2024 Surescripts White Coat Award Recognizes 10 Healthcare Technology Leaders in Performance, Innovation and Accuracy

ARLINGTON, Va. – October 1, 2024 – Surescripts®, the nation's leading health information network, awarded the 2024 Surescripts White Coat Award^TM to 10 healthcare industry leaders, recognizing their commitment to performance, innovation and accuracy.

The 2024 Surescripts White Coat Award winners achieved excellence across three categories, including Highest Performance, Innovation and RxChange Champion. This year’s winners include the following leaders from across healthcare:

1. athenahealth
2. Cleveland Clinic
3. CVS Pharmacy
4. DAW Systems, Inc. (ScriptSure)
5. Epic
6. Greenway Health^TM
7. Hamilton Health Care System
8. Lexington Medical Center
9. SRS Pharmacy Systems
10. Walmart

“We are thrilled to recognize the 2024 White Coat Award recipients for continually raising the bar for accuracy, adopting best practices and technology enhancements that ensure clinicians are equipped to provide quality, safe and effective care that their patients deserve,” said Frank Harvey, Chief Executive Officer for Surescripts. “For more than two decades, the Surescripts Network Alliance has continued to prioritize accuracy and patient safety for the billions of e-prescriptions processed each year. This commitment means prescribers and pharmacists are spending less time clarifying the prescriber’s intent and more time focused on what matters most – the patients in their care.”

The 2024 Surescripts White Coat Award recognizes health systems, pharmacies, pharmacy technology vendors and electronic health records (EHR) vendors that help deliver clear and accurate electronic prescriptions, eliminate confusion and time-consuming phone calls and faxes, and give patients better access to the medications they need. Winners are recognized for excellence in three categories:

• Highest Performance: best overall performance score across e-prescriptions
• RxChange Champion: successfully advancing the RxChange transaction, which lets pharmacies communicate with prescribers to resolve prescription concerns within their electronic workflow.
• Innovation: driving performance optimization across the healthcare continuum, ensuring prescribers and pharmacists can provide quality care to patients in a timely manner.

In 2023, Surescripts processed 2.5 billion e-prescriptions, 204.1 million CancelRx Requests and 34.6 million RxChange Requests.

Surescripts continues to improve electronic prescribing with innovations like Sig IQ technology that translates free-text patient directions into a quality-controlled, clinically validated format in order to protect prescriber intent and patient safety. This capability was originally developed to enhance medication histories, Sig IQ expanded to add a Structured & Codified Sig to 1.4 million RxRenewal Requests sent by pharmacies in Q4 2023, allowing prescribers to approve these requests in fewer keystrokes.