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Business Wire
06-05-2025
- Health
- Business Wire
Media Advisory: Surescripts to Present on Innovative Interoperability at 2025 Nourishing Change Conference Hosted by Kroger Health, May 13-15
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surescripts ®, the nation's leading health intelligence network, will present on healthcare interoperability as part of a panel of healthcare leaders at the 2025 Nourishing Change Conference hosted by Kroger Health, May 13-15 in Cincinnati, Ohio. 'I can't wait to join industry leaders at the 2025 Nourishing Change Conference to share insights & discuss how we can focus on innovations that make a meaningful difference for patients," said Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer. Share 'I can't wait to join industry leaders as part of a panel at the 2025 Nourishing Change Conference to share insights and discuss how we can continue to focus on innovations that make a meaningful difference for patients and the people who serve them,' said Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer for Surescripts. 'Healthcare is facing serious challenges, from provider burnout to patients not being able to access or afford care. It's a challenge that collaboration and innovation that advances health intelligence sharing can help solve. When clinicians and care providers are better informed, it accelerates decisions, keeping patient care on track," added Marcus. To learn more, check out the panel discussion: What Does Optimal Interoperability Look Like? When: May 14, 2025, 2:00-3:15PM Location: Breakout Sessions--Part One Overview: What would it take for every part of the health system to connect and communicate? This session explores the path to true interoperability—what it looks like in practice, where it's already working, and how we expand its impact across every community. Panelists: Melanie Marcus, Surescripts, Yousuf Ahmad, AssureCare, David Pope, XiFin Pharmacy Solutions and moderator, Elizabeth Koonin, UnitedHealthcare. Background: In 2024, Surescripts supported 27.2 billion exchanges of patient clinical and benefit information, enabling 2.29 million healthcare professionals and organizations with access to clinical and benefit information for virtually every insured American. Health intelligence sharing at scale is helping to increase patient safety, lower costs and improve the quality of care by enabling: 2.6 billion electronic prescriptions to be delivered in 2024, helping patients get needed medications faster and safer. Nearly 900,000 prescribers with technology like Real-Time Prescription Benefit to saving patients an average of $82 per prescription and more than $1,000 per specialty medication. Touchless Prior Authorization, improving efficiency for care providers and reducing the average time to approve a prior authorization from more than one hour to just 34 seconds, helping patients get needed medications faster. For more information about how Surescripts is helping improve healthcare for patients and the people who serve them, check out Surescripts 2024 Annual Impact Report. About Surescripts Our purpose is to serve the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. At Surescripts, we bring healthcare together to inform and accelerate decisions, helping keep patient care on track. With the Surescripts Network Alliance®, we're empowering the healthcare ecosystem with intelligence and interoperability for smarter, faster prescribing, prior authorization, treatment, care management and more. Visit us at and follow us on LinkedIn.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
New Season of Surescripts Award-Winning Podcast, There's a Better Way, to Premiere in May
Season 4 features healthcare leaders' inspiring stories and vision for helping healthcare heal through systemic innovation ARLINGTON, Va., April 30, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surescripts®, the nation's leading health intelligence network, will premiere the fourth season of its award-winning podcast, There's a Better Way: Smart Talk on Healthcare and Technology, on May 20, 2025. Check out the trailer for Season 4 of There's a Better Way. Host Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer for Surescripts, is back this season to ask healthcare technology changemakers from across the nation one fundamental question: How can healthcare use systemic innovation to heal itself and change the way patients heal? "The American healthcare system faces serious challenges, despite being one of the most innovative in the world. Care providers continue to face burnout from paperwork and administrative tasks and as a result, they are leaving practice. At the same time, patients are struggling more than ever before to find accessible and affordable care, forcing them to take drastic measures like cutting pills in half to make them last," said Marcus. "We know there truly is a better way. I'm thrilled to welcome this season's impressive leaders from across healthcare who will share their vision for solving these challenges and the inspiring stories and innovative ideas driving their work to meaningfully improve the American healthcare system." Tune in to any major podcast app starting in May to hear from the latest line-up of guests including Jen McGonigle, Vice President of Optum Rx Enterprise Capabilities, John Schilling, Co-Managing Partner for TPG Capital, and Dr. Eric Boose, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Cleveland Clinic. And catch up on past episodes now featuring inspiring, driven healthcare leaders like Troy Tazbaz, Director of Digital Health Center of Excellence at the Food and Drug Administration, Alexandra Drane, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Archangels, Eric Weidmann, M.D., Former Chief Medical Officer for CompuGroup Medical, and Tricia Lee Rolle, Pharm.D., MS, PhD, Senior Advisor, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, plus many more! About Surescripts Our purpose is to serve the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. At Surescripts, we bring healthcare together to inform and accelerate decisions, helping keep patient care on track. With the Surescripts Network Alliance®, we're empowering the healthcare ecosystem with intelligence and interoperability for smarter, faster prescribing, prior authorization, treatment, care management and more. Visit us at and follow us on LinkedIn. View source version on Contacts Media Contact:Kate Giaquinto(571) Sign in to access your portfolio
Associated Press
25-03-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
RazorMetrics Achieves Surescripts® Clinical Direct Messaging Certification
Enhancing Provider Communication with Seamless Cost-Saving Medication Alerts AUSTIN, Texas, March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- RazorMetrics, a leading innovator in pharmacy cost containment solutions, recently achieved Surescripts ® Clinical Direct Messaging certification for its medication change orders. This certification enhances RazorMetrics' ability to deliver cost-saving medication recommendations directly to prescribers' electronic health records (EHRs), ensuring timely and secure communication. 'With Surescripts certification, we are expanding our communication capabilities to help prescribers access cost-saving recommendations within their existing workflows,' said Tom Dorsett, CEO at RazorMetrics. 'By integrating with the Surescripts network, we're providing another efficient way for providers to make informed medication decisions that support both cost savings and patient care.' Surescripts Clinical Direct Messaging provides a secure, streamlined method for transmitting medication change orders to prescribers' EHRs. This integration allows prescribers to receive actionable medication recommendations without disrupting their workflow. 'Surescripts is simplifying health intelligence sharing, enabling care providers with technologies like Clinical Direct Messaging that allows them to send and receive secure, HIPAA-compliant information as part of their existing workflow, so care providers can more efficiently manage time-sensitive communications and provide better informed, safer and less costly care to their patients,' said Matt Koehler, VP of Product Innovation for Surescripts. 'We look forward to collaborating with RazorMetrics as part of the Surescripts Network Alliance® to empower prescribers with the information they need to make better-informed medication decisions with their patients.' RazorMetrics' certification ensures compliance with Surescripts' security protocols to ensure a seamless exchange of protected health information. With this new capability, RazorMetrics will begin transmitting change orders electronically in March 2025, with plans to scale to over 10,000 messages per month over the next six months. This milestone underscores RazorMetrics' commitment to offering a fully integrated, multi-channel provider communication strategy, ensuring that prescribers receive cost-saving recommendations in the way that best fits their workflow. About RazorMetrics RazorMetrics creates cutting-edge pharmacy cost containment solutions to quickly and easily reduce drug costs. Its proprietary technology automatically initiates cost-saving opportunities through medication switching, deprescription, deduplication, and more–all while adapting to fit client's plan, preferences, and formulary. RazorMetrics conveniently plugs into prescriber's existing workflow, improving healthcare decisions while seamlessly reducing medication costs for members and plan sponsors. Based in Austin, TX, RazorMetrics supports self-funded employers, health plans, PBMs, and organizations to bring clarity, efficiency, and more value to their pharmacy benefits. Learn more at Media Contact 308.627.6897
