Pharmacy Quality Improvement Best Practice Meeting

CTC-RI hosted its quarterly peer learning best practice sharing meeting in November. Neil Sakar, President & CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute, along with Rob McConeghy, Health Data Analyst, and Sarah Eltinge, Health Data Science Manager, led a discussion on hypertension and hospitalizations using data from the RI Health Information Exchange. The 7 practices working within systems of care also reported out on their data-driven pharmacy quality improvement performance plans aimed to reduce preventable hospitalizations and emergency department usage through team-based care. Each team is focusing on a particular AIM and presented on what they have learned from their project implementation and patient encounters. As teams embark on the next quarter of quality improvement, they will focus on how they want to risk-stratify their populations by looking at data such as age, gender, insurance, race, ethnicity, and place of residence.

The Pharmacy Quality Improvement Initiative is funded by UnitedHealthcare and the Rhode Island Department of Health, offered in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, with Kelley Doherty Sanzen, PharmD, PAHM, CDOE providing content expert pharmacy practice facilitation services for participating practices. (Recording) (Presentation)