In the environment of accountable and value-based healthcare, registries are a straightforward tool for creating realistic views of clinical practices, patient outcomes, safety and comparative effectiveness and for supporting evidence-based medicine development and decision-making.
The Healthcare Intelligence Network’s most recent analysis of registries and their impact on healthcare quality, efficiency and cost, reveals that the management of chronic disease is a key driver in the use of registries.
E-survey responses provided by 105 healthcare organizations also found that one-third of existing registries are a component of an electronic health record (EHR); the top reason for not having implemented a registry is because respondents already use an alternative, such as an EHR.
Other survey highlights include:
- A disease- or condition-specific registry is the most popular type of registry, say 17 percent of respondents.
- Diabetes is the condition most frequently targeted by respondents’ registries (78 percent), followed by CHF and asthma (both reported at 59 percent).
- The most popular reason for using a registry is to measure quality and performance on key health outcomes, followed by disease management and the identification of high-risk patients.
- Almost two-thirds of respondents who are not using registries at this time say they will launch a registry within the next 12 months.
- A third of respondents include 20 percent or more of their population in registries.
- Chart audits are the most common sources from which registries draw data, say half of respondents.
- Engaging staff in registry use is the greatest challenge of implementing a patient registry, according to 29 percent of respondents.
Excerpted from: 38 Disease Management Metrics: Population Health Benchmarks to Drive Accountable Care
Tags: chronic disease, diabetes, Disease Management, EHR, electronic health record, patient registries, patient safety
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