Surescripts’ Post

Announcing the 2024 Surescripts White Coat Award winners! With their dedication to performance, innovation and accuracy, this year’s winners have been instrumental in moving the #healthcare industry forward. They exemplify what it means to be a leader for patient safety and we’re so proud to celebrate their accomplishments. https://sure.sc/4eoLkoe

https://sure.sc/4dWW504 A new case study from KLAS Research shows the value of collaboration across the Surescripts Network Alliance. It follows the journey of two healthcare organizations and a pharmacy benefit manager as they worked with Surescripts to accelerate the prior authorization process. See what we accomplished together: https://sure.sc/4dWW504

https://sure.sc/3Nu82PX Those of us who work in #healthcare do so for many reasons. For Troy Tazbaz, it stems from a health tragedy that struck close to home. Tazbaz shares on our podcast: “Throughout that experience, I started observing what was happening within healthcare, where I believe technology could play in.” From there, his trajectory to healthcare began, and within a few years he received a call to join the FDA. Hear the story and impact of Troy Tazbaz on the season finale of our #podcast, “There’s a Better Way.”

Care teams are evolving. And that means pharmacists are becoming as essential to your care team as your physician. Surescripts is helping bring them all together by enabling collaboration and more innovative pharmacy services, like food-is-medicine care. https://sure.sc/4eFAXww

Health systems and clinics shouldn’t need to manually fill spreadsheets of patient prescription status. And yet that’s often the reality.     Baptist Health Louisville adopted a more streamlined, automated system with Medication History for Populations. https://sure.sc/4gCcadZ

https://sure.sc/3MZpYl6 Alexandra Drane was a successful entrepreneur with several businesses under her belt. And yet, she paused that life to pursue cashier and customer service work at Walmart for roughly 4 years. Why? And how did that connect to her later founding of ARCHANGELS, a platform that supports caregivers? “Like 90% of the country goes through a Walmart in any year,” says Drane on our #podcast. “Every single person who comes through, they are doing their best. They care for each other in the ways that they can, with the tools that they have. And I think the most foundational element of humanity is to care for others and to be cared for ourselves. That is universal.” From there, the path toward caring for unsung caregivers became clear. Hear the story of Alexandra Drane and Archangels on the latest episode of our podcast, “There’s a Better Way.”

We are thrilled to be partnering with CLEAR, adding another layer of identity validation protections while also increasing efficiency, providing a more automated and simplified experience for #healthcare providers and organizations. Tara Dragert said: “As we focus on simplifying health intelligence sharing, it's essential that we continue to enforce rigorous security standards while maintaining efficiency, ensuring clinicians and healthcare professionals have timely access to the clinical and benefit information they need to deliver quality, safe and less costly care for their patients.” “Our partnership with CLEAR is another example of how we are safeguarding the Surescripts Network Alliance to protect personal health information and patient safety and remain committed to providing innovative digital identity verification and reliability at scale.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/e--WzQy6

American healthcare lags behind other industries in terms of digital modernization. Why is that? There are lives at stake, says Susannah Fox, so we can't move fast and break things. But: ""I really believe that we are entering a new age where we're going to leave behind the mistakes of the digital past."" Here is how that new age will arrive—with patients demanding true interoperability and true access to data. It's all on our #podcast with host Melanie Marcus at https://lnkd.in/erafhbKc.  For more on the patient-led revolution in healthcare, read Susannah's new book Rebel Health (https://lnkd.in/g5NiKAPw)

Therapeutic Alternatives is still relatively new to Surescripts, read about all the different ways it helps organizations optimize their formulary. https://sure.sc/3zcRJn8