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Project ImPACT (Improve Persistence and Compliance with Therapy) is a process of care requiring a collaborative effort among three essential health care parties: the patient (or caregiver), the patient's physician, and the pharmacist.
As practice based research projects, Project ImPACT demonstrates pharmacist's drug therapy management skills can have a significant impact on the health outcomes of patients. |
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The Foundation has currently established the Project ImPACT care model in the following disease states:
The landmark results established in the Project ImPACT: Hyperlipidemia model has led the APhA Foundation to pursue further care models, as well as expand its practice research into the HealthMapRX.
How the Model Works
Project ImPACT utilizes a pragmatic approach that uses existing health care resources in ambulatory care pharmacy practice settings to improve patient outcomes related to drug therapy without excessive process redesign. The APhA Foundation believes that the Project ImPACT model has the potential to dramatically improve patient outcomes with drug therapy by empowering patients to become actively involved in their health care. Central to accomplishing these goals is the availability and the use of point care diagnostic tools that allow the pharmacist to evaluate therapy and communicate the results to both the patient and the prescriber. (View Project ImPACT: Hyperlipidemia results).
The Project ImPACT practice model is based upon the following mutual health care goals that include the desire to:
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Improve patient care
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Improve communication and feedback between
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patient and pharmacist
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pharmacist and physician
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physician and patient
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Increase the availability of measures to demonstrate improved outcomes (surrogate markers like compliance, risk reduction, etc.)
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Reduce total cost for care to the system over time (absolute endpoints)
Project ImPACT
