title: The performance measurement coordinating council: a town meeting.
abstract: A Town Meeting about the Performance Measurement Coordinating Council (PMCC) was held at the NAHQ Annual Educational Conference in September in Atlanta. Established in 1998, the PMCC is a collaboration of three national accrediting bodies--the American Medical Accreditation Program (AMAP), the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)--to coordinate performance measurement activities among the three organizations and across the healthcare system. Representing the Joint Commission was Dennis O'Leary, MD; representing AMAP was Yank Coble, MD; and representing NCQA was Joshua Seidman, MS BS. This article is a synopsis of that meeting, prepared from the actual transcript. The meeting began with each speaker's opening remarks, followed by questions from the audience.
authors.affiliation: George Washington University Medical Center.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Pelletier
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tackett
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards*; D000574:American Medical Association; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection; D006265:Health Care Coalitions; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States