Alliance for Integrated Medication Management

11/07/2022

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Happy ! AIMM advocates for the importance of pharmacists working on teams at Federally Qualified Health Centers - check out this paper expanding on the documented success of these integrated interprofessional teams!

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are critical to providing care to underserved populations in the United States. Their focus on interprofessional care has also made FQHCs ideal locations to...

10/17/2022

Happy ! Join us weekly to engage with resources about implementing team-based in your practice. Today, the Pharmacy Times brings a short interview about team-based care delivery. Teams are central to AIMMs approach to implementing

Michael Barr, MD, MBA, MACP, FRCP, discusses the importance of physicians and pharmacists sharing skills to increase positive patient outcomes.

01/05/2022

Are you providing comprehensive medication management services? The is creating the National Registry of Comprehensive Medication Management Practices©, so take a few minutes to offer information on your program.

The GTMRx Evidence-Based Resources Subgroup is working to identify and showcase those who are practicing CMM across the country in order to better characterize where CMM is occurring and provide better resources for emerging and existing CMM practices, which will lead to better access to CMM services and help to achieve practice, payment and policy reform.

Please respond by no later than January 13, 2021. Take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CBS3R3J

12/13/2021

The kicked off on Wednesday, November 3rd with an in-person summit event held on the The University of Utah's campus.

This event convened representatives from eight payers and three health systems with the goal of creating real, sustainable solutions to optimize medications throughout the state.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact Kyle Turner at Kyle.Turner@pharm.utah.edu or Paul Scanlon at pscanlon@aimmweb.org.

12/09/2021

We are excited to announce Alliance for Integrated Medication Management (AIMM) is partnering with the The University of Utah's College of Pharmecy to launch of the Utah Provider, Pharmacist and Payer (UP3) Alliance.

With the University of Utah College of Pharmacy leading this alliance, AIMM is both supporting the design and facilitation of the initiative.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact Kyle Turner at Kyle.Turner@pharm.utah.edu or Paul Scanlon at pscanlon@aimmweb.org.

10/22/2020

We celebrate our recent A3 Collaborative cohort, made up of pharmacy-led interdisciplinary health care teams, who demonstrated remarkable leadership in a time of crisis and found opportunities to continue and enhance patient care!

Our recent leadership blog shares how our A3 Collaborative health care organizations rose to the challenge, and with adaptation and creativity, they were able to keep with the challenging demand to meet the public health crisis head on, while still meeting the medication-related therapy needs of their patients.

The fourteen participating health care organizations in this recent A3 Collaborative are a representation of how the pharmacy community across the country stood up and responded to the COVID pandemic. Instead of shrinking back from responsibilities when the crisis hit, pharmacy, represented in healt...

08/18/2020

Celebrating the success of the A3 Collaborative and preparing for the next evolution of CMM!

AIMM will not immediately resume another A3 Collaborative offering this fall. Going forward, AIMM and partners will work to redesign the collaborative to address the technical and policy challenges of achieving full scale CMM, particularly in light of the evolving healthcare transformation due to COVID-19.

We envision an A3 Collaborative that can help communities:
- Identify and engage populations who require CMM for successful health outcomes.
- Establish CMM operations at scale, across health care systems, regionally, and statewide.
- Generate innovative value-based payment arrangements crafted regionally and locally to finance these service delivery models.
- Continue to evolve CMM operations as part of integrated delivery systems.

The A3 Collaborative initially launched in the Spring of 2017 and has supported more than 100 health systems and organizations implement CMM operations, scale and spread services, and for some, successfully install financial arrangements to ensure sustainability. Going forward, AIMM and partners wil...

08/11/2020

Elizabeth Helms, Director, Chronic Care Policy Alliance; President & CEO, California Chronic Care Coalition; Executive Member, GTMRx Institute and AIMM Board of Director, urges integrating the patient as a member of the health care team, to successfully install comprehensive medication management services. It is their medication plan, after all.

By Elizabeth Helms, Director, Chronic Care Policy Alliance; President & CEO, California Chronic Care Coalition; Executive Member, GTMRx Institute August 5,

07/30/2020

AIMM's Executive Director, Todd Sorensen, joins a panel of subject matter experts to discuss a movement in health care to focus on value and outcomes, and how comprehensive medication management can deliver on that goal.
Listen to the webinar:

Join Paul Grundy, M.D., MPH, FACOEM, FACPM, chief transformation officer of Innovaccer and president of the GTMRx Institute; Todd Sorensen, Pharm.D., FAPhA, FCC

07/16/2020

A3 Collaborative Teams embrace innovation to meet new demands.

A large health system was experiencing rapid growth and pharmacists across the system were concerned that the care process for comprehensive medication management (CMM) services would become inconsistent across practices and produce variable outcomes and value. Pharmacy care teams across the system united in agreement to implement CMM services using a consistent care process; one that ensures fidelity.

High demand for CMM services in a rural health clinic practice made it a challenge for the pharmacy team to meet the need with limited resources and personnel. The clinic partnered with a local college of pharmacy school to establish an offsite patient call center to triage medication-related issues and patient resources.

Pharmacists in a practice clinic supplied patients with personal Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices to track patients’ clinical data remotely and for over a period of time. This device prevented the need for patients to make frequent visits to the practice, which is desired during the pandemic, while still allowing clinical data to be collected and reviewed in a timely manner.

Innovations like these led the A3 Collaborative participants to collectively brainstorm and then identify six drivers to foster innovation for CMM services. These drivers for innovation can be applied across all levels of health care delivery.

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in unprecedented acceleration of new (and waiting) innovations in patient care delivery. It’s important for health care organizations to learn from the rapid transformations they are making and how it can be applied and sustained in the future. Some factors that ...

07/08/2020

Transition-of-Care Pharmacists Fill Gaps During COVID-19

AIMM's A3 Collaborative organizations are profiled for their ability to close the gaps in care during COVID-19. A3 Collaborative project lead, Toni Fera, emphasizes: Pharmacists are learning about COVID-19 with the rest of the system. They’re right on the front lines and they know what’s going on. They’re filling in the gaps in knowledge for patients and physicians.

AIMM has been facilitating special COVID-19 virtual events since March, 2020, for its A3 Collaborative teams to share challenges they are facing as they navigate the demands of this crisis, within their medication management services. These webinars have focused on redesigning delivery systems for new demands, offering telehealth services, and addressing rapidly changing federal and state policies.

Recently, the pharmacy team led by Michael Korczynski, PharmD, at Allegheny Health Network (AHN) in Pittsburgh, reached out to a healthy 22-year-old patient.

06/23/2020

Using Implementation Science in the initiative to catalyze change in community .

The Slice of PIE initiative is a collaborative effort between HealthPartners (HP), the University of Minnesota (UMN),the University of North Carolina (UNC), and the Alliance for Integrated Medication Management (AIMM) to improve and increase delivery of medication therapy management (MTM) within the HealthPartners MTM provider network. It takes its name from HealthPartners’ “Partners in Excellence” (PIE) program, a health plan-wide program to recognize and reward outstanding contributions to beneficiary health. The Slice of PIE initiative is driving impact on care delivery by merging a facilitated community of learning structure around a performance-based payment model for MTM services.

May 18, 2020 “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 of PIE initiative. Implementation science is defined as the study a...