The performance measurement coordinating council: a town meeting

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.