Press Releases
Results of Peer•Point’s Program on Managing Joint Pain Proves QI CME Works to Improve Performance and Patient Outcomes
Evanston, IL — The Peer•Point Medical Education Institute recently announced that for perhaps the first time in the United States outside of academia and the federal government, a CME program has been combined with a quality improvement initiative and shown successful results. Full press release
PeerPoint’s Rick Kennison Gives Presentations on QI/PI CME at
ACME National Conference
Evanston, IL — Rick Kennison, president and general manager of the PeerPoint Medical
Education Institute, a pre‐eminent deliverer of quality and performance improvement continuing
medical education (CME), recently gave multiple presentations to attendees of the ACME national
convention on the benefits of incorporating these components into CME programming to enhance
overall delivery of healthcare and patient outcomes. Full press release
Peer•Point Wins The Alliance of Continuing Medical Education Award for Outstanding Programming
Evanston, IL — What’s Best For My Patient, a CME initiative created by the PeerPoint
Medical Education Institute, LLC was recognized by the Alliance of Continuing Medical
Education (ACME) and given the 2009 Award for Most Outstanding Certified Enduring Material
CME Activity. Every year, the Alliance, through its award selection process, acknowledges
individuals, companies and activities that exemplify the best practices in the CME profession. Full press release
Gullapalli and Associates' and Peer•Point's Proven Proprietary Performance Improvement Methodology to Revolutionaize Continuing Medical Education
Utilization of collaboratively developed evidence-based, outcomes-focused educational
design and curriculum overcomes traditional PI activity barriers
New York City — November 10, 2008 — Gullapalli & Associates, LLC (G&A) and Peer·Point
Medical Education Institute, LLC (PeerPoint), today announced the successful implementation
of their proprietary performance improvement (PI)-based educational design and curriculum for
continuing medical education (CME) activities. Utilizing a collaborative, multi-faceted, multidisciplinary
approach, these PI initiatives enable healthcare providers to continuously assess
gaps between an ideal treatment standard and what is currently the level of their practice as
well as to evaluate improvement efforts to identify whether further interventions are needed. Full press release
PeerPoint Medical Education Institute Shifts Focus to PI/QI CME;
Launches New Website to Address Changes
Evanston, IL — PI/QI CME has typically not been effective in the past due to poor resource
allocation, inexperience or financial support, and often a lack of clear‐cut goals and buy‐in. In an effort
to change that, The PeerPoint Medical Education Institute has announced its commitment to improving
delivery of healthcare and patient outcomes by focusing primarily on PI/QI CME initiatives and has
launched its new website, www.peerpt.com, designed to address the change in direction to quality and
performance improvement. Full press release
Peer•Point Announces It Is Now an Accredited Provider for ANCC;
Able to Confer ANCC/CNE Credit to Nurses
Evanston, IL — Peer•Point Medical Education Institute announces it has been recognized
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and has received accreditation from the
organization enabling it to create programs that give ANCC/CNE credit to nurses. Full press release
Peer•Point Medical Education Institute Wins
Medical Marketing Association’s In-Awe Award for Excellence
"TeamCFCARE" recognized for power strategy, killer creative and measurable results
Evanston, IL — The Peer•Point Medical Education will be taking home a prestigious INAWE
award for excellence from the Medical Marketing Association’s award ceremony on
June 7 in San Francisco. The winning entry, "TeamCFCare," is a unified themed, multimedia
educational initiative. Full press release
Peer•Point Medical Education Institute Names Arthur Spalding Director of Business Development
Evanston, IL (April 2008) — The Peer•Point Medical Education Institute recently
announced that Arthur Spalding has joined the company as Director of Business
Development. Spalding will be responsible for expanding PeerPoint’s brand awareness
and will help to identify and establish new customers and partnerships with insurers,
associations, pharmaceutical companies and medical education consultants and providers. Full press release
Qicme and PeerPoint Team Up with Wyeth and Amgen to Produce a QI Program
That Helps Physicians and Nurses with the Diagnosis and Treatment of Joint Pain
Evanston IL — Joint pain, with its numerous and frequently hidden symptoms,
accounts for a large percentage of doctor visits each year. To relieve the burden on time
and resources many primary care practices face attempting to treat patients with joint
pain, Qicme LLC and the PeerPoint Medical Education Institute, LLC have teamed up
