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- Post-Public Health Emergency Changes to Patient Care
- 5 Signs of Hope for American Healthcare
- Is Community Pharmacy of George Washington's Day Making a Comeback?
- Pioneering Pharmacists Lift Healthcare to New Heights
- Moving Interoperability Mountains to Improve Patient Care
- 9 Leaders’ Perspectives on a New Era in American Healthcare
- Sunshine Ahead with Medication History and Sig IQ
- Our Top 10 Stories of ’22 Show that Change in Healthcare is the Only Constant
- 2023 Predictions: The Right Information Can Lead to Improved Patient Care
- The Verdict is Unanimous: Health Systems Value Reliable Medication History
- HLTH Highlights Need for Greater Efficiency and Simplicity
- Health IT Guru Lee Barrett on Being Knocked Out Cold in the ER
- All Roads Lead Back to Community Pharmacy for Pharmacist and Recent NCPA President Michele Belcher
- Earthquakes & Pandemics: Advancing Interoperability When the World Falls Apart
- Where Healthcare Technology & National Policy Meet, You'll Find Tina Grande
- We’ve Built the Foundation for Useful Information Sharing
- The Giant Sequoia as a Metaphor for Advancing Interoperability
- 100% of Surveyed EHR Vendors Would Buy Our Solutions—Again—to Enable Interoperability
- The Nightmare & Silver Lining: Walgreens' Tasha Polster on the Impact of COVID-19
- The Art of a Data Detective
- Interoperability: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?
- On the Hunt for Network Anomalies
- Our KLAS Report Card: Interoperability at Scale
- Pharmacies Answer the Call—Again
- Toward Nationwide Interoperability: A 2-Minute TEFCA Explainer
- Are We There Yet? Measuring Industry-Wide Interoperability
- 5 Ways Health Intelligence Sharing Evolved in 2021
- Elevating Women’s Health & Leadership in Honor of International Women’s Day
- Taking the Trouble Out of Tummy Troubles
- New Medication History Enhancements Complete the Patient Picture
- 2022 Predictions: Simpler, Trusted Health Intelligence Sharing
- Six Regulatory and Policy Issues to Watch in 2022
- Always Striving to Be Better Than We Were
- Helping Care Managers Bring Members and Providers Closer Together
- Getting the Facts About Medication Reconciliation
- Will Teamwork Deliver on the Promise of Value-Based Care?
- At Mount Sinai, Managing 10,000 Patients Is Personal
- Thank You, Pharmacists
- How Has COVID-19 Permanently Changed Healthcare?
- The Rise of Pharmacy to the Front Lines of Care and Innovation
- Improve Patient Care and Check the CMS “Box” with Tailored Clinical Intelligence
- Embracing Technology to Future-Proof Healthcare for the Next Pandemic
- Clinical Intelligence: The Next Journey Stop To Improve Healthcare For All
- Making a Seamless Move from the Emergency Room to the Primary Care Provider
- Innovation in Interoperability Isn't Slowing Down
- Helping the Nation Weather the Storm
- Bringing Patient Insights into Focus
- Preparing Providers for “COVID Fallout”
- Healthcare’s Collective Innovation During COVID-19 Saved Patients Money on Medications
- Moving Value-Based Care Forward
- Navigating Disruption with Collaboration and Innovation
- Closing the Gaps in Healthcare Disparities
- The Power of a Panoramic View of Patient Medication History
- How COVID-19 is Intensifying Healthcare Disruption, Acceleration and Innovation
- Minimizing the Barriers Between Pharmacists and Patients
- The Intersection of Passion and Purpose
- Three Ways Health Plans Can Bring Patient Insights Into Focus
- Clearing the COVID-19 Vaccination Path for Pharmacists
- A More Inclusive Approach to Healthcare and the Whole-Patient View
- #Dedicated to Securing the Actionable Intelligence Frontline Workers Need
- The State of the Health IT Regulatory Environment
- Empowering Patients with Another Relationship They Can Count On
- Disruption, Acceleration and Innovation: Health IT Predictions for 2021
- Lessons Learned About Information Sharing During a Pandemic
- Five Questions: Adnan Qadir on Adaptation, Inspiration and the Fully Empowered Patient of the Future
- Three Ways Healthcare Technology is Accelerating
- Together, a Doctor and an Artist Envision a Faxless Future
- Working Behind the Scenes to Keep the Focus on the Patient
- The [Interoperable] Future is FHIR
- It’s Not Just Putting Pills in a Bottle: The Pharmacist as Care Provider
- Connectivity Is Just the Start
- From Broken to Beautiful
- How Aledade Improved its Star Ratings with Enhanced Medication History
- Surescripts Security Expert Recognized as Leader in Healthcare Data Space
- #Dedicated to Our Customers in Good Times and Bad
- Jeff Sponaugle Talks Cars in Space, Solving with Purpose and Saving Patients Lives
- Why Getting a Flu Shot Matters Even More This Year
- Tapping Into Technology and Data to Respond to COVID-19
- A Faxless Future: Dare We Dream?
