Included with the Medical Home Subscription Plan

About this On Demand Training

Aligning Standardized Measurement

Join NCQA and CCE faculty for a discussion about how to prepare your PCMH Transform and sustain submissions. During this training, faculty will discuss: General timelines, Elective selection, Organizing  and demonstrating evidence to NCQA, PCMH model adoption, Making a timeline for gathering evidence, submissions and more.

What You Will Learn

• Outline two or more benefits of using standardized quality measures.
• Summarize current PCMH Recognition requirements and guidance for submitting standardized performance measures
• Develop a PCMH Recognition Performance Measure Strategy.
• List at least 3 resources available in the public domain to support performance measurement

Who Should Attend

• CCE's.
• Consultants.
• Primary Care Teams.
• Practice Managers. 
• Health Plans.
• Physicians.
• Nurses.
• PAs

Faculty

Bri Clifford, MPH, PCMH CCE

Bri Clifford is a Policy Manager in NCQA’s Recognition Programs Policy and Resources Department. On this team she supports recognition programs through the creation of resources, maintenance of programs and education of both internal and external stakeholders.

Before joining NCQA, she worked with the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Emergency Management. There she helped create a GIS mapping tool used to track patient movement to HHS staffed medical facilities in response to natural disasters. She also spent three years managing the clinical side of specialty practices and volunteering as an EMT in her community.

Bri holds a BS in Biology from Virginia Tech and an MPH in Epidemiology from George Mason University.

Emily Morden, MSW

Emily Morden is a Senior Health Care Analyst in the Performance Measurement Department at the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).

She is responsible for the development and maintenance of HEDIS measures primarily addressing geriatric and behavioral health care. Emily also works on efforts to develop and evaluate performance measures for the Medicare Advantage Part C Plan Rating program, working in collaboration and consultation with internal and external advisory panels in order to inform measure development.

Emily has over 10 years of experience working in the health care field.  Prior to coming to NCQA, Emily was an Associate Program Officer at the Institute of Medicine and worked on several studies examining the quality of health care services for military service members and veterans. Prior to this, Emily worked in clinical roles as a medical social worker for hospice programs and as a counselor in both adult and adolescent mental health treatment facilities.

Emily holds an M.S.W. degree from Portland State University and a B.A. in sociology from the University of Oregon.

Continuing Education

In support of improving patient care, the National Committee for Quality Assurance is jointly accredited for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide Interprofessional Continuing Education for the healthcare team. 

This educational activity is approved for: 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM and 1.0 nursing contact hours.*

This live course grants 2.0 required Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.

* Please note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of contact hours.

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.

For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution.  For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.