HealthyCircles Connects to the Surescripts Network to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
Monday, August 8, 2011
HealthyCircles Connects to
the Surescripts Network
to Reduce Hospital Readmissions
HealthyCircles will leverage Surescripts' Medication History
Acute service to provide hospitals and their extended acute care
facilities a solution to address medication reconciliation,
post-discharge care coordination and reducing hospital
readmissions.
SAN DIEGO - August 8, 2011 -
Today, HealthyCircles™(www.healthycircles.com), an integrated suite of
online Professional and Consumer portals, announced it will connect
to the Surescripts network to access Surescripts' Medication
History Acute service. The combination of HealthyCircles' Care
Coordination capabilities and Surescripts' medication history
service will offer hospitals and extended acute-care facilities a
powerful toolset to manage the discharge process, coordinate
transitions of care and reduce 30-day readmission rates.
"Secure, electronic access to medication history can improve care
and save money by reducing the time it takes to gather patient
information and by enabling providers to make more informed
clinical decisions," said Cris Ross, Executive Vice President and
General Manager for Clinical Interoperability at Surescripts. "With
the Surescripts service, a patient's medication history is
available at the time of hospital admission, points of transition
within the facility and upon discharge. This service provides a
more seamless patient experience and facilitates the coordination
of care."
Surescripts' Medication History Acute service allows prescribers
and authorized staff in acute-care settings to query and receive
aggregated details for up to a year's worth of patient medication
history from payer and pharmacy records, representing over 240
million patients. For more information on Surescripts' medication
history services, go to http://surescripts.com/about-us/core-services/prescription-history.aspx.
The HealthyCircles Transition of Care service is designed to
support the needs of acute-care facilities, hospital emergency
departments and critical access hospitals, including those
facilities that are rural or small.
"The Surescripts Medication History Acute service will
significantly streamline and deliver cost efficiencies associated
with the acute-care facilities' discharge processes and care
coordination efforts," stated James Mault, MD, FACS, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of HealthyCircles. "The Surescripts service
available with HealthyCircles will enable hospitals a simple
solution to manage transitions of care and to reduce the clinical
and financial burden for all Care Team members involved in the
patient's care."
The HealthyCircles Connected Health Platform securely connects
patients, family caregivers and health care professionals via a
proprietary record sharing and communication infrastructure. The
ability to create and deliver interactive health programs, along
with exception management tools for care management and care
coordination, allows for the early detection of potential adverse
events and changes in patients' clinical status. HealthyCircles
incorporates familiar social networking technologies to ensure the
patient, professional and caregiver engagement is a simple,
collaborative experience.
About HealthyCircles
HealthyCircles™(www.healthycircles.com), a San Diego-based,
connected health platform company provides enterprise solutions to
Health Plans, Health Care Delivery Systems and the Pharmaceutical
Industry. HealthyCircles is a private-labeled,
software-as-a-service model that delivers an integrated suite of
products and services connecting health care professionals to
patients, their families and their caregivers via a HIPAA secure,
care management system.
About Surescripts
The Surescripts network supports the most comprehensive ecosystem
of healthcare organizations nationwide. Pharmacies, payers,
pharmacy benefit managers, physicians, hospitals, health
information exchanges and health technology firms rely on
Surescripts to more easily and securely share health information.
Guided by the principles of neutrality, transparency, physician and
patient choice, open standards, collaboration and privacy,
Surescripts operates the nation's largest health information
network. By providing information for routine, recurring and
emergency care, Surescripts is committed to saving lives, improving
efficiency and reducing the cost of health care for all. For more
information, go to www.surescripts.com and
follow us at twitter.com/surescripts.
