Selecting Innovative, Patient-Centered Interventions for the Community Pharmacy Setting: A Four Step Process
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
First of Its Kind Questionnaire Available to Measure Implementation Outcomes in Pharmacy
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
Providing Patient-Centered, Quality-Driven Care in Community Pharmacies
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
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
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