GTMRx Institute Voices of Change

GTMRx Institute
  • 5.0 (4)
  • HEALTH & FITNESS

Our goal is to ensure appropriate and personalized use of medication and gene therapies by advancing to a scientific, evidence-based and cost-effective decision-making process and a team-based, systematic approach to medication use.

Episodes

  1. Guest Thomas Mattras, MD, Office of Primary Care, U.S. Dept of Veteran’s Affairs

    10/29/2021

    Guest Thomas Mattras, MD, Office of Primary Care, U.S. Dept of Veteran’s Affairs

    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.

    32 min
  2. Guest Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

    09/28/2021

    Guest Georges C. Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

    HealthcareNOW Radio Podcast Network 262 followers262 1,781 tracks1,781 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.

    36 min
  3. Guest Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health

    08/24/2021

    Guest Cheryl Larson, president and CEO of the Midwest Business Group on Health

    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.

    35 min
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Our goal is to ensure appropriate and personalized use of medication and gene therapies by advancing to a scientific, evidence-based and cost-effective decision-making process and a team-based, systematic approach to medication use.

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