Veterans Health Administration ‘VIONE’ joins the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
YewMaker, the executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership (SMP), is announcing that the the USA based Veterans Health Administration affiliated VIONE Team has joined as a Collaborator.
The SMP is a not-for-profit private-public collaboration executing projects to make the use of medicines more sustainable and less wasteful.
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated Health Care System within the United States of America, with over 1,298 medical facilities, including 171 VA Medical Canters, and serving over 9 million Veterans in all 50 states and territories.
VIONE is a VHA Diffusion of Excellence supported medication optimisation and polypharmacy reduction program that has won many prestigious awards and has been adopted widely though the VHA.
The collaboration within the SMP will focus on sharing and scaling best practices to improve patient safety and sustainability, through planned optimization and cessation of Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIM). Our collaborations will also integrate measurable decarbonisation impacts with the proven clinical and cost benefits of medicines optimisation, education and shared decision making.
“We are excited to join the SMP and share sustainable best practices and lessons learned with a global network of collaborators committed to optimising medicines use to be safer and greener through prevention and reduction of drug related adverse effects and environmental protection respectively.”
“Ensuring people are taking only the medicines they need is better healthcare. It is safer for patients, and more cost-effective and carbon-effective for health systems. The success, practicality and scalability of VIONE is very impressive, and we are looking forward to collaborating with the Team.”
Posted 22/06/22
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Contacts:
YewMaker: comms@yewmaker.com
VIONE: vavione@va.gov
About the Sustainable Medicines Partnership
The SMP is a not-for-profit, private-public, multi-stakeholder collaboration. Through executing priority actions, the Sustainable Medicines Partnership aims to stop the avoidable waste of medicines and medicines packaging - reducing healthcare emissions and increasing health equity globally. Learn more at www.yewmaker.com/smp
About YewMaker
YewMaker builds science-based, scalable concepts and solutions that make healthcare more sustainable. YewMaker is the initiator and executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership. Learn more at www.yewmaker.com
About VIONE
VIONE is a medication optimization and polypharmacy reduction methodology used to reduce polypharmacy risk and improve patient safety, comfort, and medication compliance consistent with High Reliability Organizations (HRO). VIONE methodology is available in electronic health records and uses five (5) filters: Vital, Important, Optional, Not Indicated, and Every medication has an indication. In 6 years, VIONE methodology has been implemented by about 11,000 unique providers in 112 VA medical facility programs, impacting care of over 445,000 Veterans, deprescribing over 1 million Potentially Inappropriate Medications, achieving a cost avoidance of 94 million US dollars. Learn more at https://marketplace.va.gov/innovations/vione
