A New Era of Value-based Care Creates Opportunities for Comprehensive Medication Management

As our health care system is making a monumental shift from fee for service to a value-based business model, provider organizations are now responsible for quality of care and have financial risk. Delivery systems are expected to offer integrated services and coordinated care. Prioritizing clinical pharmacy services through integrated comprehensive medication management across the continuum of care is fundamental and critical for providers and health care organizations to achieve not only the patient quality goals, but to substantially increase access for primary care and other specialty areas by decreasing the workload of these providers.

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AIMM is Building on a Growing Body of Evidence to Launch the 2017/2018 National A3 Collaborative

AIMM brings more than eight years of experience administering learning collaboratives and technical assistance in the quality improvement process and transformational leadership experience.  AIMM began with the Patient Safety and Clinical Pharmacy Services Collaborative, a national movement created in 2008 that promoted the integration of enhanced medication management activities into the work of inter-professional health…

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Health Care Organizations Join Forces to Offer National Learning Collaborative

AIMM; Apexus, and ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) have joined forces to offer the 2017-2018 National A3 Collaborative, a leading-edge learning collaborative that offers healthcare providers support to accelerate the implementation of sustainable comprehensive medication management (CMM) services. Launching this spring, the A3 Collaborative is a yearlong learning experience designed to help healthcare providers and organizations succeed in the new era of value-based payment programs.

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Phenomenal Year End Results Lead AIMM into the 2017 Year

Team performance results from AIMM this year are phenomenal! Participating organizations demonstrated impressive growth in service delivery and improvements in population health management. Applying the principles AIMM supports, teams achieved clinical goals in diabetes and blood pressure management, identified and resolved medication-related problems across diverse patient groups and conditions and expanded and integrated medication management services with existing services, such as behavioral health. Teams are building relationships with physicians and integrating clinical pharmacy services with primary care and quality improvement departments. As AIMM prepares for the 2017 Year, we reflect on 2016 successes and thank our partners.

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Population health and primary care: What to know

By Nicole Lewis If primary care physicians want to succeed pursuing a population health management model of care, they’ll need to begin to radically redesign their practice and think differently about their approach to delivering patient care. In reaction to The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Quality Payment Program, which has several initiatives…

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What Clinical Quality Measures Mean to Healthcare Providers

Clinical quality measures are a cornerstone of efforts to improve care delivery and patient outcomes. However these can be difficult for industry stakeholders to manage. Between the measure requirements for various programs — from meaningful use, to physician programs, to the impending implementation of MACRA — clinical quality reporting is easily jumbled.

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Tracking Your Performance Story Results in Success

AIMM developed an innovative framework for health care organizations participating in the AIMM Collaborative. Organizations assemble as a team and present their actionable results and outcomes in the context of their “performance story.” With a performance story, teams are now accountable on a monthly basis to document and show progress in practice transformation that is related to their own organization’s strategic vision.

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