- The Toothpaste Is Not Going Back Into the Tube: Telehealth Is Here to Stay
- 5 Questions: Tiffany Rosenquist on Bringing the Head and the Heart Together for a Better Customer Experience
- Four Ways Health IT is Rising to the Challenge with Collective Innovation
- Black Book Research Names Surescripts the Industry Leader in Interoperability
- The Source for Patient Data Prescribers Can’t Go Without
- Innovation & Interoperability in the Time of COVID-19
- Offering Expertise, Appreciation and Commitment to Those on the Virtual Front Lines
- How to Prepare for the Perfect Storm: Hurricane Season and COVID-19
- Opening Our Eyes to New Possibilities
- Helping Frontline Healthcare Workers with Technical Prowess and Empathy
- Interoperability Creates Healthcare for (All) the Ages
- Bringing Interoperability into Focus
- The Timely Importance of a Trusted, Capable and Secure Health Information Network
- A New Rule for a New Era in Healthcare
- What Does it Mean to be the Nation’s Most Trusted & Capable Health Information Network?
- Be the Change You Want to See in the (Healthcare) World
- The Link Between Trust, Interoperability and Better Patient Outcomes
- In Healthcare, Trust is a Must
- 2020 Predictions: The Health IT Year Ahead
- 2018 Progress Report Myths v. Reality: How Healthcare Providers are Using Powerful Solutions to Deliver Better Care Nationwide
- Leveraging Data to Combat the Opioid Epidemic and Keep Patients Safe
- “When It Goes Well, It Feels Like Magic” Two HIT Experts Chat about the Real-World Impact of Interoperability
- It’s A Jungle Out There: A Conversation with Maggie “Health Ranger” Shalagan
- Balancing Innovation and Interoperability with Data Privacy and Security
- Here's What It Takes to Build the Nation's Most Trusted & Capable Health Information Network
- With an Eye on Interoperability, Surescripts Provides Feedback on TEFCA 2.0
- The Secret is Out: Comprehensive Clinical History Improves Your Ability to Care for Every Patient, at Every Stage
- Surescripts Supports the Federal Government in its Effort to Improve Healthcare by Breaking Down Barriers to Information and Technology
- Why It Matters: Prescribers Can Now Access Accurate Medication History Data for Virtually Every American
- Hurricane Season is Upon Us. Healthcare Tech Can Help Deliver Critical Care to Patients in Dire Need.
- Nationwide Interoperability at the Point of Care: True or False?
- Driving Nationwide Interoperability, Curbing the Opioid Crisis and Addressing Prescription Costs
- Patients Are Carting Paper Records in Three-Ring Binders to the Doctor. We’re Changing That.
