The prior authorization process is a frequent, time-consuming process for physicians. A survey of 1,000 physicians revealed they made prior authorization requests 37 times per week on average, according to data from the American Medical Association.

SAN DIEGO—July 25, 2017—InteliSyS Health™, pioneer of the first real-time prescription transparency platform, announced today that is has been selected as a finalist in this year’s Fierce Innovation Awards: Healthcare Edition 2017, an awards program from the publisher of FierceHealthcare. InteliSys Health was recognized as a finalist in the category of Clinical Information Management.

One aspect of the digital health boom has been the development of tools providing greater transparency for the diverse cost of medical procedures to employers and consumers.

The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) will work with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services office (PBM) to facilitate their integration of ICER reports into VA’s formulary management process of evaluating the comparative clinical effectiveness and value of drugs.

SAN DIEGO—July 11, 2017—InteliSyS Health™, pioneer of the first real-time prescription transparency platform, announced that former Allscripts Chief Technology Officer and Chief Innovation Officer Stanley Crane has joined the executive team as CTO. Crane will guide development of InteliSys’ breakthrough point-of-care drug pricing and medication adherence tools, as well as spearhead new products in additional markets.

June 20, 2017. InteliScript, pioneer of the first real-time prescription transparency platform, today announced that it has changed its name to InteliSys Health™. The change reflects the company’s strategic expansion beyond prescribing-focused solutions to a cloud-based platform.

The recent story about the rift over prescription drug prices between insurer Anthem and its pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts should anger — and frankly, befuddle — any physician or electronic health record (EHR) vendor. Providers and IT vendors should be fed up with payers and patients getting ripped off by inflated drug prices, taking a disproportionate share of the healthcare dollar.

The House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act earlier this year; the Senate is currently working on its version.

Critics have said for years that pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices are so opaque that employers and insurers who hire them can’t know whether the powerful middlemen are saving them money or driving up costs.

Anthem’s decision to cut ties with its long-time pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, saying it withheld billions in cost savings, is bound to turn up the heat on PBMs over the soaring cost of prescription drugs.