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Clinical Interoperability
Inform treatment with shared clinical intelligence
Overview
Access more patient insights & easier communication
When patient information is out of reach or out of sight, danger emerges. The hard work of tracking down missing details adds to an epidemic of clinician burnout. The need for interoperability and clinical information sharing is more urgent than ever.
That’s why the Surescripts Network Alliance is making interoperability an everyday reality. Together, we inform treatment and transitions of care by giving clinicians and care managers more patient insights and better communication channels.
2.97billion
medication histories delivered in 20231
1.89 billion
clinical document sources exchanged in 20231
881,000
individuals/organizations exchanging HIPAA-compliant health info within electronic workflows1
Key products for everyday interoperability
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Clinical Direct Messaging
Let pharmacists, prescribers and other healthcare professionals seamlessly and reliably send and receive information across multiple care collaboration scenarios within existing workflows.
Clinical Direct Messaging was used to quickly and securely transmit 23.4 million electronic case reports to public health agencies nationwide in 2022.1
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Medication History for Ambulatory
Simplify the medication review process for ambulatory care providers to inform e-prescribing, assess adherence and reduce the likelihood of adverse drug events.
100% of health systems that adopted this solution would choose to purchase it again, and 90% saw positive outcomes immediately.2
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Medication History for Populations
Easily identify patients within value-based care populations who may benefit from outreach and monitor their activity to help keep them healthy over time.
Surescripts delivered 37.6 million medication histories for populations in 2022.1
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Medication History for Reconciliation
Access aggregated medication history data from across care locations, allowing hospital-based clinicians to reconcile medications more accurately, with less risk of manual error.
Surescripts Medication History for Reconciliation enriches the average patient-reported history by 28%, adding 1.1 drugs per patient that would have otherwise been missed.3
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Record Locator & Exchange
Access nationwide patient visit and clinical document location data from across systems, leveraging the Surescripts network and the Carequality interoperability framework.
In a single year, a health system in Connecticut identified more than 6.8 million records of care their patients received outside the state.4
The Surescripts Platform
Powering the future of healthcare
Health intelligence sharing at scale requires powerful infrastructure. The Surescripts Platform supports every Surescripts product and every Network Alliance participant with industry-leading reliability, security and scalability.
Success Stories
Real-world results
“Walgreens is committed to enabling a connected patient experience... We utilize Surescripts clinical messaging and HISP services that are seamlessly integrated into this infrastructure.”
Venk Reddy
Senior Director, Connected Health, Walgreens
“Record Locator & Exchange is turbocharging the information we receive about patients as we’re seeing them. It just makes it really easy to do the right thing.”
Dr. Nitu Kashyap
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Yale New Haven Health
“As one of the original electronic case reporting (eCR) pilots, we were able to go live in about three days and hope to advance eCR as a nationwide approach to case reporting.”
Steven Lane, M.D., M.P.H.
Former Clinical Informatics Director, Privacy, Information Security & Interoperability, Sutter Health
Tap into TEFCA with Interconnect
A new era of clinical information exchange is coming. As a QHINTM candidate, Surescripts Health Information Network is preparing to help you make the most of it with Interconnect.
Insights
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Footnotes:
- Surescripts, “2023 National Progress Report,” March 2024.
- KLAS, “Surescripts Medication History for Health Systems 2022,” October 21, 2022.
- Kin Wah Fung et al., “Comparison of Electronic Pharmacy Prescription Records With Manually Collected Medication Histories in an Emergency Department,” Annals of Emergency Medicine 62, no. 3 (September 2013): p. 205-211.
- Surescripts, “2018 Impact Report: Clinical Interoperability,” April 2019.
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