Performance Improvement (PI) CME Course: AMA STEPSForward: Removing Unnecessary EHR Inbox Messages

Activity ID

10460

Expires

February 7, 2026

Format Type

Performance Improvement (PI)

CME Credit

20

Fee

$0

CME Provider: American Medical Association

Description of CME Course

This activity is part of the Practice Efficiently: Save Hours Each Day in your Clinical Practice series. Each activity is designed to remove obstacles in your practice that interfere with patient care. In this activity, you will review and implement best practices to reduce the number of unnecessary EHR messages you receive. By applying these best practices, you will spend more uninterrupted time with patients and finish work at work.

In support of physicians’ board certification, this Performance Improvement – Continuing Medical Education (PI-CME) activity is designed to support medical practices quality improvement (QI) initiatives for the purpose of earning CME credits and MOC Part IV points. During this activity, the learner will actively work towards improving their practice by assessing their current practice, learning best practices and guidelines relevant to the content, implementing changes to their practice, and evaluating and reflecting on the changes they made to their practice.

This activity has been approved for MOC Part IV points by the following specialty boards:

• American Board of Anesthesiology

• American Board of Dermatology

• American Board of Emergency Medicine

• American Board of Family Medicine

• American Board of Internal Medicine

• American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics

• American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology

• American Board of Ophthalmology

• American Board of Otolaryngology

• American Board of Pathology

• American Board of Pediatrics

• American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

• American Board of Preventive Medicine

• American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

• American Board of Radiology

• American Board of Surgery

• American Board of Thoracic Surgery

• American Board of Urology

• National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants

Each activity is divided into separate assessment stages:

• Baseline measurement and intervention planning stage – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™ awarded upon completion.

• Interventions implementation stage. At least 7 days of intervention implementation is required – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™ awarded upon completion.

• Evaluation measurement and reflections – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™ awarded upon completion.

• Completion and submission of final quiz – 5 AMA PRA Category I Credits™ awarded upon completion.

Disclaimers

1. This activity is accredited by the American Medical Association.
2. This activity is free to AMA members.

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