By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
On this episode I talked to Sadé Osotimehin, an Advanced Practice Pharmacist at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy (@umsop). Sade found her passion in chemistry and developed her career around this following a path into pharmacy school and beyond.
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Sade discusses her journey into the field of pharmacy and her passion for chemistry and explains how she chose pharmacy as a way to help people while utilizing her knowledge and skills. After spending time in retail pharmacy and later taking on a role in retail clinical services, where she implemented various programs and services to improve patient care. Currently, Sade leads a telehealth center at the Center for Innovative Pharmacy Solutions at the University of Maryland.
We discuss the importance of pharmacists as clinical professionals who can contribute to medication therapy management and collaborate with other healthcare providers to deliver holistic care, especially as pharmacists can have closer relationships with patients, as they often have extended interactions during pharmacy visits.
Listen in to hear us discuss the way they have leveraged the accessibility of pharmacists and utilize them as a point of contact for patient care, particularly in managing chronic diseases with their integrated healthcare program and share the amazing results they have achieved with patients with chronic heart disease and lung disease being more likely to fill their prescriptions when enrolled in a Mobile Integrated Healthcare and Community Paramedicine (MIH-CP) program after hospital discharge according to a new study by the University of Maryland just published this month.
The patient’s prescription first-fill rates increased by nearly 20% for patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and 25% for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the first 30 days after enrollment. The six-month pilot also improved medication adherence by 8% to 14% in the 60 days after a pharmacist-led intervention.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
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