Heard at HLTH 2024 Part 2: Insights from Innovative Healthcare Executives
Hear executives from Quantum Health, Surescripts, EY, Clinical Architecture and Personify Health share their views on digital transformation in healthcare.
Elation Health’s New Integration Brings Drug Pricing Transparency to the Point of Care for PCPs
Elation Health integrated Surescripts’ real-time prescription benefit tool — which gives clinicians immediate access to patient-specific medication coverage and cost data — into its EHR. The partnership aims to improve patients' medication adherence by helping primary care physicians have more meaningful conversations with their patients about prescription affordability during visits.
A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Success
A new report from Relatient, A Data-Driven Guide to Patient Access Succes, highlights how focusing on data accuracy and relevance can enhance the performance of healthcare practices.
How Tech is Saving Time for Specialty Pharmacies and Improving the Patient Experience
In an interview, Surescripts’ Clinical Product Advisor Cecelia Byers shared how the company is working to simplify prescribing and obtaining specialty medications.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Pharmacists Could Play a Big Role in Addressing the PCP Shortage
Integrating pharmacists into primary care teams could be a key way to address the primary care physician shortage, according to a new report. The pandemic made it clear that pharmacists are clinically trained and want to provide care beyond filling prescriptions, the report said.
Is Interoperability Tech Worth the Investment? Experts Say Yes for 3 Reasons
Panelists at a recent healthcare conference expressed optimism about the automation technology that health plans, pharmacy benefit managers and providers can adopt to facilitate real-time data sharing. They said that such technology has potential to improve medication adherence, reduce costs and save time for both providers and payers.
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How to Improve Employee Benefits While Reducing Insurance Costs
Balancing healthcare benefits and insurance costs requires research. From becoming a Difference Card member to offering wellness resources, there are many ways to improve healthcare at low cost.
Are We in a Recession? Executives at HLTH Weigh In
MedCity News interviewed CEOs of public companies, entrepreneurs, VCs and payers at the HLTH conference that concluded last week. They had a range of answers to the question. But one common theme emerged: Currently, everyone has a vise-like grip on expenditure.
Surescripts webinar highlights: Interoperability progress depends on how you look at it
Register to view a webinar, sponsored by Surescripts, highlighting progress made on interoperability and what's needed to improve and expand it.
Exploring the next chapter of interoperability
A webinar, sponsored by Surescripts on April 28, will include: Surescripts CEO Tom Skelton, Epic CEO Judy Faulkner, Healthcare Leadership Council President Mary Grealy, and UC San Francisco Assistant Professor of Medicine A. Jay Holmgren. Register today!
‘It’s not really price transparency’: Pharmacies push back on Surescripts, GoodRx deal
Several pharmacies signed a letter asking Surescripts’ board to rescind its deal with GoodRx. They said the deal would not reveal the true cost of medications, and might steer patients away from independent pharmacies.
Tackling Messy Provider Data with an NPI-Forward Approach
Mike Wirth of ProviderTrust shares insights about the company in this interview at the ViVE 2025 conference in Nashville last month.
GoodRx strikes deal with medication data giant Surescripts
The agreement would provide prescribing healthcare providers with information in their EMR about GoodRx's cash discount pricing for patients who are uninsured or where insurance pricing isn't available.
Report: Price transparency tool sees quick uptake
More doctors are using a drug cost tool created by SureScripts than ever before underscoring that price transparency tools that show drugs requiring prior authorization can lead clinicians to switch the drugs they prescribe.
Surescripts fires back at Amazon by kicking vendor ReMy Health off its network
Surescripts says that instead of using its own National Provider Identification (NPI) number, Pillpack fraudulently used NPIs that was associated with random healthcare providers.
Amazon may file suit against Surescripts for access to patient data
CNBC cited unnamed sources who state that PillPack will be blocked from accessing data about a patient's list of medications and prescription history, which it uses to accurately and safely send out medications to customers.
Cerner incorporates Surescripts medication cost transparency tool into its EHR
Beginning next month, Cerner customers will start implementing Surescripts' Real-Time Prescription Benefit tool into their Millennium EHRs. The Kansas City vendor's collaboration with Surescripts was initially announced last November.