October 2014 marks NCPIE’s 29th Annual “Talk About Your Medicines” Month. This year, we’ve changed the name from “Talk About Prescriptions” to the new “Talk About Your Medicines.” Our theme is “Let’s Get In Sync” Heart disease, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, depression, arthritis, cancer, asthma…
NCPIE is partnering with the American Pharmacists Association Foundation on the launch of a comprehensive consumer education campaign encouraging patients and caregivers to explore opportunities to engage with pharmacists providing ongoing medication counseling and medication synchronization (sync) services by making multiple medicine refills available on a designated time-frame. Medication synchronization is achieved by using a new patient care service called the Appointment Based Model (ABM) which is designed to improve patients’ adherence to medications and build efficiencies in pharmacy operations.
When utilizing ABM, Pharmacists and pharmacy staff are able to perform a regularly scheduled review of all medications each month, which provides the opportunity to identify therapeutic and adherence issues that patients may be encountering. Research is demonstrating that this model is helping to achieve better health outcomes due to improved adherence to their medicines, particularly for patients who are experiencing multiple chronic health conditions, seeing one or more doctors and/or other healthcare professionals and are therefore taking multiple medicines to manage these health conditions. All of this helps put the focus of the patient at the center of the “healthcare team.”
For more information visit http://www.talkaboutrx.org/