Surescripts, a health information network, is expanding to support population health management with its Medication History for Panel Management service for health systems, accountable care organizations (ACOs) and analytics vendors. The service, Medication History for Panel Management Service, comes at a time when managing population health is a top priority for care providers, especially in light of value-based payment models. Key features of the service include: · Delivers fresh, accurate
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SSM Health Goes Live on Surescripts National Record Locator Service
Today, Surescripts announced that it has activated more than 10,000 SSM Health clinicians in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma on its National Record Locator Service, to locate patient records and obtain a more complete view of the health of a patient, regardless of where the patient received care.Imagine the scenario: you are visiting the Chicago area, and you fall ill and have to visit the ER at one of SSM Health’s many hospitals in the region. You’re too ill to properly remember your complete
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Surescripts Activates National Record Locator to Improve Healthcare Interoperability
To improve healthcare interoperability and patient safety, Surescripts has announced nationwide activation of its National Record Locator Service, a service that gives providers an effective way to obtain a more complete view of a patient’s health history. Surescripts’ National Record Locator Service includes 140 million patients and almost 2 billion, and growing, interactions between those patients and members of their care team.
CVS Health, Express Scripts, Epic and NextGen Healthcare are
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The Evolution of E-Prescribing: 10 Years of Interoperability
While the successful achievement of industry interoperability has been given a 10 year window by the ONC, we luckily don’t have to wait that long -- or at all -- to see health IT interoperability in action. Electronic prescribing is the perfect example of successful interoperability happening right now, and in honor of National Health IT Week, e-prescribing platform Surescripts has created an infographic illustrating the evolution of electronic prescribing.
Here are a few milestones of
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