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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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