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›› New Therapeutic Agents Marketed in the First Half of 2007

›› Featured Items - MTM Legal

›› Featured Items - Practice Site

›› 2006 Self-Care Practice Update– Proceedings from the Self-Care Institute

›› Featured Items - MTM Books

News you can use now

›› Practice benefits from partnership with academia

›› MTM profile: Pinnacle Award–winning Novant Health team

›› Educating patients: Consumer medical information – MTM Tip of the Month

›› Marketing Your MTM Services to Potential Payers - PowerPoint Presentation Restricted

›› Draft Clinical Services Provider Performance Appraisal Tool

›› Draft Superbill for MTM Services

›› Full Report of Project Destiny – The American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS), and the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) have joined together for a market changing initiative, Project Destiny. The initial phase of the project has succeeded in defining both the specific challenges facing community pharmacy and the opportunities it has to expand beyond a commoditized dispensing entity. This meets the core objective originally defined for the project: to develop a replicable, scalable, measurable, and economically viable future model for community pharmacy.

›› Promotional Flyer for Health Plans and Other Payers – MTM Core Elements

›› Promotional Flyer for Pharmacists – MTM Core Elements

›› Promotional Flyer for Other Health Care Professionals – MTM Core Elements

›› Bringing MTM to self-insured employers – - MTM Tip of the Month

›› Counseling Corner: Give complete, accurate information

›› Medicare "fix" a win for pharmacy

›› Measuring success in your MTM practice – - MTM Tip of the Month

›› MTM Digest – New! - Perspectives on MTM Service Implementation

›› Core Elements v.2 – New! Core Elements of a Medication Therapy Management Service version 2.0.

›› Driving change: Pharmacy Access Partnership links pharmacists with patients – Message delivered: Pharmacists have the knowledge, access, and skills to provide the care women need.

›› Target patient–pharmacist communication to improve medication adherence

›› Creating a Patient Care Process for MTM in Your Practice – A monograph from the Medication Therapy Management Services series.

›› Documenting Patient Care Services – A monograph from the Medication Therapy Management Services series.

›› Writing a Business Plan for a New Pharmacy Service – A monograph from the Dynamics of Pharmaceutical Care series.

›› Using Relationship Marketing to Expand Pharmacy Services – A monograph from the Dynamics of Pharmaceutical Care series.

›› Make your MTM practice more efficient

›› Presentations from the 2007 MTM Summit – Download presentations from the Medication Therapy Management Services in Community Pharmacy conference, held in September 2007 in Philadelphia, PA.

›› MTM for every patient, every day – Third-generation pharmacist Randy Myers brings community pharmacy innovation to rural Ohio.

›› Front-line practitioners offer keys to their success

›› Primer: Billing for services---Medicare and beyond

›› Implementing MTM: Getting your game plan together – - MTM Tip of the Month

›› Update for pharmacists: The 2007 American Diabetes Association standards of medical care in diabetes – 202-000-07-117-H01

›› MTM Self-Assessment Tool – In 10 minutes, find out how ready you are to provide MTM services!

›› Small town pharmacy takes MTM to the people – Tammy Bullock uses medication therapy management to build relationships.

›› Creating demand for patient services – - MTM Tip of the Month

›› Kroger Pharmacies Bring MTM to Your Community – Ouita Davis expands medication therapy management with employer’s support

MTM Tools

What is MTM? Medication therapy management is a partnership of the pharmacist, the patient or their caregiver, and other health professionals that promotes the safe and effective use of medications and helps patients achieve the targeted outcomes from medication therapy.

›› The basics of MTM - What it is, how it works, what's involved?
›› MTM Definition - As defined in 2004 by 11 national pharmacy organizations
›› SWOT Analysis for an MTM Practice - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
›› MTM Certificate Training Program
›› MTM CD-ROM - Build your knowledge, skills for MTM services, enhance your ability to learn/solve medication problems
›› MTM Monograph Series
›› Tools for Marketing MTM to Stakeholders - Coming Soon!