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5 Key Areas of Focus for Effective Comprehensive Medication Management

Medication Management

5 Key Areas of Focus for Effective Comprehensive...

Comprehensive medication management (CMM) is an extremely valuable service for health plans and ...

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Medication Management

Setting Your Patients Up for a Healthier Year

Improve Medication Management and Health Outcomes With Clinical Pharmacist Support It's the ...

Must-Read Medication Management Articles From November 2022

Medication Management

Must-Read Medication Management Articles From...

Here are some of the most significant news reports published in November to keep you better ...

Must-Read Medication Management Articles from October 2022

Medication Reconciliation

Must-Read Medication Management Articles from...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

Must-Read Medication Management Articles from September 2022

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Must-Read Medication Management Articles from...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

Must-Read Medication Management Articles From August 2022

Medication Management

Must-Read Medication Management Articles from...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

Must-Read Medication Management Articles from July 2022

Medication Management

Must-Read Medication Management Articles from...

Here are some of the most important news reports published in July to inform you about the most ...

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10 Must-Read Medication Management Articles From...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

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Medication Management

10 Must-Read Medication Management Articles From...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

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Medication Management

10 Must-Read Medication Management Articles From...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

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Medication Management

10 Must-Read Medication Management Articles From...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

must read medication management articles

Medication Management

10 Must-Read Medication Management Articles From...

To keep you better informed about the biggest trends and developments affecting medication ...

Importance of Medication Management for Congestive Heart Failure

Medication Management

Importance of Medication Management for...

It's American Heart Month, a time when there is increased attention paid to cardiovascular health ...

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HEDIS® Measures: Medication Management's Role in...

In its 2022 update to the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®), the National ...

How Pharmacists Improve Medication Management

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How Pharmacists Improve Medication Management at...

Transitions of care — defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) as "The ...

Deprescribing of Benzodiazepines

Medication Management

HEDIS® 2022: Understanding Deprescribing of...

When the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) issued its 2022 update to the Healthcare ...

6 Common Causes of Medication Errors

Medication Management

6 Common Causes of Medication Errors

Mistakes in the medications patients take are in many ways a hidden patient safety problem. Data ...

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Medication Management

What Happened With Medications: 10 of the Biggest...

As we approach the end of 2021, it's a good time to look back on the year and identify some of the ...

Improving Chronic Care Management

Medication Management

Improving Chronic Care Management: Essential Role...

The chronic disease crisis in the United States was already on a rapid rise before 2020. Then ...

Medication Management

What Experts Are Saying: The Challenges of...

We've had a lot to say about medication adherence over the years. So much, in fact, that we created ...

Medication Management

How Social Determinants of Health Affect...

The Healthy People initiative — a national effort that sets goals and objectives to improve the ...

Medication Management

5 Financial Benefits of Improving Your Medication...

The top reason a healthcare organization should work to improve its medication management program ...

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How the Medication Therapy Management...

A while back, we compared medication therapy management (MTM) and comprehensive medication ...

Enhanced Medication Services

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Enhanced Medication Services: Go Beyond...

We have a bone to pick with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC states ...

Understanding Medication Therapy Management and Its Flaws

Medication Management

What Is MTM: Understanding Medication Therapy...

If you've come to this blog to get an answer to the question, "What is medication therapy ...

Medication Adherence

The Biggest Medication Management Developments...

A few weeks have passed since the end of 2020, and what a year it was. What occurred last year will ...

Medication Adherence

Medication Management 2020 Year in Review: 9 Key...

As we approach the end of 2020, let's look back at nine of the most significant facts and figures ...

2019-Medication Management-Year in Review

Medication Management

Medication Management: 2019 Year in Review

As we approach the end of the year, let’s examine some of the most significant news and ...

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Medication Management

Medication Events Pose Safety Risk to Ambulatory...

ECRI Institute has identified medication-related events as one of the most frequent safety risks ...

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Medication Management

When a Primary Care Physician Misses Medication...

This is the third in a series of blog posts that describe common challenges associated with ...

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Handling Missed Therapeutic Duplication at...

This is the second blog in a series of patient scenarios that describe common challenges associated ...

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Serious Medication Errors and Hospital Admissions

Last month, we began a series of blog posts that cover patient scenarios that describe common ...

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Medication Management

The Difficulty of Morphine Milligram Equivalent...

Every day, at least 130 people are projected to die from opioid-related drug overdoses, reports the ...

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Medication Management

Why EMRs Don't Cut It and a Better Solution

When we set out to develop the Meds 360° medication management platform, we wanted to eliminate the ...

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Medication Management

How Chronic Disease Management Saves Money and...

How important is chronic disease management? Here are some statistics and facts about chronic ...

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How CMM Helps Meet Medication Therapy Management...

In 2003, passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) ...

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Medication Management

How Telepharmacy Enables Comprehensive Medication...

What if you could deliver comprehensive medication management services in your healthcare ...

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Medication Management

Understanding How CMM Can Improve Chronic Pain...

