2009 HOD Annual Meeting Educational Session
Extending Our Comfort Zone: Lessons on Establishing a Quality Improvement Culture
Monday, June 15, 2009
9 - 10 a.m.
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Chicago, IL
The AMA convenes the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (PCPI) to provide physicians with performance measures that will help achieve positive patient health outcomes and guide overall quality improvement efforts. Identifying successful approaches that are being used as part of broad quality improvement strategies is a high priority for the AMA and the PCPI. Physicians are leading efforts at the local and national levels to design and implement unique and innovative strategies that promote effective and coordinated systems of delivering health care services. The lessons learned from and the best practices used in these programs are encouraging physicians to adopt new and existing models for quality improvement collaboratives, define the role of performance measurement in facilitating improvement efforts, and lead efforts to bring about lasting changes across entire communities.
The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The AMA designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Presentations
Bernard M. Rosof, MD, MACP, Chair, PCPI
Overview of PCPI’s efforts to foster quality improvement collaboratives.
