Cerner has announced a collaboration with Surescripts to integrate their Real-Time Prescription Benefit functionality into the Cerner Millennium electronic health record (EHR). Surescripts Real-Time Prescription Benefit will integrate directly into the physician’s workflow to provide patient-specific prescription information at the point of care.Prescription benefit information at the point of care will help facilitate engagement between individuals and their physicians to find the prescription
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United Healthcare, DrFirst Launch App to Tackle Med Adherence with Drug-Price Transparency
The high cost of prescription drugs is one of the top causes of patient medication non-adherence, resulting in avoidable emergency department and hospital admissions, as well as longer term poor patient outcomes. With the transition to value-based care finally becoming a reality, this challenge must be addressed — and quickly — by leading healthcare organizations. To address this critical issue, UnitedHealthcare and DrFirst has announced the launch of PreCheck MyScript, a new app that delivers
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How True Price Transparency Is Only 3 Lines of Code Away
Editor's Note: Lori Mehen is the Founder & CEO of Medlio, healthcare’s only social CRM – a new technology designed to help providers better engage with their digitally-empowered customer base. I have an allergic reaction to all the haughty industry wonks who run around talking about healthcare price transparency like it’s some kind of mythical grail. In fact, their core belief is that it’s impossible to know how much a doctor’s visit is going to cost before it happens.In an age of big data
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Big Insurance Giants Partner to Provide Price Transparency Tools to Consumers
Aetna, Humana and United Healthcare have announced that it will work with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) to develop and provide healthcare price transparency tools for consumers.
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