Community pharmacists’ perceptions of acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of a value-based care model for comprehensive medication management
Deborah L. Pestka, PharmD,1 PhD, Morgan K. Stoa, PharmD, 1 Todd D. Sorensen, PharmD, 1 FCCP, Carrie M. Blanchard, PharmD, MPH2 1Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2Center for Medication Optimization, … Read more
Pharmacist Role in Addressing Social Determinants of Health during COVID-19
By: Sabree Burbage & Jordana Levitt COVID-19 continues to have a devastating impact on our economy, our healthcare system, and the well-being of our citizens. It has become increasingly apparent that COVID-19 not only strains the existing healthcare infrastructure, … Read more
Tips for Success from the Collaborative: The Coaches’ Perspective
By: Toni Fera and Dee Melnyk Evans Slice of PIE takes its name from the “Partners in Excellence” (PIE) program, which recognizes outstanding contributions to patient health within a defined health plan. Slice of PIE is a separate but related … Read more
Self-Monitoring Blood Pressure – The Patient and Pharmacist Team
By: Ann Nagle and Chrystian Pereira The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the ability to provide in-person Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) services and therefore made it more difficult for pharmacists to collect the clinical data needed from their patients. For … Read more
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
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
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