Collectively Enabling Safer and More Affordable Prescriptions
Arming Healthcare Professionals with Actionable Patient Intelligence
The Surescripts Network Alliance includes virtually all EHRs, PBMs, pharmacies and clinicians, plus an increasing number of health plans, long-term and post-acute care organizations and specialty pharmacy organizations.
In 2018, the Surescripts Network Alliance™ improved e-prescription accuracy by 14%—representing a 64% improvement since 2016. As a result, physicians and pharmacists spent less time exchanging phone calls and faxes to clarify prescriber intent. And the best part: this increased accuracy ultimately helped patients get the safe, effective care they deserve. That’s why we’re excited to announce the Surescripts White Coat Award, which recognizes the continued efforts our customers are making to improve e-prescription accuracy. It also rewards leaders who have adopted best practices and technology enhancements that boost healthcare delivery. This year, in addition to honoring electronic health record (EHR) vendors, we’ve expanded the White Coat Award to include health systems, pharmacies and pharmacy technology leaders. This expansion better reflects the hard work our Network Alliance partners are doing to improve the accuracy of e-prescriptions.
Highest Accuracy: Best prescription accuracy as of August 1 based on Surescripts Quality Index Score*
Most Improved Accuracy: Greatest change in Quality Index Score* between August 1, 2018 and August 1, 2019.
EHRs, health systems, pharmacies and pharmacy technology vendors that contract directly with Surescripts will be considered for the awards. No submission is required.
For each category, the top two organizations in each tier will be named as finalists. The highest scoring organization in each tier will be selected as a winner.
EHRs
May: 2019 White Coat Award program launches July: Ensure all required data is submitted and recorded on Surescripts Sentinel August 12-23: Surescripts evaluates data available in Surescripts Sentinel® to determine finalists and winners Week of August 26: Finalists notified Week of September 9: Finalists announced** September 24: Winners announced at the Surescripts Network Alliance Forum White Coat Award dinner
Winners of the Surescripts White Coat Award will be recognized in several ways, including:
For additional details about the Surescripts White Coat Award, please see the Frequently Asked Questions. *Surescripts Quality Index Score is a rating system developed by the Surescripts Critical Performance Improvement program which assigns a composite score between 1 and 1,000 to reflect overall e-prescription accuracy relative to 11 accuracy-related pain points. **Finalists must provide Surescripts with permission to use their organization name publicly before they will be announced and considered to win the awards.
*Surescripts Quality Index Score is a rating system developed by the Surescripts Critical Performance Improvement program which assigns a composite score between 1 and 1,000 to reflect overall e-prescription accuracy relative to 11 accuracy-related pain points.
**Finalists must provide Surescripts with permission to use their organization name publicly before they will be announced and considered to win the awards.