with Wyeth and Amgen to create a QI-based CME program designed to increase the
efficiency of the practice flow as it helps improve outcomes for their patients that suffer
from joint pain. Full press release
PeerPoint Medical Education Institute’s Joint Pain Program Proves Successful;
Helps Physicians and Nurses with the Diagnosis and Treatment of Joint Pain
Evanston, IL — Primary care physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals
who treat individuals with joint pain may find it easier to provide better outcomes for
their patients thanks to a QI-based CME program the PeerPoint Medical Education
Institute has created with Wyeth and Amgen. Designed to increase the efficiency of the
practice flow, the program, an interactive web conference, has proven successful in
assisting healthcare professionals diagnose, manage and treat joint pain. Full press release
PeerPoint Medical Education Institute Promotes
Janine Scotti to Director of Educational Services
Evanston, IL — Janine A. Scotti, MBA has been promoted to Director of Educational
Services Peer•Point Medical Education Institute recently announced. In her new position,
she will be responsible for overseeing the company’s accreditation department, project
management and will be instrumental in helping to forge the company’s new path into
quality improvement. Full press release
PeerPoint Medical Education Institute and Gullapalli and Associates Collaborate to Advance the
Quality of Healthcare Through Ground-Breaking Medical Education Activities
Evanston, IL — The PeerPoint Medical Education Institute LLC, an accredited provider of continuing
medical education, together with Gullapalli and Associates, a firm specializing in the development of
collaborative educational strategies for healthcare providers, announce the formation of a partnership to
improve the overall quality of healthcare through the development of unique and innovative CME
activities. The partnership combines Peer•Point’s quality improvement (QI) methodologies with G&A’s
expertise in developing educational strategies with key stakeholders--medical societies, associations,
patient advocacy groups, academic centers of excellence and research centers—to provide more
effective educational programs. Full press release
Articles
PI Solving the Equation
Rick Kennison, PeerPoint Medical Education Institute, LLC,
discusses the evolving role of performance improvement (PI)
in healthcare delivery. Full article
2009 Alliance Award for Most Outstanding Certified
"In recognition of an organization responsible for innovation and
excellence in the design, educational format, and instructional
delivery of a certified CME activity." What’s Best for My Patient: Using Evidence to Design the Right Team, the Right
Treatment, at the Right Time for the Management of Colon and Rectal Cancers. Full article
Better CME at a price
Many continuing medical education providers are turning to quality-improvement and performance CME to increase value and eliminate bias, but such activities come at a great expense. Full article
How PCP Education Can Impact Gout Management
The Gout Essentials
Arthur L. Weaver, MD,* Michelle A. Cheh, PhD, and Richard H. Kennison, DPM, MBA
Gout, a rheumatologic disorder, affects approximately 5.1
million people in the United States, and its prevalence
seems to be increasing.1–3 Most patients visit a primary care
physician (PCP) for gout disease management; however,
there are a number of challenges to diagnosing and treating
gout in the PCP setting. Newer investigational agents for gout
that are on the horizon have prompted rheumatologists to
consider how they can share current information to improve
gout management with PCP colleagues in a way that can be
practically implemented in their clinical setting. To make this
information practical, an understanding of some of the educational
gaps and lingering misperceptions about gout need to
be appreciated. Leading rheumatologists spent time talking
with PCP colleagues at a series of educational meetings and
collected survey data to validate educational needs. With this
appreciation of PCP challenges, key information on best
practices was developed. Full article
Continuing Education Stepping Up To The Plate
For what seems like years, I have been attending continuing medical education (CME) after CME meeting, reading article after article, listening to everyone qualified to have an opinion sharing his or her view. The topics and themes have remained the same. Quality improvement (QI) or performance improvement (PI) were the foundation; the theme was that everyone needed to adopt QI or PI.
Full article
A New Approach for Medical Education
Since the mid-1990’s, major movements to increase the quality
of healthcare delivered to patients in our country have
continually encountered one major roadblock: healthcare
providers are simply not educated as to what factors and
components constitute performance inmprovement (PI). Full article