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Changing healthcare policy will undoubtedly affect the healthcare environment in which providers function. The current Fee for Service reimbursement model will be replaced by Value-Based Purchasing, where higher quality and more efficient care will be emphasized. Because of this, large healthcare organizations and individual providers must adapt to incorporate performance outcomes into patient care. Here, we present a Continuing Medical Education (CME)-based initiative at the City of Hope National Cancer Center that we believe can serve as a model for using CME as a value added component to achieving such a goal.
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Grant number P30 CA033572 from the National Cancer Institute supported the project described. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the National Cancer Institute or NIH.
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Uemura, M., Morgan, R., Mendelsohn, M. et al. Enhancing Quality Improvements in Cancer Care Through CME Activities at a Nationally Recognized Cancer Center. J Canc Educ 28, 215–220 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-013-0467-z
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