About this Training

PCA 101: Foundations - Primary Care Advancement for Data Management and Exchange

This course provides an awareness-level orientation to data management and exchange within NCQA’s Primary Care Advancement program. Learners are introduced to the basic ways primary care organizations collect, use, share and protect information to support proactive, coordinated and data-informed care.

The course focuses on shared language, common data sources, basic data quality concepts, information exchange, closed-loop communication and the role of data in team-based workflows. It does not teach learners how to build technical interfaces, configure electronic health record systems, write data specifications or implement advanced interoperability solutions.

What You Will Learn

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define data management and data exchange in the context of Primary Care Advancement.

• Identify common types of information primary care teams use to support patient care, quality improvement and reporting.

• Recognize basic data quality concepts, including completeness, accuracy, timeliness and consistency.

• Describe how information exchange supports care coordination, referrals, transitions and closed-loop follow-up.

• Distinguish awareness-level data concepts from advanced technical implementation activities.

Who Should Attend

• Primary Care Leaders, administrators and practice teams new to Primary Care Advancement.
• Quality, Population health, care management, finance and operations staff supporting value-based care performance.
• Consultants, coaches and implementation teams supporting primary care organizations.

Continuing Education

This  course grants 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.
This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM, 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:

Planning Committee Member:

Crissy Crittenden: None
Jeff Sitko: None
Faith Jasso: None
Bri Clifford: None
Amy Awate: None
Kelly Cavin: None

This program was developed in part by NCQA staff.

This program received no commercial support.