Currently identified MTM challenges include pharmacy workflow, the healthcare team, new tech, pharmacist remuneration, and patient engagement.
Fremont, CA: Medication therapy management (MTM), a suite of services aimed at improving patient treatment outcomes, focuses on medication usefulness, efficacy, safety, and adherence. MTM allows pharmacists to apply their knowledge and skills to potential drug concerns. Therefore, it is crucial to enhance outcomes to identify the issues affecting MTM services in pharmacy practice. In addition, there are numerous issues that pharmacists are now facing with MTM delivery.
MTM Challenges
Currently identified MTM challenges include pharmacy workflow, the healthcare team, new tech, pharmacist remuneration, and patient engagement.
Although the benefits of MTM have sparked great interest, the existence of formal systems and staffing frameworks supporting MTM in community pharmacies is limited. Pharmacies have debated whether MTM should be integrated into their usual dispensing workflow or provided as a separate service. Many community pharmacists in the United States have had difficulty adopting MTM into their present workflow, regardless of whether they are paid for it. These difficulties include a lack of time, a scarcity of competent support workers, a work overload or a lack of management assistance, and space constraints. Nevertheless, pharmacists willing to adjust have successfully added clinical services into their workflow. The association between pharmacist viewpoints and patient-care service provision warrants further investigation; additionally, pharmacist job descriptions usually lack details concerning pharmacists' rising role in MTM.
