Surescripts Makes Interoperability Official

Surecripts is a company that is synonymous with e-prescribing. Increasingly, healthcare organizations are using the company’s platform to exchange more than prescription information. Vaccination status, demographic information and notes are increasingly shared. Surescripts recently announced its intention to become a QHIN, firmly positioning the company a player in the interoperability space. Why would they do this? Healthcare IT Today sat down with Justin McMartin, Product Manager at Surescripts to get an answer to that question…and to learn more about the company’s interoperability efforts, their QHIN plans, and the different kinds of data requests they are seeing on their platform. Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report, 1.23 million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34 billion e-prescriptions. That same report also showed the company delivered: 55 billion medication histories 25 billion clinical documents …via its platform. “We really are an interoperability company,” said McMartin. “We send and receive 20 to 30 million transactions each month through our record locator and exchange product. Exchanging health information is everything we do.” Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We are excited about the role we played during the pandemic,” explained McMartin. “As COVID-19 vaccines were admini...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability 2022 National Progress Report e-prescribing EHR Healthcare Information Exchange HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Justin McMartin Medication History QHIN SureScripts Tara Dragert TEFCA Source Type: blogs