CME360 to support ACCME’s Online Program & Activity Reporting System!

CECity is excited to announce that CME360 will support the ACCME’s Online Program & Activity Reporting System when it becomes available to accredited CME providers.  At this time, the ACCME has announced that this new system will be operational in January 2010.

A recent press release from the ACCME provides insight into the type of information that Providers will be required to submit in order to fulfill their annual reporting requirements.

CME360 will support the automated generation of reports in the necessary format for direct upload to the ACCME system. This format utilizes the Medbiquitous Medical Education Metrics (MEMS) XML standard.  As part of CECity’s participation in the Medbiquitous Consortium, we are a member of the MEMS Working Group and have played a key role in the development of this standard

The ACCME announcement also provides information as to how accredited CME providers should incorporate Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) from the National Library of Medicine as a mechanism to categorize their activities. To support this requirement, today CME360 users have access to robust Indexing functionality which supports the ability to link outcomes data and results to activity level information and resources. CME360 provides multiple levels of Indexing giving users access to many taxonomies, including but not limited to the following:

• Outcomes Reporting and Search (MeSH, Keywords to identify Competencies)
• ACCME Essentials
• ACGME Competencies
• Clinical Data (SNOMED)
• Claims Data (CPT, ICD-9)