In a recent article, we discussed some benefits of comprehensive medication management (CMM). While ...

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3 Reasons Your CMM Program Needs a Collaborative...

Organizations striving to implement comprehensive medication management (CMM) programs are ...

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Why Comprehensive Medication Management Should...

The U.S. health system’s current standard of care for optimizing medication therapy is not working. ...

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The Future of Patient Medication Management

Looking to improve patient medication management? Few initiatives have the potential deliver the ...

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Comprehensive Medication Management in Pharmacy...

A recent study calculated the cost of prescription drug related morbidity and mortality to be ...

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Physician Burnout from Value-Based Care: Why CMM...

There was recently some good news about physician burnout. As an American Medical Association ...

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Medication Management

7 Best Practices for Comprehensive Medication...

As we discussed in a previous blog, there are many comprehensive medication management benefits. ...

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Medication Management

8 Benefits of Comprehensive Medication Management

Ensuring proper medication therapy isn't easy. As an American College of Clinical Pharmacy notes, ...

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6 Barriers to Comprehensive Medication Management

Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM) has become a more widely used way to improve outcomes and ...

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How Nursing Interventions Fill a Vital Need for...

According to Gallup's latest annual poll on how the general American public views various ...

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Medication Management

How Physicians Can Prevent or Better Manage...

Polypharmacy is a term to describe patients who are taking multiple prescription medications, over ...

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Medication Management

What is Polypharmacy? 7 Things to Know

In simple terms, “polypharmacy” refers to the use of multiple (“poly”) medications (“pharmacy”). A ...

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Medication Management

5 Ways a Drug Interactions App Can Improve...

There's no lack of medical apps for clinicians to choose from these days. A 2018 analysis of the ...

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The Importance of Drug Interactions in Medication...

Drug interactions represent a significant threat to the wellbeing of patients. As part of their ...

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Medication Management

Medication Therapy Management & Comprehensive...

Medication therapy is a critical therapeutic component of treating disease and keeping people ...

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6 Ways Polypharmacy Creates Medication Adherence...

Polypharmacy is the simultaneous use of multiple medications by patients to treat one or more ...

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Medication Management

Meeting Your Medication Management Needs with...

Q&A with Michael Ross MD, MHA Following a recent webinar on "Optimizing Medication Management ...

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Medication Management

What's the Importance of Medication Education for...

It's easy for patients to make significant mistakes with their medications. We know this because ...

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Medication Management

The Importance of Medication Administration: 5...

Ensuring that medications are given safely and accurately is a cornerstone of safe medical care. ...

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Medication Management

7 Challenges of Medication Management in Hospitals

Medication management in hospitals is vitally important to the delivery of safe care. As the RARE ...

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8 Tips for the Medication Management Process

Medication management is the process of overseeing the medications prescribed for a patient to ...

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Medication Management

6 Medication Error Stories That Made Headlines

Medication errors can occur at any time between when a clinician prescribes a medication and a ...

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Medication Management

How These 8 Medication Management Activities Can...

Medication management is a patient-focused approach to helping patients take their medicines ...

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Medication Management

There's Much Work to Be Done: 8 Medical Errors...

Preventing medical errors must be a high priority for any healthcare provider. They are avoidable, ...

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Medication Management

How Can Healthcare Address the Problem of Opioid...

Opioids claimed over 64,000 lives in 2017 and data show an almost fourfold increase in overdose ...

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Medication Management

6 Ways Clinicians Can Improve Medication...

As people age, their risk of medication-related problems increases. As a Consumer Reports article ...

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Medication Management

5 Qualities of Medication Management Systems for...

Effective medication management is vital to achieving optimal outcomes. When providers can help ...

Patient Medication Management

Medication Management

Why Patient Medication Management is Necessary

Clinicians can do a lot to keep their patients healthy. They can diagnose ailments and provide ...

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Medication Management

The Role of Medication Adherence in Medication...

To determine whether an organization's efforts to assist patients with medication management were ...

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Medication Management

3 Medication Management Goals to Set for Your...

All the terrific treatment your organization provides to a patient may be for naught if that ...

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Medication Management

4 Medication Management Tools to Improve Patient...

Death. Disability. Hospitalization. These are just some of the more harmful results of medication ...

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Medication Management

How to Develop a Medication Management Care Plan

It’s well known and documented that medication adherence can mean the difference between a ...

Safe Medication Management

Medication Management

4 Guidelines for Safe Medication Management

With hundreds of millions of drugs ordered or provided every year in hospitals, the cost associated ...

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Medication Management

4 Medication Management Tips for Providers

Health care providers' primary responsibility is to do all within their power to help treat and ...

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Medication Management

5 Medication Management Services

Spend some time researching medication adherence and you will inevitably come across this famous ...

Importance of Medication Safety

Medication Management

Importance of Medication Safety: How to Protect...

How does your hospital or clinic keep patients safe from medication harm? In chaotic emergency ...

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Medication Management

What is Medication Management? Best Practices for...

Many chronic and acute conditions can be successfully treated with medications. As long as patients ...