Surescripts and NextGen Healthcare take important step to improve quality of care collaboration and coordination across the U.S. Healthcare System
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
SURESCRIPTS AND NEXTGEN HEALTHCARE TAKE IMPORTANT STEP TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CARE COLLABORATION AND COORDINATION ACROSS THE U.S. HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
NextGen Healthcare to Connect to The Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability to Enable Healthcare Providers to Share Clinical Health Information Among Care Providers and Organizations Across Institutional Boundaries
ARLINGTON, Va. and HORSHAM,
Pa. - November 14, 2012 - Surescripts and NextGen
Healthcare, a leading electronic health records (EHR) provider to
the ambulatory and inpatient healthcare markets, today announced
that NextGen Healthcare will connect to The Surescripts Network for
Clinical Interoperability™. This connectivity will enable
NextGen Healthcare users-approximately 75,000 clinicians-to
reliably and securely send and receive vital clinical information
across physician practices, hospitals, health centers and other
healthcare entities nationwide, thereby improving
communication.
"Every day, critical clinical information is kept from where it
needs to go by technical barriers to clear channels of
communication. These obstacles produce an incomplete view of
patient records, create the potential for risk to patient health,
and increase the cost of healthcare," said Harry Totonis, president
and CEO of Surescripts. "With our relationship with NextGen, we are
continuing to make headway in improving the efficient coordination
of patient care throughout the United States. Now, NextGen
users have a tangible, real-time solution to their connectivity
challenges via the Surescripts network. Surescripts has led the way
in e-prescribing, and now we are delivering broad expanded
connectivity and clinical messaging platforms that enable diverse
parties to work together to enable better care."
"Surescripts understands the challenges we face as an EHR vendor
and is providing us with a scalable, flexible and enduring solution
that will position us for future growth," said Ike Ellison,
executive vice president of business development for NextGen
Healthcare. "By using the Surescripts network, our customers can
improve the care they provide to their patients because they can
more easily share important health information with peers."
NextGen Healthcare clinicians will be able to seamlessly share
vital clinical care information via an integrated messaging and
collaboration platform powered by The Surescripts Network for
Clinical Interoperability. NextGen Healthcare joins other
world-class EHR vendors currently connecting to The Surescripts
Network for Clinical Interoperability, enabling more than 300,000
care providers in acute and ambulatory settings across the United
States.
Clinical interoperability, viewed by experts as the next critical
step in accelerating the digital transformation of the nation's
healthcare system, makes it possible for a patient's healthcare
providers to electronically share with one another, in a secure and
confidential environment, that patient's health information and
clinical messages while providing care. With clinical
interoperability, treating practitioners can have a more complete
view of a patient's status and the care being rendered, and can
more easily collaborate and coordinate that patient's care with the
patient's other enabled healthcare providers. The advance of
clinical interoperability plays a central role in a number of
important national healthcare initiatives, including improving
continuity of care, supporting the "meaningful use" of EHRs, and
advancing the patient-centered medical home model of care, as well
as in accountable care, which is characterized by the ability to
move information between systems.
Advantages of The Surescripts Network for Clinical
Interoperability
The Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability is
currently being used by the nation's leading health systems and
other providers nationwide. In addition, Surescripts, through
the Lab Interoperability Cooperative, is enabling over 650 hospital
labs to connect to public health agencies. The Lab Interoperability
Cooperative is funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
The Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability allows
clinical care information, including clinical messages,
immunization summaries, CCDs, referrals, discharge summaries and
lab results, to be transmitted between peers, practices and health
systems locally and nationally across all technology platforms.
The Surescripts Network for Clinical Interoperability supports all federal and state policies and standards for health information exchange, including privacy and security standards (such as HIPAA and state law), technology interoperability standards (such as Direct), and message types (such as HL7 and CCDA).
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.
About NextGen Healthcare
NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc., provides integrated clinical,
financial and connectivity solutions for ambulatory, inpatient and
dental provider organizations. For more information, please visit
www.nextgen.com and www.qsii.com. Follow NextGen Healthcare on
Twitter at www.twitter.com/nextgen, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/NextGenHealthcare or
LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/nextgen-healthcare-information-systems.
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Media Contacts:
Elizabeth Hutter
WCG for Surescripts
212-259-0490
ehutter@wcgworld.com
Michelle Rovner
NextGen Healthcare
215-657-7010
mrovner@nextgen.com
