Activity Overview

Activity Information

RISE Performance Improvement is a three-stage performance improvement activity by which evidence-based performance measures and quality improvement interventions / changes are used to help providers identify patient care areas for improvement and positively change their performance.

Current RISE registry users will be able to assess their current quality measure performance in their 2025 RISE dashboard, select measures in which they would like to improve performance, implement changes within their practice for 90 consecutive days to improve measure performance, and re-assess measure performance to see if and how their performance changed.

This activity is part of a series. See the activities in the series below.

Stage A: Quality Measure Assessment (Pre-assessment)

Stage B: 90 Day Intervention Implementation

Stage C: Quality Measure Re-Assessment & Performance Reflection (Post-assessment)

Target Audience 

Rheumatologists, physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, rheumatology interprofessionals, and healthcare providers who care for patients with rheumatic diseases; professionals interested or engaged in rheumatology research.

Learning Objectives 

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Assess their performance on quality measures and identify which measures need performance improvement
  • Identify and implement change(s) in their practice to improve their quality measure performance
  • Assess their quality measure performance after implementing the change(s) and summarize the outcome that resulted from implementing the change(s)

CME & MOC Information 

CME

ACCME Accreditation Statement

The American College of Rheumatology is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

See the ACR's CME Mission Statement. For more information, download the AMA PRA Booklet.

AMA Designation Statement

The American College of Rheumatology designates this Enduring Material PI CME Stage C activity for a maximum of 10.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

CME credit must be claimed by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.


MOC

MOC Recognition Statement: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 10.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

By completing this activity, you provide the ACR permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board. 

After submitting a reflective statement with key takeaways from the activity, MOC points will be applied for ABIM diplomates to the ABIM diplomate number and date of birth provided when you registered. Points are sent nightly to ACCME and then transferred to the ABIM Physician Portal. Please allow at least 48 hours for points to display in the portal.

 

MOC points must be claimed by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.




Faculty and Disclosures 

ACR Disclosure Statement 

It is the policy of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) to ensure that Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners and the public, the ACR requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ACR has implemented mechanisms prior to the planning and implementation of this CME activity to identify and mitigate all relevant financial relationships for all individuals in a position to control the content of this CME activity.

Nature of Financial Relationships

All individuals that participate in this activity and are able to change content or influence the content of the activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationships with ineligible companies including, but not limited to:

1.  Advisor or review panel member

2.  Consultant

3. Employee

4. Officer or Board Member

5. Grant/research support

6. Speaker/honoraria includes speaker’s bureau, symposia, and expert witness

7. Independent contractor

8. Executive role and/or ownership interest

9. Royalties and/or patent beneficiary

10. Intellectual property/patents

11. Stock options or bond holdings in a for-profit corporation or self-directed pension plan

12. Private investigator

13. Expert witness

14. Equity interest

15. Other: specify details

None: Has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

All participants that created and/or were able to influence the content and delivery of this activity reported the following disclosures. All of the relevant financial relationships listed have been mitigated. RISE Performance Improvement 2025 Financial Relationship Disclosures

Acknowledgement Commercial Support

No commercial support was provided for this activity.

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Educational Activity Policies

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