Registry Data to Evaluate Patient Outcomes

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Registries have the potential to produce databases that are an important source of information regarding health care patterns, decision making and delivery. 

Registries, for example, can providie valuable insight into the safety and or effectiveness of an intervention, or the efficiency, timeliness, quality and patient centeredness of a health care system.

Improving Organizational Performance by Reducing Costs and Improving Patient Outcomes

Outcomes research seeks to understand the end results of particular health care practices and interventions. End results include effects that people experience and care about, such as change in the ability to function. In particular, for individuals with chronic conditions—where cure is not always possible—end results include quality of life as well as mortality.

By linking the care people get to the outcomes they experience, outcomes research has become the key to developing better ways to monitor and improve the quality of care.

The urgent need for outcomes research was highlighted in the early 1980s, when researchers discovered that "geography is destiny." Time and again, studies documented that medical practices as commonplace as hysterectomy and hernia repair were performed much more frequently in some areas than in others, even when there were no differences in the underlying rates of disease. Furthermore, there was often no information about the end results for the patients who received a particular procedure, and few comparative studies to show which interventions were most effective.

These findings challenged researchers, clinicians, and health systems leaders to develop new tools to assess the impact of health care services.

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Healthcare Organizations can use their Data Assets to improve Performance.

To compete effectively in today’s adverse economic environment, a healthcare organization must be able to access and manage data effectively across the enterprise; without the ability to drive insight and action, data is nothing but overhead. The more efficient an organization is at using data assets to create a clear strategy for action, the better positioned it will be to adapt swiftly to changes and prevent potential problems from escalating.