Don Berwick, Sachin Jain, and Michael Porter: how the public and private sectors could work together to advance the use of clinical registries

1. CMS and Private Health Plans: Creating payment models enabled by both the HITECH Act and the Affordable Care Act that may require and/or reward participation in registries.
2. Hospitals: Facilitating participation in registries by incorporating them into the clinical workflow for physicians & nurses; purchasing EHRs that facilitate & incorporate registry functionality.
3. Physicians & Medical Specialty Societies: Creating consensus on critical data elements around which data should be reported; promoting as activity that supports professionalism & quality improvement.
4. Medical Specialty and Licensure Boards: Incorporating participation in registries into maintenance of board certification and medical licensure.
5. Patients and Purchasers: Increasingly using data that is made available through registries to make health care purchasing decisions.

Source: Clinical Registries: The Opportunity For The Nation, Health Affairs, May 11th, 2011
Source URL: http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2011/05/11/clinical-registries...

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