title: Blood pressure kiosks for medication therapy management programs: business opportunity for pharmacists.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop an economic model based on the use of pharmacy-based blood pressure kiosks for case finding of remunerable medication therapy management (MTM) opportunities.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive, exploratory, nonexperimental study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ontario, Canada, between January 2010 and September 2011.
  
  
  METHODS
  More than 7.5 million blood pressure kiosk readings were taken from 341 pharmacies.
  
  
  METHODS
  A model was developed to estimate revenues achievable by using blood pressure kiosks for 1 month to identify a cohort of patients with blood pressure of 130/80 mm Hg or more and caring for those patients during 1 year.
  
  
  METHODS
  Revenue generated from MTM programs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pharmacies could generate an average of $12,270 (range $4,523-24,420) annually in revenue from billing for MTM services.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Blood pressure kiosks can be used to identify patients with elevated blood pressure who may benefit from reimbursable pharmacist cognitive services. Revenue can be reinvested to purchase automated dispensing technology or offset pharmacy technician costs to free pharmacists to provide pharmaceutical care. Improved patient outcomes, increased patient loyalty, and improved adherence are additional potential benefits.
authors.affiliation: EPICORE Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: Sherilyn K D
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Houle
authors.forename: Anderson W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Chuck
authors.forename: Ross T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Tsuyuki
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D015924:Blood Pressure Monitors; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003157:Community Pharmacy Services / Q000191:economics*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D016903:Drug Monitoring / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D018803:Models, Economic; D009864:Ontario; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms