Data Standards Provide a Focus for CME Initiatives Jennifer Dunleavy Senior Vice President for Business & Operations Edward Kennedy Director of Information & Technology

ACCME established in 1981 to oversee the national CME system Our mission is to be responsive to the needs of improving physician practice and public health ACCME’s governance is comprised of representatives nominated from our 7 member organizations

Value of Accredited CE ACCME sets the standards performs audits and surveys provides clinicians the reassurance that the education they’re participating in is: Balanced and evidence-based Designed for relevance: real needs and gaps Evaluated to guide safe, effective care Free of commercial influence ACCME sets the national standard for high quality continuing medical education Our role is to verify that accredited organizations—CME providers—meet these expectations To meet the expectations of the public and the house of medicine, ACCME ensures that educational activities are… Balanced & evidence based Based on practice-based educational needs Evaluated, and Independent of commercial influence

Physician Interactions Other Learner Interactions Scope of the Enterprise 2014 Reporting Year Physician Interactions Other Learner Interactions 13,599,687 11,587,518 The scope of the national CME system is significant This data is from our Annual Report, available on our website As there are only 800,000 physicians in the US, you can see that each physician has many interactions with CME each year A lot of data!! Activities Hours of Instruction 147,024 1,033,615 1,908 Accredited Providers

Creating PARS 2010 Activity Reporting Satisfies Multiple Requirements Year-end Reaccreditation Review Increased efficiency and flexibility Single reporting mechanism Always available for continuous use Common standards for communicating data MEMS 2010

Expansion

Case Study 1 FDA ER/LA Opioid REMS 2013 Project Commissioned by REMS Program Companies (RPC) ACCME as participant in MEMS 2.0 working group PARS Expansion to include REMS fields Mems provided a starting point and a context for the project. Enabled the working group to accomplish its goals more efficiently and in a faster timeframe that might have otherwise been possible. 2013

ER/LA Opioid REMS CME Activities As of April 2016 in ACCME’s PARS database, there were 96 providers reporting 647 REMS‐compliant ACCME accredited CME activities reaching ~168,000 learners.

ER/LA Opioid REMS CME Activities Activity Types

Case Study 2 2015

Case Study 2 2015 ABIM MOC Alignment of Activity Requirements Activity registration in PARS replaces individual activity review by ABIM MEMS Diplomate Participant Reporting through PARS to ABIM ActivityReport 2015

Accredited CME That Supports ABIM MOC 9/30/15 - 3/31/16 Accredited CME That Supports ABIM MOC Total Activities Registered 2,389 Total MOC Points Earned 2.6 million Unique Diplomates Earning Points 42,541 Difference b/t REMS and MOC projects speaks to the versatility and flexibility of the standards. Helped us be able to implement in a much faster timeframe that we imagined would be possible.

2016 Future State Collaboration with other specialty boards Further alignment of ACCME requirements with ABA and ABP Medical Knowledge (MOC Part 2) activity requirements Web Services for exchanging data between ACCME and boards 2016

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