Clinical Data Registries

Clinical Data Registries

Veradigm offers two clinical data registries operated in association with the American College of Cardiology (ACC). The registries provide a longitudinal view of the presentation, progression, management and outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease and diabetes as they receive care and treatment from multidisciplinary care teams.

The PINNACLE Registry^® is cardiology’s largest outpatient quality improvement registry, capturing data on coronary artery disease, hypertension, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.

The Diabetes Collaborative Registry^® is the first clinical ambulatory registry aimed at tracking and improving the quality of diabetes and cardiometabolic care across the primary and specialty care continuum. This interdisciplinary effort is led by Veradigm and the American College of Cardiology in partnership with the American Diabetes Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and the Joslin Diabetes Center.

Both registries are currently enrolling practices across multiple specialties, specifically primary care, family care, internal medicine, endocrinology and cardiology.

Operated in Partnership with the ACC

Veradigm has partnered with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to advance the next generation of real-world research on behalf of cardiovascular disease and diabetes patients around the world. As part of this partnership, Veradigm operates the PINNACLE Registry and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry.

For more information about our partnership, watch our video: Veradigm and the ACC – Delivering Cardiovascular Information at the Point-of-Care.

Benefits of Registry Participation

The data included in the PINNACLE Registry and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry are collected from cardiologists, primary care physicians, endocrinologists, and other providers to provide an overview of patients with cardiovascular and/or cardiometabolic disease. This data is a valuable resource for longitudinal studies which can reveal new insights, enable better treatment and improve outcomes. Registry participants can access easy-to-interpret benchmark reports to facilitate coordinated care, prevention and treatment of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. By drilling down to the patient level metrics, clinicians can easily identify opportunities for improvement.

Participation in each of the registries has many advantages including:

• The ability to easily collect data on patients with:

• The PINNACLE Registry - coronary artery disease, hypertension, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation
• The Diabetes Collaborative Registry – diabetes type I and type II, prediabetes, and cardiometabolic care

• Easy-to-interpret online benchmark reports

• Help you validate the quality of care your practice provides and pinpoint opportunities for improvement

• Seamless participation in federal quality reporting programs. Including the Quality Payment Program and Medicaid Meaningful Use program*:

• Eligible clinicians and practices will be awarded full points for the Clinical Data Registry Reporting for Multiple Registry Engagement (PI PHCDRR 5) Measure if they participate in both the PINNACLE Registry and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry
• The PINNACLE Registry and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry are both considered specialized registries for the Modified Stage 2 Specialized Registry Reporting and Stage 3 Clinical Data Registry Reporting measure

As part of our partnership with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) participants also have:

• Access to the ACC’s NCDR suite of clinical toolkits to help implement best practice care and address common quality issues
• Opportunity to submit hypothesis-driven research requests based on analysis of ACC’s NCDR suite of data registries
• Ability to participate in continuing education programs sponsored by the ACC

Please note, that you do not need to be a member of the ACC to participate. To access ACC tools, register for a free account at https://cvquality.acc.org/Register.

* For more information on federal quality reporting program requirements, please consult the CMS website.

Reporting

The PINNACLE Registry and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry “Practice Executive Summary Quality Reports” allow practices to validate the quality of care provided, benchmark performance on a national and practice level, and identify opportunities to close gaps in care. To generate these reports, data for all relevant patient encounters must be collected and submitted via the data collection process.

View sample Practice Executive Summary Quality Report

Data Collection

Electronic data submission is required for registry participation. Data collection for the PINNACLE Registry and the Diabetes Collaborative Registry is managed via an arrangement with our technology partner FIGmd. Relevant registry data elements are captured through one of two secure HIPAA-compliant data collection methods.

Details on data collected for the Registries can be viewed on the PINNACLE Data Collection Form or the Diabetes Collaborative Registry Data Collection Form. Please note these forms are for illustration only – participants are not required to fill them out.

The full data dictionary for data extraction of both the PINNACLE and the Diabetes Collaborative registries can be found here.