Dr. Andrew Mellin is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Surescripts. Since joining in 2018, his tenure is marked by advancing strategic healthcare IT innovations and convening industry stakeholders within the Surescripts Network Alliance, focusing on key industry areas such as population health, medication adherence and affordability, specialty medications, and interoperability.
Trained in internal medicine, Dr. Mellin has brought patient-centric and provider-focused perspectives throughout the more than two decades he has spent developing and implementing innovative EHR and analytics solutions for healthcare providers.
Dr. Mellin previously led the provider engagement team at Allina Health in Minneapolis for an EHR implementation that spanned eight hospitals and 60 clinics. He also worked as a hospitalist in St. Paul, Minnesota for 15 years.
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