What is Surescripts Prescription History for Hospitals Service?
In 2003 RxHub (now Surescripts) created RxHub MEDS, leveraging the expertise in e-prescribing to bring a patient’s pharmacy claims history to the point of an acute care admission. RxHub’s merger with Surescripts allows this service to expand and potentially include prescription dispensing data from community pharmacies. Patient prescription claims history information is an accurate and longitudinal record of how a patient acquires prescriptions through their drug benefit. The patient prescription claims history information returned to the Surescripts certified technology applications include the following data components: Drug name Dose Quantity dispensed Days supply Dispensing pharmacy and phone number Prescribing physician. The patient prescription claims history information represents a selected timeframe of prescriptions purchased utilizing the patient’s active pharmacy benefit(s). Some patients may have multiple active coverage. All coverage with prescription histories from partic