- Tara Dragert Talks Perspective, Feminism and Why We’re Never Going to be ‘Done’ with Healthcare Interoperability
- Network Data Reveals How Health IT Recovers After the Storm
- Federal Government Issues New Rules to Improve Healthcare Information Exchange
- Consumerism Will Spark Change Across the Industry: My Top Seven Health IT Predictions for 2019
- Mike Pritts Talks about Fostering Talent, Collaboration and Creativity
- Groundbreaking Technology Brings Interoperability to Life—and is Gaining Momentum Nationwide
- Surescripts Joins Leading Health Plans, Care Providers and Vendors to Accelerate Healthcare Interoperability with the Da Vinci Project
- Interoperability is Rapidly Advancing Across Healthcare
- Physicians Point Out Needed Improvements to Interoperability and Patient Data Access Including Clinical History
- High Quality Medication Adherence Information is Important but Elusive
- Surescripts Responds to ONC’s TEFCA Draft
- Surescripts Responds to ONC’s Release of the Draft Trusted Exchange Framework
- Seeing Our Healthcare Investments Pay Off in 2018 and Beyond
- 21st Century Cures Act: One Year Later
- Rising to the Challenge of Turning Data into Actionable Patient Intelligence
- Better Actionable Intelligence Means Better Healthcare for All
- Carequality: Improving patient care coordination by advancing interoperability
- NACDS Total Store Expo: Pharmacies are increasingly playing a critical role in driving interoperability in healthcare
- Building on Direct: Improving interoperability and patient data exchange
- St. Louis-based Health System Embraces Technology to Strengthen Care Coordination
- Healthcare is No Longer Local: Explore the Cost of Disparate Health Data
- 21st Century Cures Act: What Providers and Electronic Health Record Vendors Need to Know
- Why Isn’t the Healthcare Consumer Experience as Easy as Online Banking?
- Interoperability in Action: ONC Visits St. Louis
- Live Video Chat: Digital Health Experts on the State of Health IT and the Business of Interoperability
- Driving the Digital Shift in Healthcare
- Monumental Network Growth Means Good Things for Healthcare
- When Investing in Interoperability, Health Systems Need Connectivity ROI
- Combating Medical Errors with Interoperability
- Will Collaboration Bring Healthcare Interoperability to Life? HIMSS’16 Panelists Weigh-In
- Surescripts Continues to Advance and Support Health Care Interoperability
- HIMSS16: What is the Ideal State of Interoperability?
- Locate Patient Records, Improve Quality: First Adopters Discuss the National Record Locator Service at HIMSS16
- Building on Existing Collaboration for True Interoperability
- On the Road to Interoperability, Industry Collaboration Drivers Wanted
- ONC’s Interoperability Roadmap: Keeping the Focus Where It Counts
- FHIR: A SMART Solution for Interoperability?
- Achieving Interoperability in Rural Communities
- Challenges and Opportunities of Interoperability
Medication affordability
- To Relieve Suffering: Kroger Health President Colleen Lindholz Recites the Pharmacist’s Oath
- 3 Studies Put Real-Time Prescription Benefit Under the Microscope of Peer Review
- What the Click of a Button Can Mean for Patient Access to Medication
- Our Peer-Reviewed Study Shows that Using Electronic Prior Authorization Saves Time—and Frustration
- An Antidote to Clinician Burnout: Fusing Old-fashioned Medicine with High Technology
- Soothing the Economic Sting with the Inflation Reduction Act—and Health Technology
- Report: Prescriptions Informed by Technology See Higher Pickup Rates at the Pharmacy
- A Playbook for Success in Medication Affordability & Adherence
- Over Half of U.S. Prescribers Use Health IT for Medication Affordability & Adherence
- Affordable Medication and Adherence: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- Behind the Scenes of An Ideal Prescribing Experience
- A Healthcare Expert’s Insights on How We Can Get Clinical Decision Support Right
- Momentum in Prescription Affordability & Adherence Arrives at a Much-Needed Moment
- From Powerless to Empowered: Solving the Drug Cost Conundrum for Patients, Prescribers and Pharmacists
- Strengthening Our Foundation with Eligibility, Formulary and Benefit Data
- Innovation in Prescription Pricing Technology
- Informed and Unburdened: A Future System that Centers Patients on a Budget
- Eligibility and Formulary Data Paves the Way to Better Care
- How EHRs Can Help Prescribers Talk Dollars and Sense with Patients
- Could the Right Technology Make it Faster & Easier to Remove Cost & Coverage Barriers for Patients?
