In this episode, Dr. Thomas Mattras, the director of operations in the Office of Primary Care at the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs, joins GTMRx executive director, Katherine H. Capps, to talk about personalized, proactive, patient-centered care; how to encourage physicians to utilize clinical pharmacists in their practice; and shares real patient success stories from CMM services.

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In this episode, Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association and co-lead of the GTMRx National Taskforce Building Vaccine Confidence in the Health Neighborhood, joins us to discuss how we can overcome vaccine hesitancy and implement systems and processes to help navigate us out of this current, and future, pandemics. As part of the taskforce, he led their work in identifying key issues and offering guidance designed to build vaccine confidence in local communities. Their goal was, and still is, to inform the strategies to engage teams at the community level to work collaboratively and communicate effectively about vaccination during current and future pandemics by engaging care teams in the local community; coordinating with schools, religious organizations, employers, barbers, hairdressers, YMCAs and others; collaborating with local, state and federal agencies; and communicating to ensure an ongoing effective, efficient and engaged community response.

In this episode, Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH), a non-profit organization of over 130 mid to jumbo, self-funded, regional and multi-state, public and private employers, joins us to discuss how employers can work to get the medications right. After all, employers as health plan sponsors manage the health benefits for 49% of this country’s total population. They can leverage their contract authority to bring about change and create a better medication use process for all Americans.

In this episode Dr. Julie Ceno-England tells listeners how comprehensive medication management combined with pharmacogenomics, or PGx helped target the correct therapy for her patient Mike. PGx is the study of how a person’s genes affect the way they respond to drugs. When utilized as a tool during the service delivery process of care we call comprehensive medication management (CMM), it puts the patient at the center of care, allowing us to target correct therapies and deliver care that is precise and personalized. You will hear Mike's story before and after consulting Dr. England and his courageous battle to get his medications right.

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In this episode, we share some personal stories about what happens when medications are not optimized as well as work being done to get the medications right from Liz Helms, the president and CEO of the California Chronic Care Coalition (CCCC), an alliance of non profit, social consumer and provider organizations united to improve the health of Californians with chronic conditions or diseases. She shares with us the patient perspective in comprehensive medication management. After all, they are the ones who have the most to lose and gain from personalized and optimized medication use.

Liz Fowler, Executive Vice President for Programs at the Commonwealth Fund, former Vice President for Global Health Policy at Johnson & Johnson, and former special assistant to President Barack Obama on health care and economic policy at the National Economic Council, joins us to discuss health policy. Liz delves into the most prominent policy concerns, fractures in our current health care system, as well as problems that have been illuminated by the current pandemic such as mental health issues, loss of coverage as a result of mass unemployment and the enormous economic and practice impact on primary care.

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27 August 2020

Guest Dr. Paul Grundy; GTMRx President and Innovaccer by GTMRx Institute

Guest Amanda Brummel, Pharm.D.; Fairview Health Services by GTMRx Institute

Voices of Change podcasts originally aired on HealthcareNOW Radio

Voices of Change podcasts originally aired on HealthcareNOW Radio