Pharmacy QI Learning Collaborative Meeting

Pharmacy QI Learning Collaborative meeting

Improving Population Health / Reducing Low-Value Care in Primary Care through Professional Use of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Pro CGM) 

Six primary care practices recently completed Year 1 of a pharmacy-led, data-driven quality improvement (QI) initiative designed to improve care of patients with diabetes through implementation of Pro CGM. All primary care practices have successfully implemented this approach and in this session looked at which patients they weren’t serving based on data risk stratification. Pharmacists reported on interventions and shared their progress, lessons learned and patient stories. Subject matter experts Rahul Vanjani, MD from Amos House, and Travis Sherman from UnitedHealthcare facilitated a discussion on housing resources based on types of housing insecurity cases that pharmacists identified in managing patients with uncontrolled diabetes. In Year 2, the practices will be focusing on spread and sustainability. Special thanks to UnitedHealthcare and Rhode Island Department of Health who are providing the funding for this important quality improvement initiative.