- A Demonstration of Value: AHIP Report Shows Electronic Prior Authorization’s Real-World Impact
- A Health IT Expert on Navigating the System to Find the Best Drug Cost
- Medication Adherence Takes an Information-Sharing Village
- New Prior Authorization Rule Puts Patients Over Paperwork
- New Requirements Drive Greater Price Transparency in the New Year
- How Patient Benefit Data Can Help Create an Optimal Prescription
- Our Top Ten Articles of 2020: Looking Back at What Mattered Most
- Price Transparency Tool Gives Gift of Time, Savings to Pharmacists and Patients
- Big Savings in the Big City
- Pharmacist Jennifer Chung Shares Her Own Experience of Sticker Shock at the Pharmacy Counter
- Maintaining the Integrity of Clinical Decision Support Tools
- Turning Personal Experience into Better Patient Outcomes
- Three Ways Health Plans Can Address Inefficiencies and Medication Adherence
- Prior Authorization: On the Path to Quality, Affordability and Safety
- CMS Price Transparency Rule is Fast Approaching
- Podcast Breaks Down How Surescripts Is Improving the Prescribing Process for Patients, Prescribers and Pharmacists
- Escaping the Administrative Swirl Just in Time
- Pharmacists Can Now Sing a New Tune When Patients Ask About Cost
- A Future Where Price Transparency is the Norm
- Right Around the Corner: 2021 CMS Rule Requiring Real Time Benefit Tools
- The Exam Room Is a Sacred Space: How One Doctor Broaches Prescription Costs
- 5 Questions: Michelle Trombetta on Improving the Patient Experience and the Power of Vulnerability
- Prescription Price Transparency: Good for Patients, Good for Health Plans
- Price Transparency: It’s in the Best Interest of Patients and Providers
- Patients Are Ready to Talk Dollars with Their Doctors
- 7 Secrets to a Successful EHR Relationship
- ZIP Code v. Genetic Code: How Health Plans Can Use Technology to Address the Social Determinants of Health
- How One to Two Seconds Can Improve Patient and Physician Lives
- Forces of Change: The Industry Responds to the Call for Prescription Price Transparency
- Record-Breaking FDA Approvals Mean Hope for Patients but Challenges for Healthcare Access, Delivery and Affordability
- When It Comes to Choosing The Right Prescription Price Transparency Model—and Improving Member Care—Seven is the Magic Number for Innovative Health Plans
- Surescripts Is Helping Independent Pharmacists Spend More Time with Patients—And Less Time with Paperwork
- Surescripts Supports CMS in its Effort to Streamline Prior Authorization for Prescribers and Expedite Patient Access to Needed Medications
- How Aurora Health Care Used Electronic Prior Authorization To Cut Clinic Staff Overtime By More Than Half
- Health Plans and PBMs Team Up to Get Patients Needed Medications Easier and Faster
- Federal Government Issues Final Rule: Part D Plans Must Adopt a Real Time Benefit Tool
- Older, Sicker Patients Will Benefit from Real-Time Benefit Tools, So Let’s Not Delay Using Them.
- HIMSS19 Showed Glimpses of a Bright Future, But Also Problem Solving in the Here and Now
- HIMSS19 Highlights: Five Takeaways from Healthcare Leaders on Prescription Price Transparency
- Disrupting the Drug Cost Trajectory: Dr. Michelle Mello on Making Medications Affordable
- Prescribers and Patients are Working Together to Save Time, Money and Hassle
- Federal Government Takes Action to Spur Greater Use of Prescription Price Transparency Tools at the Point of Care
- How Prescribers are Saving Their Patients Thousands of Dollars on Drugs
- Reinventing the Health IT Adoption Curve: Price Transparency at the Point of Care
- Actionable Intelligence at the Point of Care can Help Prevent Physician Burnout
- Surescripts Tackles Prescription Abandonment with Point-of-Care Information That Supports Patient-Provider Shared Decision Making
- Five Questions: Mary Ann Chaffee on Price Transparency, Public Health and the Notorious R.B.G.
- Patients, Pocketbooks and a Podcast on Prescription Price Transparency
- Patients’ Out-of-Pocket Cost Should Weigh Into Prescribing Decisions
- HIMSS18 Panel Gets Candid About Prescription Price Transparency
Opioids
Speciality medications