Seeing What’s Been Missing: How Surescripts Is Making Medication Gaps Visible

Seeing What’s Been Missing: How Surescripts Is Making Medication Gaps Visible

Author: John Lynn December 31, 2025 Duration: 12:51

Millions of prescriptions go unfilled every year and until now, the system had no way to see them.

In this interview, Dr. Lynne Nowak, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Surescripts, joins Healthcare IT Today to discuss how her team is surfacing invisible medication gaps and tackling healthcare’s biggest workflow frustrations: prior authorization and prescription abandonment. She explains how Surescripts’ new First Fill Abandonment tool and touchless prior authorization are turning real-time data into timely care—helping patients start and stay on therapy sooner.

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