Surescripts^®, the nation's leading health intelligence network, will present on healthcare interoperability as part of a panel of healthcare leaders at the 2025 Nourishing Change Conference hosted by Kroger Health, May 13-15 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“I can’t wait to join industry leaders as part of a panel at the 2025 Nourishing Change Conference to share insights and discuss how we can continue to focus on innovations that make a meaningful difference for patients and the people who serve them,” said Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer for Surescripts.

“Healthcare is facing serious challenges, from provider burnout to patients not being able to access or afford care. It’s a challenge that collaboration and innovation that advances health intelligence sharing can help solve. When clinicians and care providers are better informed, it accelerates decisions, keeping patient care on track," added Marcus.

To learn more, check out the panel discussion:

What Does Optimal Interoperability Look Like?

When: May 14, 2025, 2:00-3:15PM

Location: Breakout Sessions--Part One

Overview: What would it take for every part of the health system to connect and communicate? This session explores the path to true interoperability—what it looks like in practice, where it’s already working, and how we expand its impact across every community.

Panelists: Melanie Marcus, Surescripts, Yousuf Ahmad, AssureCare, David Pope, XiFin Pharmacy Solutions and moderator, Elizabeth Koonin, UnitedHealthcare.

Background:

In 2024, Surescripts supported 27.2 billion exchanges of patient clinical and benefit information, enabling 2.29 million healthcare professionals and organizations with access to clinical and benefit information for virtually every insured American.

Health intelligence sharing at scale is helping to increase patient safety, lower costs and improve the quality of care by enabling:

• 2.6 billion electronic prescriptions to be delivered in 2024, helping patients get needed medications faster and safer.
• Nearly 900,000 prescribers with technology like Real-Time Prescription Benefit to saving patients an average of $82 per prescription and more than $1,000 per specialty medication.
• Touchless Prior Authorization, improving efficiency for care providers and reducing the average time to approve a prior authorization from more than one hour to just 34 seconds, helping patients get needed medications faster.

For more information about how Surescripts is helping improve healthcare for patients and the people who serve them, check out Surescripts 2024 Annual Impact Report.

About Surescripts

Our purpose is to serve the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. At Surescripts, we bring healthcare together to inform and accelerate decisions, helping keep patient care on track. With the Surescripts Network Alliance®, we’re empowering the healthcare ecosystem with intelligence and interoperability for smarter, faster prescribing, prior authorization, treatment, care management and more. Visit us at surescripts.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

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“I can’t wait to join industry leaders at the 2025 Nourishing Change Conference to share insights & discuss how we can focus on innovations that make a meaningful difference for patients," said Melanie Marcus, Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer.