Self-paced
Expires: December 31, 2027
This course introduces the Performance Measurement and Quality Improvement concept and its role in sustaining a patient-centered medical home.
PCMH 101: Foundations - Mastering Performance Measurement and Quality Improvement (QI) In PCMH
This course introduces learners to performance measurement and quality improvement within the patient-centered medical home. Learners examine how practices collect, review, stratify, improve, and share performance data to support clinical quality, patient experience, access, resource stewardship, transparency, and value-based care.
What You Will Learn
At the conclusion of the webinar participants will be able to:
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Explain why performance measurement is essential to continuous quality improvement in a patient-centered medical home.
Describe how practices use baseline data, goals, improvement actions, and remeasurement to demonstrate progress.
Recognize how stratified data can reveal potential disparities and guide improvement efforts.
Identify the major types of measures practices monitor, including clinical quality, resource stewardship, access, and patient experience.Summarize ways practices share performance results with staff, patients, families, caregivers, and the public.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for any health care professional, health care decision maker or consultant interested in getting the inside perspective directly from expert faculty from NCQA in evaluating primary care practices and their ability to become Recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home.
Faculty
Authored by Cathy Beckner
Continuing Education
This course grants 0.0 required Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.
This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM, ANA CNE, ACPE activity.
* 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.
Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:
Faculty:
Cathy Beckner: None
Additional Planning Committee Members:
Crissy Crittenden: None
Ali Hulten Stroop: None
This program was developed in part by NCQA staff.
Here is the course outline:
1. Resources |
2. Recording |
3. Evaluation |
4. Attestation |
Completion
The following certificates are awarded when the course is completed:
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Certificate of Attendance |
