| The vision of Blue Thorn Inc. is to share best practices that align financial incentives for payers, providers, and patients with quality outcomes. This must be supported by robust integrated IT infrastructure and appropriate delivery system changes to migrate from an acute care approach based on rewards for volume of services and procedures to one that rewards improved outcomes and coordinated care for patients. This will enable systematic changes for continuous, coordinated, and proactive care while reducing total healthcare cost. For example, as a consultant with Medication Management Systems, Inc., I have partnered with the leaders that literally wrote the text book and defined the practice of pharmaceutical care. This pharmaceutical practice and robust interoperable IT platform which emerged from over 30 years of experience and research enables a systematic patient-centric (evidenced based) and standardized approach to medication use which is linked directly to achieving the clinical goals of therapy. This will inform outcomes based, clinical decision making in drug prescribing and dosing, comparative effectiveness of products, and patient subpopulation management. |