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The
American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular
Data Registry™ (ACC-NCDR™) held its second Annual User
Group Meeting at the Rosen Plaza Hotel before the opening
of the Annual Scientific Session.
The
two-day meeting—designed for cardiovascular health
care professionals interested in measuring and improving
patient care—offered attendees an opportunity to
hear presentations covering key concepts in ensuring
data quality and consistency as well as how to use ACC-NCDR™
reports in quality assurance/quality improvement programs.
The presenters included ACC-NCDR™ physicians and staff,
statisticians, nurses, and administrators.
The
program opened Friday evening with a reception, where
attendees networked with fellow quality improvement
professionals from around the country and learned how
different facilities have implemented data- collection
strategies and improved patient care. Attendees also
browsed a variety of poster presentations describing
strategies for quality data collection as well as patient
outcome improvements resulting from ongoing outcomes
measurement.
The
meeting continued on Saturday with an all-day symposium,
"Improving Patient Care With Quality Data." Faculty
covered topics such as quality data collection, outcome
analysis, risk adjustment methodology, and techniques
for integrating data findings into daily operations.
ACC-certified
vendors were on hand throughout the meeting to demonstrate
clinical data software systems approved for the collection
of ACC-NCDR™ data. ACC 2001 attendees can visit ACC
Central (booth #3163) in the exhibit hall throughout
the Annual Scientific Session to learn more about ACC-NCDR™
initiatives and view software demonstrations by the
following ACC-NCDR™-certified vendors:
- CardioLogy
Software, LLC
- Cedaron
Medical, Inc.
- Cerner
Corporation
- CFP,
Inc.
- GE
Medical Systems Information Technologies
- Goodroe
Healthcare Solutions, LLC
- Heartbase
- Intelligent
Business Solutions
- LUMEDX
- Medical
Dynamics of S.C., Inc.
- Velos
Medical Informatics, Inc.
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From the ACC-NCDR
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Special
Report: Clinical Outcomes From the ACC-NCDR™: Tuesday;
4-5 p.m., Convention Center room 230B;
Multicenter Registries: What I've learned From
Our Registry That Has Changed Our Clinical Practice:
Wednesday; 8:30-10 a.m., Convention Center, Hall
F1; and
It's a Small World After All: Convergence of
Professional Society Databases from Europe and North
America: Wednesday; 12:15-1:45 p.m., Convention
Center room 106. |
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