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For more than 30 years, Cabling Installation & Maintenance has provided useful, practical information to professionals responsible for the specification, design, installation and management of structured cabling systems serving enterprise, data center and other environments. These professionals are challenged to stay informed of constantly evolving standards, system-design and installation approaches, product and system capabilities, technologies, as well as applications that rely on high-performance structured cabling systems. Our editors synthesize these complex issues into multiple information products. This portfolio of information products provides concrete detail that improves the efficiency of day-to-day operations, and equips cabling professionals with the perspective that enables strategic planning for networks’ optimum long-term performance.

Throughout our annual magazine, weekly email newsletters and 24/7/365 website, Cabling Installation & Maintenance digs into the essential topics our audience focuses on.

  • Design, Installation and Testing: We explain the bottom-up design of cabling systems, from case histories of actual projects to solutions for specific problems or aspects of the design process. We also look at specific installations using a case-history approach to highlight challenging problems, solutions and unique features. Additionally, we examine evolving test-and-measurement technologies and techniques designed to address the standards-governed and practical-use performance requirements of cabling systems.
  • Technology: We evaluate product innovations and technology trends as they impact a particular product class through interviews with manufacturers, installers and users, as well as contributed articles from subject-matter experts.
  • Data Center: Cabling Installation & Maintenance takes an in-depth look at design and installation workmanship issues as well as the unique technology being deployed specifically for data centers.
  • Physical Security: Focusing on the areas in which security and IT—and the infrastructure for both—interlock and overlap, we pay specific attention to Internet Protocol’s influence over the development of security applications.
  • Standards: Tracking the activities of North American and international standards-making organizations, we provide updates on specifications that are in-progress, looking forward to how they will affect cabling-system design and installation. We also produce articles explaining the practical aspects of designing and installing cabling systems in accordance with the specifications of established standards.

Cabling Installation & Maintenance is published by Endeavor Business Media, a division of EndeavorB2B.

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Surescripts Transforms Patient Access to Specialty Drugs, Optimizing Adherence

Increased Provider Access to Real-Time Patient Information Means Greater Efficiency, Enhanced Safety and Lower Costs

More prescribers and specialty pharmacists nationwide are adopting Surescripts Specialty Medications solutions to transform the manual process used to prescribe specialty medications, saving time and money for patients and providers.

  • In May 2022, the number of prescribers enabled for Specialty Patient Enrollment was 24% higher than in May 2021.
  • The number of Specialty Medications Gateway transactions was 421% higher in the first five months of 2022 compared to the same time period in 2021.
  • As of May 2022, specialty pharmacists can use Specialty Medications Gateway to access patient information supplied by more than 200,000 prescribers nationwide.
  • Surescripts processed 8.2 million electronic prescriptions for specialty medications between January and May 2022—an 8% increase over the same time period in 2021.
  • From January to May 2022, Surescripts delivered 85% more real-time benefit checks for specialty prescriptions compared to the same time period in 2021.
  • In May 2022, prescribers using Real-Time Prescription Benefit saved patients an average of $534.74 per specialty prescription.

“Eliminating the time-consuming and manual process of prescribing specialty medications and simplifying the delivery of patient information removes delays that threaten medication adherence,” said Frank Harvey, Chief Executive Officer of Surescripts. “It also means healthcare professionals can spend less time on paperwork and more time focused on what matters most: patients’ health.”

In January 2022, Accredo specialty pharmacy implemented automation enhancements with Specialty Medications Gateway to obtain current information for a patient’s weight for use in weight-based dosing. In just two months, Accredo reported that 60% of the time the automated workflow delivered the most recent weight for the patient, creating efficiencies and reducing manual outreach. Accredo also noted that 11% of the updated weight information was of clinical significance (+/- 10% weight change) and created an opportunity for a pharmacist to review and take action to ensure patient safety through accurate dosing.

“In caring for patients with complex diagnoses, specialty pharmacists must work with efficiency and quality,” said Katie Reeves, Senior Product Manager at Accredo. “Surescripts solutions accelerate the process for specialty prescribing, fulfillment and onboarding by filling information gaps with clinical intelligence. Speed and patient safety are enhanced because clean, critical clinical data is automatically delivered from the EHR with the prescription.”

As of May, Accredo is reviewing more than 12,000 specialty prescriptions each month that are informed by patient clinical data that is automatically pulled directly from the electronic health record. As a result, Accredo specialty pharmacists are streamlining the inefficient manual process of enrolling patients for specialty medications and ultimately delivering improved turnaround time and patient safety.

Specialty drugs account for the largest proportion of new medicines launched in the past five years, and retail prices for widely used specialty drugs increased at more than three times the rate of general inflation in 2020.

About Surescripts

Our purpose is to serve the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to increase patient safety, lower costs and improve the quality of care. At Surescripts, we align healthcare organizations across the nation and give healthcare professionals the trusted insights they need to serve patients. We convene the Surescripts Network Alliance® to enhance prescribing, better inform care decisions and advance healthcare as a whole. Visit us at surescripts.com and follow us at twitter.com/surescripts.

In May 2022, prescribers used Real-Time Prescription Benefit to save patients an average of $534.74 per specialty prescription. It’s helping patients with chronic or complex conditions get access to more affordable medications.

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