Pharm2Pharm
The hospital-pharmacist-2-community-pharmacist care transition model that
reduces medication-related hospital admissions with a
264% return on investment in pharmacists
Annual healthcare spending in the US = $4.9 trillion,
31% of which is for hospital care, some of which is preventable
with pharmacists deployed to optimize medication regimens
across prescribers and across dispensing pharmacies for high risk patients.
Non-optimized medication regimens cause an estimated 275,689 deaths per year.
Pharm2Pharm model ROI details are published here.
Pharm2Pharm model drilldown results are published here.
More about Pharm2Pharm
On Pharm2Pharm: “The results are impressive…This should not be surprising, since pharmacists are experts in medications, and have expertise in evaluating, diagnosing and addressing medication-related problems, and in eliciting and understanding patient perspectives on medications. This latter skill set is critical for recognising how medications are actually used (or not used) in daily life, and for identifying and resolving barriers to safe, effective and goal-directed use.”
— Michael A Steinman, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCSF; quoted from his editorial: Reducing hospital admissions for adverse drug events through coordinated pharmacist care: learning from Hawai’i without a field trip
Pharm2Pharm health IT to support medication optimization published here
Pharm2Pharm CQI approach published here
Pharm2Pharm Standard Operating Procedures available here
Meet some of the pharmacists who launched Pharm2Pharm
See the impact of Pharm2Pharm and health IT on the pharmacists and their patients