Reducing Health Disparities and Improving Diabetes Management - Spring 2024
Active project dates
June 8, 2024 – September 15, 2024.
This 3-month MOC improvement project is intended for our internal Primary Care clinicians.
Access code required to register.
Learning Objectives
Following this improvement project, participants will:
- Define the diabetes measure
- Analyze diabetes and vascular measures data to identify improvement opportunities
- Adopt strategies, tools and resources to support improved care and outcomes
- Report an increase in diabetes rates
- Report a decrease in disparity gap rates in race and/or payor
Steps to Earn and Claim CME Credit:
- Reflect on your current practice and practice data identifying barriers to improvement
- Watch Reducing Health Disparities and Improving Diabetes Management recording
- Throughout the project, review patient data and identify and apply strategies to reduce barriers
- Reflect on outcomes to determine whether the intervention strategies resulted in improvement. If no improvement occurred, reflect on potential reasons
- Complete the MOC - CME evaluation, attestation and credit verification in CMEcentral by November 22, 2024
Faculty:
Michael Stiffman, MD; Department Chair, Primary Care, HealthPartners
Planning Committee:
Julie Cashman, RN; Project Manager, Quality and Measures, Park Nicollet
Teri Middendorf; Project Manager, Quality and Measures, HealthPartners
Michael Stiffman, MD; Department Chair, Primary Care, HealthPartners
Ann Tarnowski; Program Manager, CME and Continuing Certification (MOC), Park Nicollet
The presenters and members of the planning committee have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
HealthPartners is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
HealthPartners Office of Continuing Medical Education designates this PI CME activity for a maximum of 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
MOC Board equivalent credits
This 3-month improvement project meets the following medical boards’ MOC Part IV* requirements for Physicians and Category 1 PI-CME credit.
*Family Medicine: Performance Improvement Activity (20 Points)
*Internal Medicine: Practice Assessment (30 Points)
*NCCPA: 30 PI-CME Credits
Available Credit
- 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 20.00 AttendanceThis program is designed to meet the Minnesota Board of Nursing’s requirements. It is the responsibility of each nurse to determine if the program meets the criteria for licensure or recertification in their discipline.
Select HealthPartners Login from the login page and use your network credentials.
For help setting up a new account, reference this tutorial.
Once you are logged in to your account, enter the access code and select Take Course.
If have already registered and are returning to the project, select Take Course
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