Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workload on physicians. Surescripts recently released the results of a survey which showed a growing need and support for pharmacists to provide more care services to patients.

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JULY 27, 2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Surescripts have reached a settlement over the regulator’s claims that the health tech company was excluding competitors from certain e-prescribing markets an | The regulator highlighted new restrictions that would be imposed on the health tech company's e-prescribing business.

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Surescripts, a health care IT giant, is reportedly seeking a buyer. It has enlisted the help of TripleTree to explore a potential sale, possibly to a PE firm, due to Surescripts’ ownership structure (which includes CVS Health, Cigna-owned PBM Express Scripts and two pharmacist trade groups).

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 3, 2023

Read more… Unpacking Surescripts’ Commitment to Interoperability. The company is committed to TEFCA and intends to become a QHIN, Justin McMartin at Surescripts told Colin. Personalized care company Validic acquired Trapollo , a remote care logistics company.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 12, 2023

Read more… Surescripts, FTC Settle Over Charges of Anticompetitive Behavio r. Anne Zieger unpacked the FTC settlement of charges that Surescripts was operating at a near-monopoly in two markets. This helped the company find ways to help providers prevent denials in the first place instead of having to reconcile them later.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

I expect we’ll see many more health IT companies become QHINs. We already know of Surescripts intent to become a QHIN and eClinicalWorks just announced their intent to become a QHIN as well. If they’re still not QHINs a year from now, then maybe there’s something to write home about.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 10, 2022

For more than 15 years, the country has been served by only one e-prescribing network, Surescripts (which this week appointed Frank Harvey as its new chief executive following the retirement of CEO Tom Skelton.). How does FDB see itself competing with the nation's only other e-prescribing network, Surescripts?

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 11, 2024

Among them is one company that's been coming to the global conference about as long as any other in the exhibit hall: athenahealth. " Among other priorities in Orlando, the company (which was a founding member of the CommonWell Health Alliance 11 years ago at HIMSS23 ) will also be laser focused on health data exchange this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

A survey of Surescripts users found an 8% increase in the use of electronic prescriptions for specialty medications in the first five months of 2022 compared to 2021. Surescripts also reported a 24% increase in the number of prescribers enrolled in May 2022 compared to May 2021. Partnerships.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Product and Company News LexisNexis Risk Solutions launched LexisNexis Health Equity and Inclusion Insights to deliver SDoH data. Surescripts has applied to become a QHIN through its subsidiary Surescripts Health Information Network. GE HealthCare and BAMF Health are collaborating to expand U.S.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 22, 2019

Surescripts is seeking to cut off PillPack's access to patient data, and the latter, an Amazon-owned company, isn't taking the matter lightly.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Lilly Partners with Amazon Pharmacy to Deliver GLP-1 Medications Directly to Patients Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) and Amazon Pharmacy announced a strategic collaboration to improve patient access to GLP-1 medications for diabetes, obesity, and migraines. Transpara is FDA-approved and widely used by leading medical centers worldwide.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2023

At the event, we’ll be giving out awards to the best healthcare marketing campaigns, people, agencies, and companies. Surescripts will be sharing a new report that looks at opportunities to expand access to care across America. Watch the #HITMC hashtag on Twitter for the results.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 18, 2023

Surescripts released research noting that half of U.S. In addition, Surescripts announced its intention to apply to be a QHIN. Real-world evidence company Atropos Health has joined the AWS Partner Network , and its services are available on AWS Marketplace. SaaS vendor integrate.ai

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Research from payment and analytics company Clarify Health found that mental health utilization for pediatrics has increased significantly since 2016. Specialty prescribers deemed delays and denials as the most challenging part of their job, according to a recent Surescripts survey.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2023

Read more… and check out our special edition of Bonus Features from HIMSS 2023 , with news from Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, Surescripts, and many others. Read more… Funding and M&A Activity: Medication engagement company Scene Health secured $17.7 The new company will retain the name XRHealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

More than 70% of pharmacists and prescribers say they spend too much time on administrative tasks , according to survey data from Surescripts. Product and Company News AssureCare introduced OptimAIzer , which is designed to enhance operational efficiencies in population health management.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Patient engagement platform Luma Health has partnered with Salucro , a payment technology company, to enable mobile patient payment options. Medtronic has partnered with BioIntelliSense , a remote monitoring technology provider, for exclusive U.S. distribution of the BioButton medical grade wearable.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2023

Some companies offer discount coupons. Some of the companies whose managers I talked to pull together all the options, the way a travel site pulls together all the options for air travel or hotels. Information gaps open the market to manipulative direct-to-consumer advertising by pharmaceutical companies.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2023

