#CMOs need their physicians to be addressing prescription overload. Why? Not only does it affect patient care and quality, but because medication management is a component of #valuebasedcare, according to Karna Patel MD, MPH, vice president at Tampa General Hospital and president of Tampa General Medical Group. "We are focused more on patient experience, quality, outcomes, and cost of care," Patel says. "Medication management is an important area for CMOs and health systems because if we are aiming for all of those things, we want to make sure patients are getting the medications that are needed—not multiple medications that are duplicated or are interacting." There are other reasons CMOs should be concerned about patients with multiple medications, he told us. "The side effects that can result from multiple medications can lead to increases in #healthcareutilization, risk of going to the emergency department, hospital admissions, or ICU stays," Patel says. "There are other risks such as impacting the quality of life from falls or other injuries." Don’t miss the full story: https://lnkd.in/edxxrPnN HealthLeaders
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April is National Interprofessional Healthcare Month, highlighting collaborative healthcare for top-notch patient care. 🏥 Pharmacists are key players, managing meds, educating patients, and enhancing healthcare teams. 💊 Their role in patient care planning and disease management boosts outcomes and cuts medication errors. 🌟 Let's embrace this multidisciplinary approach for better healthcare! #InterprofessionalHealthcare #Pharmacists #PatientCare
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🌟 Exclusive Learning Session: Immune Essentials! 🌟 Attention pharmacy professionals in my network! As seasons change, so do our health needs. Join Fullscript for "Wellness Prescribed: Immune Essentials for Your Pharmacy Team and Patients" on September 18th at 3:00 pm ET. If you cannot make it live register to get the recording! Learn the latest immune-boosting strategies, enhance patient care, and grow your pharmacy. ✨ Key Takeaways: - Importance of immune support during seasonal transitions - Customizing immune support for individual needs - Overview of Fullscript’s Immune Support Protocol 💬 Live Q&A with Emlah Tubuo! 🔗 Register Now and boost your pharmacy’s immune support strategies! https://lnkd.in/ghVq9uNb Looking forward to seeing you there! #immuneessentials #communitypharmacy #healthcareproviders #pharmacists #immuneboost #seasonalwellness #patientcare #fullscript #pharmacyeducation #independentpharmacy #liveqa
Join us on September 18th at 3:00 pm ET for “Wellness Prescribed: Immune Essentials for your Pharmacy Team and Patients,” a practical webinar tailored for pharmacists and healthcare providers. As the seasons change, so do the health needs of our communities, making immune support more crucial than ever. This webinar will guide you through the importance of bolstering immunity during these transitions and provide strategies for personalizing patient care with effective immune support protocols. Link to register: https://brnw.ch/21wMITn
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MBI welcomes the findings of the report The Hidden Waitlist: The Growing Follow-up Backlog, published today by Reform Think Tank, Sebastian Rees, Hashmath Hassan, which estimates that the total number of people currently waiting for follow-up appointments at acute Trusts in England stands at more than 11 million. “The report highlights the need for greater transparency of the follow-up backlog. Whilst the total size of the list will get headlines, the real question is: how many of the total are overdue? The gaps in information are concerning, but perhaps inevitable given the polarised focus on one set of patients over another. We fully support the report’s main recommendation to report on these patients regularly. It is only through full transparency of patient demand and visibility of all waiting list activity that hospitals and the NHS can properly inform patient safety, recovery planning and direct precious resource. With patients increasingly suffering negative outcomes from long waits or missed follow-up appointments, it’s essential that the NHS has the data to prioritise all of its patients, not just RTT. We need to understand the competing demands between these lists and focus on patient care and risk. Transparency and better data are the basis for doing this. The report raises some key policy issues in how elective care patients are being managed in different ways depending on which list they are on. The time has come for a policy intervention to ensure equity regardless of list type and an increased focus on diagnosis to minimise the patient risk we are currently carrying.” Read the new report from Reform: https://lnkd.in/e8rsFKQ8 Get MBI’s view on the hidden waitlist and what can be done to address it: https://lnkd.in/g5wzn62a
