VOTING PARTICIPANTS
Voting Participants include public and private health insurance providers, medical associations, consumer groups, purchasers (including employer group representatives), and other healthcare quality collaboratives. Voting Participants are permitted to vote on CQMC workgroup and full collaborative recommendations as well as governance issues.
NON-VOTING PARTICIPANTS
Non-voting Participants are organizations who are ineligible to be Voting Participants based on the criteria for voting participants. Non-voting participants include, but are not limited to, physician groups, health systems, measure steward organizations, measure developers, EHR and other solutions providers, etc. Non-Voting Participants may serve as interested parties and may provide ideas, technical expertise, comments or information during CQMC workgroup meetings. Non-Voting Participants are not permitted to serve as a member of the Steering Committee or a co-chair of any workgroup, and they are not permitted to vote on any workgroup or full Collaborative recommendations.
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
Workgroups may invite guests who are expert in a particular clinical area, measure or implementation method to assist in their work. This does not convey participation in other workgroups or CQMC proceedings. No dues are required for participation as a Technical Expert.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY
Please review the CQMC Disclosure of Interest Policy (PDF) to learn about how the CQMC identifies potential conflict of interest. All potential Workgroup members must disclose any current and past activities when joining CQMC.
If your organization is interested in joining the Core Quality Measures Collaborative, please download and complete the application. Once completed, please send to cqmc@qualityforum.org.
