Surescripts’ 2015 National Progress Report
Surescripts recently published the 2015 National Progress Report. This year’s report is living proof that together with our network partners, we’re leading the industry to a more interoperable future. Here are a few highlights:
- With an average of 8 million e-prescriptions in the U.S. each day in 2015, Surescripts surpassed the global number of Amazon packages shipped (1.4 million) and Uber rides (2 million) each day.
- During 2015, the Surescripts network connected more than one million healthcare professionals and provided access to information on more than 240 million patients.
- Medication History transactions in 2015 equaled three times the U.S. population, and may have saved hospitals more than $400 million.
- The number of providers enabled to use electronic prescribing of controlled substances increased 359 percent in 2015, resulting in a 667 percent increase in e-prescriptions for these critical medications.
You can read the news release below , and use #HITprogress to join the conversation on social media.