The results were very dramatic, with dozens of patients steadily improving over the next four years, Dr. Hippler said. The accomplishments of the OSF Medical Group in improving outcomes for diabetes patients demonstrate how directed CME activities and physicians dedicated to quality can help improve outcomes, CME experts said. Stimulated by new accreditation standards from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, an increasing number of CME providers and participating medical groups are designing similar tools to measure CME effectiveness. The school is part of a university-based CME medical school consortium that also includes Penn State University, Temple University and Jefferson Medical College. We all should be accountable to the public.
CME can help.
Most accredited CME providers meet this basic requirement by conducting physician satisfaction surveys or post-CME activity tests, Dr. Kopelow said. This is the first time we've said measuring is a compliance factor. The degree to which organizations move to exemplary performance depends on what they already have in place to measure change. We were seen as one more organization getting into quality improvement. Measuring effectiveness is very complex and labor intensive.