Pharmacy-owned firm offers online prescription records
SureScripts expands its services by offering medication histories electronically accessible to physicians and patients.
By Tyler Chin, amednews staff. March 13, 2006.
SureScripts Systems, which operates an electronic prescribing network linking physicians and retail pharmacies around the country, announced that in the spring it will start rolling out a service that makes medication histories available to physicians. The idea is to give physicians access to data they need to avoid potential drug interactions and allergies, and track patient compliance.
Under the initiative, SureScripts will test the service in Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Tennessee, said Tammy Lewis, chief marketing officer of the Alexandria, Va.-based firm, which is owned by two retail pharmacy trade groups. By the end of 2006, the service will be available in a minimum of 10 states, she said. After the initial test with physicians, SureScripts plans to roll out the personal medication record later this year to consumers.
To access the service, physicians must use one of the more than 30 electronic prescribing or electronic medical record software systems that have been certified to work with SureScripts' network.
SureScripts hopes its personal medication record will help increase physician adoption of electronic prescribing, Lewis said, and the company will not charge physicians or companies that sell e-prescribing and EMR systems for the service.
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