ACCMEData ReportingPARSRelease Notes

Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) Release Notes

This is a brief, up-to-date summary of the latest improvements in PARS, along with links to relevant documentation for your reference. Since PARS is an online application, these updates are automatically available to all users, so you don’t need to download anything to access the newest version.

Date of Implementation

April 3, 2025

PARS & CME Passport

Upgraded all system packages and libraries to enhance security and mitigate potential vulnerabilities.

 

March 13, 2025

PARS

Close Activity

  • Users were experiencing a “Credit value cannot be less than the amount already submitted for individual learners” error that prevented them from closing their activities. The timing of the credit validation was adjusted to resolve this issue.

Aggregate Learner Counts

  • Fixed a bug that prevented a value of zero from saving consistently.

CME Passport

When a user clicks the MATE Act CME search, it now includes all relevant terms related to education on substance use disorders, effective treatment planning, pain management, and substance misuse.

Users are now notified via a pop-up box when leaving the CME Passport site to follow an accredited CME activity link.

 

January 2, 2025

PARS

2025 ABA MOCA Content Outline goes live.

Activity Search

  • Users can now filter activity searches by State Content Tag (SCT) information, and the new columns are included in the activity export.

Copy Activity

  • Fixed an issue that prevented users from changing the city and state of a Live Course activity.
  • Resolved an issue where invalid credit types were incorrectly showing as ‘0’ credits on activities.

Aggregate Learner Counts

  • Leaving the learner counts as blank now saves the value as 0.

Applied security improvements for our certifying board learner processing.

CME Passport

Clearer language to a user about how to update/correct their license information when no credits appear.

Modified physician profile to show the most current license.

Documentation Updates

 

October 16, 2024

PARS

ABP, ABPath extended the timeline for reporting learners’ credits – from 2 to 5 years.  

When adding state content tagging (SCT) for opioids, a tooltip was added to each of the specific content areas.

Technical framework upgrades were applied.

The text for the ‘Ready to Close’ notification has been updated to clearly explain the required action for providers.

API Processing

  • A fix has been applied for the 999/9999 bug and the Internal Server Error related to web services and certifying board connections.

CME Passport

Fixed an issue with being able to complete onboarding when an Alternate Name was specified.

 

August 14, 2024

PARS

Version 4.0 Webservices

  • Migration optional

Added State Content Tagging (SCT) for Opioids

  • Web form changes
  • Template updates
  • New search facet for Opioids, PARS and CME Passport

State content tagging is now visible in PARS and functional via the web form and supported in webservices. Please note, this feature is still evolving. All new elements are set to ‘no’ by default. We understand that this is a new feature, and are working with our communications team to make sure accredited providers know there is no immediate expectation for use. Tagging is optional.

New Logo for PARS/JA-PARS/ANCC Login

  • ACCME is now supporting ANCC’s data reporting system. A number of our providers overlap and this will allow an easier data reporting experience. An announcement of the new NARS system and how to login/use the system has been made by ANCC to its community: NARS IS LIVE. When the provider logs in, if they are accredited in both systems, they are able to toggle between their ACCME persona or their ANCC persona. Since the data is really specific to each profession/accreditor, there are no current plans to share the data across systems.

Documentation Updates

 

June 12, 2024

PARS

ABIM, ABS, ABOHNS, and ABTS extended the timeline for reporting learners’ credits – from 2 to 5 years.

Documentation Updates

 

April 17, 2024

PARS

New logo for PARS/JA-PARS Login

 

February 9, 2024

PARS

Final Phase PARS Credit Matching: Every Friday, a credit matching job will run, except for those with exemptions. 

 

January 2, 2024

PARS

2024 ABA MOCA Content Outline goes live.

ABPath change to language for Part IV activities: from “Improvement in Medical Practice (IMP)” to “Improvement in Health and Healthcare (IHCC)”.

Phase Three PARS Credit Matching: MOC/CC Credits for 1/1/2023 forward will be matched for ALL boards, except for those with exemptions.

Documentation Updates

 

December 14, 2023

PARS

American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) launched.

Documentation Updates

 

November 15, 2023

PARS

American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS) launched.

Phase Two PARS Credit Matching: MOC/CC Credits were matched for ABIM and ABP.

Added support for a limited set of special characters for XML. All others will be rejected. Contact dataservices@accme.org for more details.

Documentation Updates

 

August 31, 2023

PARS

Phase One PARS Credit Matching

  • Began creating CME credits for state licensing boards based on Maintenance of Certification/Continuing Certification (MOC/CC) credits previously reported for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). MOC/CC credits with completion dates between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2022, appeared as CME credits in the Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) in mid-August.

 

March 1, 2021

PARS

Added functionality to register CME activities to offer American Board of Surgery Continuous Certification points through web form, XML batch upload, and ACCME PARS web services.