Established to bring together organizations committed to evolving the care team by improving pharmacy interoperability.
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Patients benefit when their care team is connected. Pharmacies are essential destinations for prescription pick up and other routine care services, but what happens at the pharmacy often stays at the pharmacy. And when information is missing about a patient, phone calls and faxes slow pharmacists down. This is a problem over 40 health care organizations are working to solve through the Pharmacy Workgroup. Join us to learn about pharmacy use cases for health information exchange and how pharmacy systems are evolving to address new opportunities for care delivery.
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National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, Inc. (NCPDP)
Be part of a nationwide community of practice that fosters and broadens clinical interoperability for pharmacies across the healthcare ecosystem, identifies practical solutions to shared challenges for pharmacy clinical data exchange, closes gaps in pharmacy interoperability readiness and adoption, co-creates priorities and requirements for data usability in the pharmacy context, and shares learnings and best practices. Together, we can develop practical guidance to remove barriers to providing clinical services at scale.
Our nation faces a primary care shortage and patients are diagnosed with chronic conditions more than ever before. Pharmacists are trained to provide patient services as members of integrated care teams, however broader interoperability is needed to help this valuable resource fill the care gap.
Participation in the Pharmacy Workgroup requires Sequoia membership. Learn more about membership dues and benefits. Learn more about membership dues and benefits.
Once you have registered to be a Sequoia member, you can join the Pharmacy Workgroup.
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A series of Listening Sessions revealed challenges the new workgroup is poised to address: Overcoming technical challenges for pharmacists to engage in clinical interoperability with other care team members, Identifying and operationalizing the information pharmacists need to access and share with other providers and payers, and Characterizing the benefits of pharmacy interoperability for all stakeholders.
This document outlines real-world pharmacy care scenarios, highlighting where interoperability can strengthen care delivery, enhance quality, reduce unnecessary costs, and ensure pharmacists are connected, recognized, and empowered as essential members of the care team.
Hear about barriers to interoperability from this panel of pharmacy experts:
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National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, Inc. (NCPDP)
National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)
National Association of Chain Drugstores (NACDS)
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Altera Health
American Medical Association
AnewHealth
APhA Foundation
CVS Health
Department of Veteran Affairs
DrFirst
Engelen Consulting Group
Epic
Granada Health, Inc.
HCA Healthcare
HEB
Humana
Intermountain Health
Kno2
KONZA
Kroger Health
Leavitt Partners
MedAllies
MedMe Health
Metriport
National Association of Chain Drugstores (NACDS)
National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA)
National Community Pharmacists Association Foundation (NCPA)
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Optum Insight
Oracle Corporation
Pfizer
Pharmacy HIT Collaborative
PointClickCare
Point-of-Care Partners
ReNue Rx Pharmacy
Sam’s Health Mart Pharmacies
STCHealth
Surescripts
The Marty Firm LLC
Thrifty White Pharmacy
UConn School of Pharmacy
VillageMD
Walmart
Zephyr Informatics
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Interoperability Matters a public-private cooperative solving discrete health information exchange challenges through a variety of workgroups and initiatives. Learn More
Workgroup organized to assist understanding the barriers consumers face in accessing health information.
Workgroup organized to help propose and develop strategies to meet consumer healthcare needs.
Workgroup that targets improvements necessary to enable semantic interoperability of health information.
Workgroup focused on the on-the-ground approaches to facilitate information sharing.
Workgroup Inactive Workgroup that explores and recommends methods to improve interoperability amongst payers.
Workgroup that is committed to improving pharmacy interoperability.
Workgroup focused on supporting proper information exchange that protects consumers privacy.
Community of Practice focused on providing participants with best practices at the intersection of public health.
Committee is focused on facilitating and prioritizing the work of the Interoperability Matters Workgroups.
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TEFCA™, outlines a common set of principles, terms, and conditions to support the development of a Common Agreement that helps enable the nationwide exchange of electronic health information (EHI) across disparate health information networks (HINs).
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