Surescripts’ Tara Dragert Appointed to NCPDP Foundation Board to Collaborate and Support Research That Improves Data Sharing
25 June 2024 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Tara Dragert, Chief Product Officer of Surescripts®, the
nation’s leading health information network, was recently appointed
to serve on the board of trustees for the NCPDP Foundation during
NCPDP's Annual Technology & Business Conference in Scottsdale,
AZ.
“It is an honor to join the NCPDP Foundation’s board of
trustees. With challenges facing nearly every part of healthcare,
we are at a truly pivotal moment where collaboration and innovation
can meaningfully improve the healthcare journey for patients and
clinicians across the country,” said Dragert.
As a 2023‒2024 Designated Subcommittee Member, Dragert will
support the NCPDP Foundation mission with a focus on approving
grants that support the use of standards to make the electronic
exchange of healthcare information more accurate, complete and
timely. The NCPDP Foundation collaborates with organizations and
individuals to support research initiatives that improve data
sharing throughout the healthcare ecosystem, removing obstacles to
quality care for patients.
"I’m especially excited to see NCPDP continue supporting and
enabling greater care team collaboration, in particular, ensuring
pharmacists can practice at the top of their training and education
to maintain access to care for patients, no matter where they
live,” added Dragert. “It’s also an opportunity to continue
advancing health intelligence sharing at scale, creating
efficiencies across healthcare while also supporting better
informed, safer and less costly care for patients.”
As their essential role in the COVID-19 response made clear,
pharmacists are well positioned to fill some gaps in care—if they
can get the tools, information and support they need. In fact, nine
in 10 prescribers and virtually all pharmacists surveyed in 2023
supported a shift toward team-based care. Both groups ranked better
patient outcomes as the top benefit of pharmacists taking on more
patient care responsibilities.
Dragert joined Surescripts in 2010 and today serves as Chief
Product Officer. In this role, she leads teams who are developing
innovative technologies to better serve patients and the clinicians
who are entrusted with their care. Dragert has spent her career in
healthcare technology serving the payer, provider and network
industries. She has a reputation for peeling apart the layers of
problems and opportunities in healthcare, identifying technology
solutions, and continuously driving improvement and change.
About Surescripts Our purpose is to serve the nation
through simpler, trusted health intelligence sharing, in order to
increase patient safety, lower costs and ensure quality care. At
Surescripts, we align healthcare organizations across the nation
and convene the Surescripts Network Alliance® to give healthcare
professionals the trusted insights they need to serve patients.
Together, we’re making interoperability an everyday reality, making
it simpler to choose medications patients can afford and adhere to,
and getting specialty medications to patients more efficiently.
Visit us at surescripts.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
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Kate Giaquinto Surescripts (571) 290-6859
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