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
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
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
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
A Partnership to Optimize Medications, Create Value and Transform Practice
“Slice of PIE” is not just a triangular wedge of crusted fruit filling. For 13 Minnesota community pharmacy organizations, “Slice of PIE” is also the name of a learning collaborative, which comprises one of two novel strategies in a project … Read more