (EHR) companies, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), pharmacies and clinicians, and an increasing number of health plans, long-term care and specialty pharmacy organizations, who collectively transmit nearly 13 billion transactions via the network annually, including nearly five million e-prescriptions every day.

 

“In an industry focused on value and quality, Surescripts plays a critical role in giving healthcare professionals the ability to both locate and exchange patient records to make safer and better informed care decisions,” said Tom Skelton, Chief Executive Officer of Surescripts. “The progress achieved across the Surescripts Network Alliance in 2017 marks a critical milestone in advancing the nation’s interoperability goals outlined by ONC in the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.”