A New Decade of the CME Provider

2010 CACME Annual Leadership Meeting

August 5-6, 2010
Golden Hotel & Table Mountain
Golden, CO

“Knowledge is not enough, it must be used; will is not enough, we also must act.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Planned Topics

A New Decade for the CME Provider

Jann Torrance Balmer, PhD, FACME
President, Alliance for Continuing Medical Education

There is a national initiative to apprehend CME in healthcare. Our own competence, performance and program outcomes are measured and evaluated, and are now more visible as we lead the way in cementing a foundation of evidence and high quality education standards. We will discuss where we have been and where we are going in the next decade.

The Changing World of CME: Update on ACCME & Regulatory Issues

Stephen M. Lewis, MA, CCMEP
President, Global Education Group
&
Suzette Tomaska, MBA
Associate Director of CME for Purdue Pharma

CME Providers have been rapidly changing policies and practices to address regulatory scrutiny while entering a new world in which CME advances, science, clinical practice, and patient outcomes. Learn where CME is headed, in terms of addressing educational needs, improving competencies, and securing funding and other resources for the benefit of all stakeholders.

The Changing World of CME: Maintenance of Certification (MOC)

Mellie Villahermosa Pouwels, MA, Program Director
Maintenance of Certification, ABMS

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has evolved their re-certification programs “to assure that the physician is committed to lifelong learning and competency in a specialty and/or subspecialty by requiring ongoing measurement of core competencies.” Physicians will need meet MOC requirements that include CME activities approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. During this event we will learn more about these requirements and their role in CME.

ACCME Lessons Learned: Non-Compliance to Best Practices

Annika Gill, MA, CCMEP
Managing Director, AOE Consulting

Standards for Commercial Support (SCS):
Implementation of the ACCME’s Updated Accreditation Criteria has identified common areas of non-compliance (~45% with SCS). Providers found in non-compliance, including the SCS, must follow a new ACCME Rapid Response process to re-establish its accreditation status. The process not only guides a provider back into compliance, but the process can facilitate a provider’s establishment of CME Best Practices.

Addressing non-compliance begins with assessment, followed by a provider’s plan for improvement, and then implementation of stated change to demonstrate performance in practice. Drawing from case studies, this session will provide participant examples of how organizations have successfully moved from non-compliance to better and best practices.

ACCME Lessons Learned: Non-Compliance to Best Practices

David Price, MD
Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente
National CME Program

Gaps in Practice and Analyzing Change:
The Updated Criteria was released in 2006, and it is reported that nearly 28% of providers are found out of compliance with “Professional Practice Gaps”, and 32% with “Gathering and Analyzing Change”.

How can we construct an action plan to more effectively and efficiently meet these two criteria? This facilitated work session will examine and establish procedures for providers to improve.

What are your dilemmas? Do you have a Best Practice to share? Assist us and bring both!

Linking the CME Continuum

Chris Larrison, BS
Healthcare Performance Consulting

Needs Assessment
Practice Gap
Educational Objectives
Desired Change
Impact
Practice
Patient Outcomes

Conference Registration

CACME Member - $220
Non-Members - $270

Conference Registration includes:

Conference attendance on August 5th and 6th
Thursday evening reception and hor d’oeuvres
Friday breakfast, refreshments, and lunch

Please download the Registration Form and send with Check payable to:

CACME
PO Box 103012
Denver, CO 80250

Or, you may make a payment via PayPal below.

Please Note:
CACME Member: An additional member discount will be provided to organization who send 7 or more staff – this entitles them to a discount of $20.00 per registration fee.

Non-members are welcome to become a member and take advantage of the member fee for registration.

Lodging Reservations

Please call the Golden Hotel at: 1-800-233-7214 to make reservations.

Reservation Group Code: Colorado Alliance for CME

Standard Room $139.00
Oversized Room $164.00
Suite Room $199.00

(Free Parking – No Resort Fee)

For a Virtual Tour of the Golden Hotel, visit: http://www.thegoldenhotel.com/photos/the-hotel.

For questions about the Annual Conference, please contact Donna Guadagnoli at: Donna.Guadagnoli@state.co.us.

If you would like to become a member or renew your CACME membership, click on the Membership Information page. For questions about Membership, please contact Megan Sitlington at: MSitlington@bch.org.

Registration Form

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