Five for Friday September 12: Celebrating Success in Advancing Medication Use Quality
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PQA has published the 2025 PQA Annual Report, which documents progress towards our strategic plan, Blueprint PQA 2025, from September 2024 to August 2025. Alongside our members and stakeholders, our team continues to advance a series of important, enduring and mutually supporting goals. Together, we are innovating and expanding capacity to enable quality medication use in a digital, value-based health system.
PQA has a new scholarship opportunity for students at PQA member organizations to take free of charge the PQA Medication Use Quality online training program. This program provides 15 hours of education on the fundamentals of quality measurement and helps individuals master today’s quality landscape.
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Health outcomes can be influenced by many factors other than the health care services received, including patient-related characteristics that are both clinical (i.e., pre-existing conditions) and non-clinical (e.g., income, education, age, race or ethnicity). Careful evaluation of risk adjustment is an important consideration to ensure that organizations that care for disadvantaged populations are measured fairly.
Welcome to Five For Friday!
Welcome to Five For Friday!
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PQA has appointed 23 individuals to serve on a Measure Concept Advisory Group (MCAG) to help the organization to review and provide input on health plan measure concepts for future development. The group will provide guidance to prioritize areas of interest and potential measure concepts, evaluating key criteria such as:
This guest blog is one in a series by sponsors of the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting on improving care and reducing unnecessary costs across Medicaid populations. PQA does not endorse, recommend or favor any product, service or organization that is a sponsor.
PQA identified six objectives to advance medication therapy management (MTM) quality and measurement, highlighted in the first blog on PQA’s MTM initiative. One ongoing objective is to increase the patient-centeredness of MTM services in the Medicare Part D MTM program. Another is to conceptualize new MTM quality measures.
This guest blog is one in a series by sponsors of the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting on unlocking clinical revenue from within pharmacy workflow. PQA does not endorse, recommend or favor any product, service or organization that is a sponsor.
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The 2025 PQA Annual Meeting poster session featured 19 quality improvement and research projects. The session provided an opportunity for authors to showcase their work and for attendees to engage in insightful dialogue about healthcare quality.
PQA members and health care quality professionals gathered in Tampa, Fla., May 19-21, for the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting.
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PQA is a non-profit organization with 175 diverse members across healthcare. Our members include community and specialty pharmacy organizations, pharmacists and other healthcare providers, pharmacies, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, life sciences, technology vendors, government agencies, health information technology partners, researchers, accrediting organizations and academia.
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This guest blog is one in a series by sponsors of the 2025 PQA Annual Meeting on bridging payers and pharmacies to drive better care and lower costs. PQA does not endorse, recommend or favor any product, service or organization that is a sponsor.
The PQA Board of Directors represents a diverse group of thought leaders and experts in health care, who understand how medication optimization improves patient outcomes and supports a value-based care system. Their expertise helps PQA advance the safe and appropriate use of medicines. This blog is one in a series profiling PQA's Board members.