Webinar: Effective tools to improve medication affordability and adherence

The development of new technology solutions is changing the way clinicians prescribe medication, enabling healthcare organizations to easily find prescription options that they're confident patients can access, afford and adhere to.

Join us for an upcoming webinar where physician and pharmacy leaders will share real-word examples of how EHR integration, real-time prescription benefit and e-prescribing are boosting patient medication adherence, reducing the need for prior authorizations, and leading to cost savings and improving patient outcomes.

Key insights from the webinar will be:

• A deep dive into how specific technology solutions are make it simpler for clinicians to choose affordable medications
• Best practices for implementing solutions including how to successfully integrate them into complicated workflows
• Real-world examples of how healthcare organizations are saving money and improving patient outcomes after implementing prescription solutions

Nele Jessel, MD
Chief Medical Officer
athenahealth

Dr. Nele Jessel is a board-certified clinical informaticist and pediatrician with a passion for health information technology. The chief medical officer at athenahealth, Nele is well-versed in both private practice as well as healthcare enterprise management, including coding and regulatory compliance. She’s also a perennial optimist and cheerleader for electronic health record technology with the prerequisite interpersonal and teaching skills to successfully navigate provider and staff resistance to technology adoption.

Priyank Patel, Pharm.D.
Owner and Pharmacist
Felicity Pharmacy

Priyank Patel, Pharm.D., is the owner of Felicity Pharmacy, a community pharmacy in the Bronx, New York City. Patel has doubled the pharmacy’s prescription volume while also expanding clinical services. He has done this in part by building on communication and collaboration tools that automate processes.

Andrew Mellin, MD
VP, Chief Medical Information Officer
Surescripts

Andrew Mellin, MD, MBA, is VP, Chief Medical Information Officer at Surescripts, where he helps the Surescripts Network Alliance improve the care experience for both providers and patients with a focus on technology and smart workflow solutions. Dr. Mellin has over 20 years of experience in health information technology, patient quality and safety, consumer health and EHR implementation and adoption. He is board certified in internal medicine and worked as a part-time hospitalist in St. Paul, Minnesota for 15 years.

Surescripts serves the nation through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, to increase patient safety, lower costs and improve the quality of care. Surescripts aligns healthcare organizations across the nation and gives healthcare professionals the trusted insights they need to serve patients.

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