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Solving Medication Management

A Team-Based Approach to Nullifying Non-adherence

About the Webinar Program Objectives Webinar Will Answer These Questions Speakers Who Should Attend Purchase Options Continuing Education Questions About URAC

Attend from your desktop or conference room. Invite your whole team to attend!   Rate:  $329 per location, includes access to CE portal and continuing education credits for up to five (5) users. Additional seats may be purchased at rate of $50.00. Special rate available for solo practitioners and the military. Please call 301-354-1769 for details.  Each registration comes with access to the archived version of the program and the materials until December 31, 2012. Continuing Professional Education: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hour for nurses, and certified case managers

The challenges facing healthcare teams include systemic issues that center around access, quality of care, and high costs. Across settings, one of the fundamental drivers contributing to the crisis is medication non-adherence.

According to Dr. Regina Benjamin, U.S. Surgeon General, patient medication non-adherence is a problem that causes more than one-third of medicine-related hospitalizations, nearly 125,000 U.S. deaths each year and adds $290 billion in avoidable costs to the healthcare system annually.

Yet, despite the growing recognition of the challenges surrounding medication adherence, little progress has been made to improve adherence at a population level.

Join us on November 13, 2012, to learn about innovative patient-centered medication management programs making strides in improving medication adherence. The faculty will provide practical tips that you and your team take away and implement in your setting.

About the Webinar

Medication adherence refers to patients who take their medications as prescribed and whether they continue to take a prescribed medication as they should. Approximately 187 million Americans take one or more prescription medications in the treatment of both acute and chronic diseases.

If medications are not filled, refilled or taken correctly, significant adverse consequences can result. Poor medication adherence takes its toll on the healthcare system through unnecessary illness, disability, premature death, and wasteful spending.

A successful approach to medication adherence is one that is patient-centered, leverages the unique skill-sets of the pharmacist, and is ideally coordinated by a dedicated high-performance care team with timely sharing of pharmacy data.

NEHI, a nonprofit, health policy institute, identified the four most promising solutions for public and private policymakers to pursue in addressing the issue of medication adherence as part of health reform efforts, including:

• Creating Healthcare Teams. Although physicians play a key role in improving med­ication adherence, the complexity of the issue necessitates additional support through care teams incorporating nurses, pharmacists and other clinicians. These teams increase the number of checks on adherence as patients move through the healthcare system.

• Patient Engagement and Education. Counseling by primary care providers or phar­macists to ensure that patients understand the important role of their medication in improving their condition is critical to encouraging sustained adherence.

• Payment Reform. Realigning reimbursement incentives would encourage providers to invest in resources such as counseling services that would improve patient outcomes by increasing medication adherence.

• Leveraging Health Information Technology. Secure, reliable and robust informa­tion flows via technologies such as electronic health records, e-prescribing and clinical decision support systems would give providers a full sense of a patient’s current medi­cations, indicating whether a patient has filled or refilled a medication.

To date, measurement of patient medication adherence and use of interventions to improve adherence are rare in routine clinical practice. For this reason, medication adherence has been called the “next frontier in quality improvement.”

Join us on November 13, 2012, as our faculty discusses ideas that will stimulate you and your team to focus on strategies that will improve medication adherence in your patients.

Program Objectives

• Discuss barriers to medication adherence.

• Learn about tools that help measure adherence as well those that are available to assist consumers in improving adherence.

• Share strategies that providers and payers can implement.

Our Webinar Will Answer These Questions

• What impact does limited to access to care have on medication adherence?
• How is quality affected by medication non-adherence?
• How does medication non-adherence escalate healthcare costs?
• What role does the consumer have in adhering to treatment for chronic medical conditions?
• How can the multidisciplinary care team work together to address medication non-adherence?
• What barriers exist that can be broken down in order to solve medication non-adherence?

 

Faculty

Amanda Brummel, PharmD, Director, Clinical Ambulatory Pharmacy Services, Certified Pharmaceutical Care Pharmacist with Fairview Pharmacy Services, LLC Dr. Brummel is the manager of the Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Program at Fairview Health Systems.  In this position she responsible for the program oversight/business plan, including the supervision of 9 MTM practitioners in 14 different locations.

Lynne Fiscus, MD, MPH, Medical Director with Fairview Clinics Dr. Ficus, is a practicing primary care physician and the physician site lead for Fairview Medical Group and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.  She currently serves as the physician lead over two busy primary care clinics and an urgent care. She has a passion for inter-professional collaboration and serves as the collaborating physician for the pharmacists within the Group.

Leanne Roggemam,RN, MPH Director of Nursing Services from Fairview Clinics Leann oversees the delivery of nursing care in the ambulatory clinics in Fairview Medical Group. In addition, she oversees and implements the RN specific visits that are developed to manage populations that can benefit with protocol based care delivery. These visits are based on education, motivational interviewing, and patient focused goal setting.

Edward D Shanshala II, MSHSA, MSEd Chief Executive Officer HRSA Pharmacy Collaborative PSPC National Expert Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc.

Moderator:  Anne Llewellyn RN-BC, MS, BHSA, CCM, CRRN  Editor in Chief, Case Management Products  Dorland Health, a division of Access Intelligence

 

Who Should Attend

Behavioral Health Counselors Case/Care Managers Discharge Planners Clinical Nurses Disability management specialist Nurse Practitioners Managed Care Directors

Medical Assistance Pharmacists Patient Advocates Physician Assistances Practice Management Professionals Patient Centered Medical Home Consultant

Purchase Options

• $329 per location, unlimited viewing per location, limited to 5 eLearning accounts (a special rate is available for solo practitioners and the military. Please call 301-354-1769 for promo code for a price reduction if you qualify.
• Live Webinar Registration – $329 (per-site fee)
• Webinar Recording on CD-ROM – $329
• Live Webinar and CD-ROM – $379

About URAC

URAC has developed its Patient Centered Health Care Home (PCHCH) programs to educate and guide health care practices, and their sponsoring health plans, insurers and pilot programs through transformation into truly patient-centered health care homes. Learn more »

Continuing Professional Education

Nurses: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hours for nurses by Commonwealth Educational Seminars (CES). As an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider Number CEP 15567), CES Programs are accepted by every State Board of Nursing with the exception of Delaware.

Certified Case Management: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hours through the Commission for Case Manager Certification.

Disability Management Specialists: This program is approved for 1.5 contact hours through the Certification of Disability Management Specialists Commission.

Questions?

For questions regarding the Webinar or to register by phone, contact Hope Kabik at 301-354-1769.

For content questions regarding this Webinar, contact Anne Llewellyn at 954-254-2950 or email allewellyn@dorlandhealth.com.

*Dorland Health does not offer any refunds for the webinar.  All sales are final.

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How Does the Webinar Work?

The live audio is delivered to your location over the telephone or your computer speakers. The Power-Point presentations are presented over the Internet and are available to print out before the program. This is like a talk-radio program with visuals on the Web. You and your team will be able to have a live Q&A with all the speakers.

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