It’s a New Health Care Environment

Chronic not episodic conditions are the biggest threats to population health, accounting for over 75% of total health care spending in the US. Chronic care improvement will dominate health care in the 21st Century.

Profiling and P4P are Transforming Health Care 

Public and private health care purchasers and plans are profiling and benchmarking physician practices and hospitals.  CMS and private payers are rapidly expanding value-based (P4P) reimbursement.

Medical Home & Chronic Care Models are Expanding

The American Academy of Family Physician’s medical home and chronic care improvement model is being widely embraced by physicians, payers and health plans. This offers the opportunity for an expanded role for prepared pharmacists working in health system, retail, and hospital care settings.

Pharmacists as Members of the Interdisciplinary Health Care Team

While pharmacists have always played key roles in physician consultation and patient education, the new model of care requires that pharmacists, like the other interdisciplinary team members, embrace  chronic care improvement strategies, evidence-based medical care, and the new generation of adherence and disease self-management support approaches.

MTM is the First Step Toward a New Pharmacist Practice Model

Medication therapy management (MTM) is an excellent framework for the new model of pharmacy practice. Successful pharmacists will expand their traditional roles of providing patient education and counseling about individual drugs, to more comprehensive medication therapy management (MTM) roles, featuring team consultation and adherence support services using evidence-based approaches such as motivational interviewing.

Pharmacist Continuing Education Approval

The Academy for Continued Healthcare Learning (ACHL) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. In order to receive credit, pharmacists must complete the activity requirements and evaluation at the conclusion of the program. This activity has been approved for a maximum of 4.0 CEU.  ACPE Universal Program Number (UPN): 396-000-09-002-H01-P Release Date: 02/01/09

 

Chronic Care Professional (CCP) Certification

Since 2004, the CCP certification program has prepared professionals and small and large interdisciplinary teams adapt and apply innovations and best practices in population health improvement, chronic care improvement, evidence-based medical care, patient partnering, behavior change facilitation and health promotion and coaching. Earn 40 hours of ACPE credit for the only nationally recognized interdisciplinary chronic care improvement development and certification program Learn more>>