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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Expansion

7. 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

8. 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.

9. ER/LA Opioid REMS CME Activities
Activity Types

10. Case Study 2
2015

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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

14. Thank you