CLINICAL HISTORY

Surescripts stores basic demographic information, provided by healthcare providers, for purposes of patient matching and identification. Patient demographics include:

• Patient ID / Medical Record Number
• Patient name: First, middle, last, prefix, suffix
• Patient Address line 1 & 2
• Patient city, state, zip
• Patient date of birth
• Patient gender

Record Locator & Exchange provides demographic information to ensure proper identification and matching. A typical clinical document shared between healthcare providers includes: allergies, medications, diagnoses, immunizations, family/medical/surgical/social history, test results, discharge information, vital signs and providers progress notes.

Healthcare providers currently providing treatment or managing ongoing care can request information about previous treatment locations. Record Locator & Exchange will provide that information and assist with retrieving records from those previous visits.

EHR vendors and health systems alike would benefit from the core functions of Record Locator & Exchange.

FHIR is a promising new healthcare technology standard that Surescripts is participating in developing. In fact, one of the future integration models for NRLS will use FHIR-based exchange for organizations that have not used IHE transactions. That said, healthcare data is incredibly vast and complicated and no single standard will be the complete solution. The emergence of new standards and new capabilities upon the foundations we’re building are all positive shifts in healthcare technology.