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Surescripts
Overview
Leading the industry in innovation
Surescripts was born to solve the kind of healthcare challenges no one can tackle alone. We started by bringing together pharmacies, payers and prescribers to make e-prescribing a reality. That means intense cross-industry collaboration, network-building and innovation are in our DNA. In the decades since then, we’ve used these strengths to pioneer many other ways to improve care with simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing. As healthcare keeps evolving, we’ll keep working to channel our collective expertise and ingenuity into real impact for patients and all those who care for them.
Timeline
We’ve done some big things together
2001
SureScript Systems enables e-prescribing and RxHub forms to connect payers and prescribers
2002
1 millionth Eligibility transaction
2003
First Medication History transaction
2005
Surescripts joins industrywide effort to coordinate care after Hurricane Katrina
2007
Electronic prescribing became legal in all 50 states
2008
SureScript Systems and RxHub merge to form Surescripts
2008
Congress passes MIPPA, incentivizing physicians to e-prescribe
2008
DEA proposes rule to allow the electronic prescribing of controlled substances.
2009
More than 100,000 prescribers use Surescripts
2010
326 million e-prescriptions processed
2011
Electronic Prior Authorization pilot launches
2011
First controlled substance e-prescription processed
2011
First Surescripts White Coat Award presented
2012
788 million e-prescriptions processed
2013
NCPDP creates a standard for electronic prior authorization
2014
Surescripts joins Carequality as a founding member
2014
6.5 billion transactions processed
2014
First demonstration of Record Locator & Exchange
2015
E-prescribing of controlled substances becomes legal in all 50 states
2016
Medication History for Populations launches
2016
Record Locator & Exchange activated nationwide
2017
Surescripts Sentinel® developed to measure and track e-prescription accuracy
2017
Real-Time Prescription Benefit introduced
2018
Surescripts certified by HITRUST
2019
250,000 prescribers use Real-Time Prescription Benefit
2019
NCPDP SCRIPT standard v2017071 adopted
2020
First Specialty Medications solution introduced
2020
First patent received
2021
Modern Healthcare names Surescripts a Best Place to Work for the first time
2023
Surescripts announces intent to apply to be a QHIN under TEFCA
2024
23.8 billion network transactions processed