Remote Delivery of Comprehensive Medication Management Services – An Interview with the Clinical Pharmacists
By: Emily Ruiz Escobar Clinical pharmacists, Dr. Jeremy Thomas and Dr. Alyssa Lee, are currently providing Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) services via telehealth to patients with diabetes in eight clinics in rural and underserved areas of North Carolina and Arkansas. … Read more
Prescription Drug Importation as a Means to Reduce Costs
Author: Ben Penley Per capita, prescription drug costs in the US are the highest among all countries.1 High costs have a direct impact on access: 79% of patients find prescription drug costs unreasonable and 25% have difficulty affording their medications.2,3 Barriers … Read more
Expanding Medication Optimization Into Patient Homes
Rural populations report significantly poorer healthcare quality, partly due to limited healthcare resources, including pharmacy services[1]. COVID19 further exacerbated this access gap, highlighting an even greater need to protect vulnerable patients with multiple comorbidities. Telemedicine has been identified as an … Read more
Achieving High Fidelity to Ensure High Quality Patient Care
Ensuring consistency in patient-centered delivery of comprehensive medication management (CMM) across the 12 organizations and over 30 pharmacists is one of the most important components to Slice of PIE. To determine the extent to which the CMM patient care process … Read more
Motivation to Participate in the Collaborative: The Pharmacists’ Perspective
By: Erin Suomala and Cory Middendorf Our contributors for this blog post are two Slice of PIE Field Experts who also have active teams participating in Slice of PIE. We appreciate their thoughts and contributions to this program. The … Read more
Ready? Set. Go! How can you get ready to implement your pharmacy initiative?
Have you ever had trouble implementing a new initiative into your practice? Have you tried delivering a new service, but it was not as successful as you had hoped? If this situation seems familiar to you, you are not alone. … Read more
All Teach, All Learn to Impact Health Across the Community
In Slice of PIE, 12 community pharmacy organizations representing over 100 pharmacies in Minnesota are working together to improve individual health and reduce patient care costs through engaging at least 1,000 patients in an initial and at least one follow … Read more
Implementation science is vital to the success of Slice of PIE
“What does implementation science (IS) have to do with PIE?” We’re so glad you asked! Though it has less to do with the delicious culinary creation than one might like, it will be vital to the success of the Slice … Read more
A value-based program between health plan and pharmacy practitioners
What is the program? UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and HealthPartners have formed a partnership to facilitate a learning and action collaborative around the delivery of medication therapy management (MTM) services for HealthPartners Partners in … Read more
With coronavirus pandemic complexity abounds, solutions are on the horizon.
By: Drew Stenger and Jon Easter, RPh Long before the COVID-19 pandemic was spreading across the globe, the U.S. was already facing an epidemic in healthcare that was spreading, costly, and ultimately unsustainable relative to healthcare spending. That … Read more