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A-08 Educational Session

Find out how three state medical societies are leading efforts to improve quality of patient care across their respective states through multi-stakeholder collaboratives during an educational session on Monday, Jun. 16, 2008, "State Medical Societies' Role in Advancing the Quality Agenda."

Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement

The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement provides performance measurement sets and other resources to help physicians in their efforts to improve the quality of patient care.

Collaborative for Performance Measure Integration with EHR Systems

The American Medical Association, the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Vendors Association are working together to develop a process for communicating measure definitions and data specifications to EHR vendors.

Quality of Care Program for Patient Safety

With its Making Strides in Safety® program, the AMA is helping physicians help patients by encouraging physician leadership and involvement in improving patient care. As a national leader in patient safety, the AMA diligently pursues initiatives that best serve the changing needs of America's physicians and patients.

Patient safety and quality tools

Tools to help improve quality of care and patient safety

Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment

The American Medical Association is establishing an Advisory Panel for its Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment to provide an opportunity for broader input from stakeholders on an ongoing basis.

Accreditation and collaboration

The AMA collaborates with several national accreditation organizations, including COLA, JCAHO and NCQA.

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Last updated:Apr 29, 2008
Content provided by: CQI Staff