21st Century Intelligent Pharmacy
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The Center for Health Transformation (CHT) is launching the 21st Century Intelligent Pharmacy Project in an effort to accelerate the widespread adoption of best practices and innovative solutions in the field of pharmacy. The project will rely significantly on active and engaged CHT members and other nationally recognized leaders. In March 2009, CHT brought together a group of pharmacy leaders with diverse backgrounds to serve as the planning committee for the project |
 Wayne OliverProject Director |
This planning committee then identified several specific areas for additional investigation.
The goal of the project will be to define those issues, concepts and principles which will encompass a patient-centered pharmacy model which saves lives, improves care, creates value, empowers patients to make intelligent, informed decisions, enhances plan benefit design and saves money. The scope of the project will be comprehensive and will cover issues such as the importance of innovation, the role of pharmacists in a reformed health system, disease management and technological breakthroughs. The planning committee effectively reduced the number of targeted topics to a manageable list, and each of these topics are listed below. CHT’s 21st Century Intelligent Pharmacy Project will help to accelerate the widespread adoption of best practices and innovative solutions within the board world of pharmacy. The project will specifically focus on:
- Advancing patient safety;
- Increasing patient adherence or compliance with prescription drug therapy;
- Implementing innovative disease management programs like the Asheville Project;
- Encouraging innovation through research;
- Creating a patient-centered pharmacy care model;
- Accelerating new, emerging technology;
- Developing individual responsibility and patient engagement;
- Emphasizing wellness and prevention;
- Developing of continuity of care;
- Examining payment reform; and
- Improving communications among healthcare professionals.
The Project will bring together a diverse group of pharmacy leaders to serve as contributors and advisors for the Project. Our Project will define and report on the important issues, concepts and principles that save lives, improve pharmacy care, create value, empower patients and their caregivers, improve quality and save money. The project will produce a book or robust white paper published by CHT that will highlight those best practices and will provide extraordinary insight for the pharmacy profession, policy makers on the state and federal level, pharmacy educators, health insurers, PBMs and other stakeholders in the healthcare system that utilize pharmacist services and/or prescription medications.
