Simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing
We convene healthcare organizations nationwide to simplify how health intelligence is shared—improving care for patients and better supporting those who serve them.
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The Surescripts Network Alliance®
Surescripts aligns nearly all electronic health records (EHR) vendors, pharmacy benefit managers, pharmacies and clinicians in the U.S., plus health plans, long-term and post-acute care organizations, specialty hubs and specialty pharmacy organizations. All of these people and organizations working together make up the Surescripts Network Alliance.
Enhance Prescribing
Collectively enabling safer and more affordable prescriptions
View solutionsBenefit Optimization delivers prescription benefit intelligence so clinicians can find medication that’s appropriate and affordable.
Prior Authorization helps fill prescriptions faster by bringing prior authorization question sets and responses into clinical workflows.
Specialty Medications streamlines the unique complexities of specialty prescribing and fulfillment to reduce treatment delays.
E-Prescribing sets the standard for safe, clear prescriptions with technology that fosters high data quality and efficient communication.
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Inform Care Decisions
Arming healthcare professionals with actionable patient intelligence
View solutionsMedication History gives clinicians a cleaner, more complete and intelligently enhanced picture of medications prescribed and dispensed.
Clinical History leverages the Carequality interoperability framework to deliver care history insights to clinicians and care managers.
Clinical Direct Messaging securely delivers clinical communications, facilitating efficient workflows and smoother care coordination.
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Advance Healthcare
Convening, informing and advocating for the healthcare industry
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Intelligence in Action
Find insights on topics including interoperability, specialty medications, and medication
affordability and adherence.
Federal advocacy
Our leaders inform and encourage smart health IT policy at the national level.
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Making an impact on patients together
As the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates change across healthcare, the Surescripts Network Alliance is innovating to tackle our shared challenges and deliver better care.
Increasing patient safety
We’ve improved our network-wide Quality Index Score for electronic prescriptions more than 200% since 2016.1
Lowering costs
Prescribers who use Surescripts to find a less costly alternative save patients an average of $36.68 per prescription.2
Ensuring quality care
In 2021, we helped 197,000 clinicians nationwide quickly see where patients received care and locate medical records.3
Intelligence in Action
Our history, scale and experience give us a big-picture perspective on what’s happening in healthcare. Get early insight into emerging challenges, their potential impact and how to navigate them across markets.
Interoperability
Healthcare professionals need information to flow easily across systems so they can share and access it anytime and anywhere it’s needed for patient care.
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Medication affordability & adherence
Medication only works if patients can access, afford and adhere to it. Visibility into prescription pricing is an important part of the equation.
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Specialty medications
When we simplify specialty prescribing, fulfillment and onboarding, patients can start their medications sooner and those who care for them can spend less time on paperwork.
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Opioids
Our nation is in the midst of an opioid abuse epidemic. Facing a public health crisis, we are taking action through a combination of technology, education and public policy.
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Medication Affordability & Adherence
September 19, 2022
Report: Prescriptions Informed by Technology See Higher Pickup Rates at the Pharmacy
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10/4/2022
More affordable medications mean more adherent patients. Pretty intuitive, right? But just how strong is that relationship? 🧵👇
9/30/2022
#EHR vendors: In the aftermath of #HurricaneIan, pharmacies may be offline and displaced patients may be showing up… https://t.co/4Wx10UuQ6X
9/29/2022
Pharmacies and pharmacy tech vendors: If you go offline due to #HurricaneIan, a few simple steps will help minimize… https://t.co/osOnghXlxJ
9/28/2022
Docs treating those displaced by #HurricaneIan: Don't forget to access patient-specific medication history data thr… https://t.co/TWv7euofZC
9/27/2022
Just days after Sam Lambson stood up a command center for his health system’s COVID-19 response, the ground shook u… https://t.co/3dKdQrGyQZ
9/27/2022
Quick tip for those evacuating from #HurricaneIan: Do you need Rx refills? Ask your doctor to check your medication… https://t.co/JtL1vSAwKA
9/26/2022
The Inflation Reduction Act isn’t just about gas prices. It aims to reform drug pricing & improve medication affo… https://t.co/4P7CqPREt8
9/26/2022
When he was starting high school, @SamLambson’s family moved from Arizona to Hong Kong. It was a big shift that con… https://t.co/3ejmNItEPH
9/22/2022
When it comes to interoperability, you certainly can have too much of a good thing. Duplicate data runs rampant and… https://t.co/E32urgmtvu
9/21/2022
Thanks so much for coming on the pod @SamLambson, what a great conversation! To hear how Sam is working to improve… https://t.co/YWId5RsN9s
- Surescripts' Quality Index Score measures the effective use of 11 key elements of electronic prescriptions, such as Drug Description, Days Supply, and Potency Unit Code. Surescripts, "2021 National Progress Report,” March 2022.
- Surescripts, “2021 National Progress Report.”
- Surescripts, “2021 National Progress Report.”