Digital therapeutic company Medisafe surveyed patients, providers, and digital health leaders about the state of digital solutions for patient care. Partnerships Home care technology platform HHAeXchange added six companies to its Partner Connect Program : ADP, Caribou Rewards, Perry, Vitable Health, Remote Focus, and IMA Group.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 9, 2022

Across industries, companies and consumers have come to rely on the rapid exchange of digital information. Clinical research: For pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials, digital documentation can help streamline approvals and ensure the accurate capture of information. We live in an increasingly digital world.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2023

In general, the solutions offered by IT companies use some combination of reminders, remote patient monitoring, and opportunities to connect with clinicians or caregivers online. Babylon, for instance, works with Surescripts to learn when patients pick up their medications. This shows how hard adherence can be.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 12, 2023

This pressure will drive companies to rethink current recruitment strategies to focus on the health and longevity of their team, and consequentially, the patients they serve. Massive changes at some of the most well-known insurance companies will shift to a service-providing model. Expect additional consolidation in the payor space.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

She recalls the company being on the phone constantly with pharmacists who worried that the electronic prescriptions didn’t fulfill DEA requirements and that the pharmacists could be the ones prosecuted for violations. The health care field did not adopt it easily or smoothly.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Robotics company Vicarious Surgical signed a strategic development agreement with Intermountain Health. Products Patient engagement company Belong.Life launched Tara , a conversational AI cancer clinical trial matching platform. People Interoperability company Rhapsody named Sagnik Bhattacharya as Chief Executive Officer.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

And for good measure, we were also able to talk to CommonWell Health Alliance and Surescripts who are both working through the QHIN application process and should both be QHINs shortly. Check out the video below to see these organizations reaction to becoming a QHIN and the announcement of the officially designated QHINs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Read more… Funding and M&A Activity: Surescripts acquired ActiveRADAR , a clinical intelligence company that identifies therapeutic alternatives for prescriptions. Abridge raised $30 million in Series B funding ; the company focuses on generative AI for clinical documentation.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 9, 2023

the Health Cloud company, announced that Franciscan Health , a 12-hospital system with facilities in Indiana and Illinois, is deploying Innovaccer® Health Cloud to enhance risk-based contract performance and to launch a next-generation experience platform to deliver sophisticated customer and patient relationship management strategies.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Colin Hung spoke to Frank Harvey at Surescripts about how pharmacists can complement primary care for everything from medication refills to vaccinations – and how this enables a more collaborative approach to care. and taken public in 1982 under the ticker symbol QSII – a privately held company.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2023

According to the latest National Progress Report from Surescripts , over 2.5 We sat down with Frank Harvey, CEO of Surescripts to discuss the findings in their 2022 National Progress Report and learn more about the company’s plans in the months ahead. billion medication histories were requested through their platform in 2022.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2022

The first article in this three-part series criticized the conditions of COVID-19 treatment in the United States. Now let’s look toward the future: what we do ideally if we had an epidemic and a treatment we wanted to administer quickly to patients? The ideas in this article combine observations of mine over several years with […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2021

After hearing about DirectTrust passing the 2 billion message mark, we thought it would be valuable for readers to learn more about DirectTrust and the healthcare interoperability work their non-profit is doing. Plus, they have their DirectTrust Summit coming up on June 9-10, 2021 which might be of interest to many of our readers as […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

He espoused a new approach that would respect the standards but would also allow companies like DrFirst and their partners like athenahealth to be able to continue to innovate beyond the standards. This would allow them to better meet the needs of prescribers and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 4, 2022

For the 85th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, we’re talking about the recent ViVE 2022 and HIMSS 2022 conferences. Attending both big events back to back was quite the experience and gave us a unique view into what’s being talked about in health IT.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 8, 2022

The 2022 edition of the annual HIMSS conference will be unlike anything we have experienced before. Although there will be sense of optimism with a return to in-person healthcare conferences, it will be tempered by the specters of COVID (waning), staffing challenges (present), and the uncertainty of geo-politics (looming).

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2022

Samsung Electronics America today announced the launch of its new 4K QLED Smart Healthcare TVs (HT-Q60A Series) and its partnership with healthtech company, ShareSafe today at HIMSS. Evidation , the company enabling anyone to participate in ground-breaking health programs, launches a new program in collaboration with the VA.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

According to a survey by Proofpoint, the average healthcare organization received about 200,000 emails from over 10,000 different 3rd party domains. When you consider the thousands of vendors and suppliers that work with a healthcare organization, this isn’t a big surprise.

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