SureScripts launches national record locator service
Surescripts, the nation’s largest health information network, will implement its National Record Locator Service with EHR vendors eClinicalWorks, Epic, and Greenway Health, enabling more than 480,000 providers to use the new service to locate and exchange patient health records.
Surescripts’ National Record Locator Service will be implemented according to the Carequality framework for inter-network health information exchange, consisting of legal agreements that enforce the responsibilities in Carequality’s Principles of Trust, and implementation guides that outline business and technical requirements.
The national electronic prescription company’s new service is a federate query and response solution that integrated into the provider workflow through existing EHR software.
"Leveraging Surescripts' National Record Locator Service, we can offer our customers an enormous lean in search and record location capabilities," said Carl Dvorak, president of Epic, in the release. "We look forward to partnering with other payers, vendors and provider organizations to make it easier to find and aggregate patient medical records, regardless of where they have received care, all while ensuring the highest level of security, privacy and patient consent."
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