By Kathryn Fuller Diabetes Increases Cardiovascular Risk  In the United States, approximately 34.2 million people of all ages have Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes mellitus, and the prevalence of this diagnosis continues to increase annually. Patients who achieve glucose control have a lower risk of … Read more

By: Chloe Richard   The importance of addressing mental health has grown increasingly evident as more people report negative mental health symptoms in recent years. In 2017-2018, 19% of adults experienced symptoms of a mental illness, over 1.5 million more … Read more

Through the Community-based Value-driven Care Initiative (CVCI), the Center for Medication Optimization is working to explore and evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of four patient-centered, quality-driven care interventions delivered in community pharmacies. But first, the four innovative clinical interventions had … Read more

Imagine that you are charged with implementing a new service for your patients. One of your top priorities is ensuring the service is delivered in a way that all of your patients can fully benefit. To optimize its impact, you … Read more

  By: Melanie Livet, Tashani Gaskins, and Chloe Richard   One of the most pressing challenges confronting the United States (US) healthcare system is delivering high-value, effective clinical interventions that improve health outcomes for patients. There has been a recent … Read more

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

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

“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

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

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