As the health care field continues to evolve, NCDR is committed to helping facilities measure and improve the quality of care they provide with the most relevant data elements and metrics, actionable insights and more.

"NCDR recently completed a three-year optimization plan that led to the development of a new Strategic Plan that will guide us for the next five years," said Steven M. Bradley, MD, FACC, chair of ACC's NCDR Oversight Committee. "A major highlight of that optimization was a significant improvement in data visualization from the registries that supports greater insights and quality improvement initiatives."

This past year, NCDR launched enhanced dashboards for all registries, providing robust visualizations and a faster, more dynamic data customer experience to support facilities, health systems and clinical care teams in their goal of optimizing cardiovascular patient care and outcomes.

New features include streamlined navigation, bookmarking custom views and the ability to export to PowerPoint. The release of these dashboards provides the NCDR community with a modern dashboard product that is intuitive, flexible and actionable. New additions to the NCDR family of registries have also come about over the past year, spurred by up-and-coming trends in the cardiovascular care landscape.

In February, the ACC also unveiled the CV ASC Registry Suite – NCDR's newest registry. As the number of cardiac procedures being performed in ambulatory surgical centers (ASCs) continues to grow, with more minimally invasive cardiac procedures on stable patients performed outside the hospital setting, there is an increasing need for these facilities to be able to measure and compare their patient care and outcomes to similar procedures performed in the hospital outpatient setting.

The CV ASC Registry Suite offers data-driven insights on cardiac procedures performed in the ambulatory surgery setting through a first-of-its-kind dashboard. Registry participants have access to benchmark data from ACC's CathPCI Registry and EP Device Implant Registry for elective patients, in addition to benchmarks and comparisons, including procedures data, hospitalization rates, emergent transfer rates, medications, efficiency rates, adverse events and bleeding events performed only in ASCs.

New developments for NCDR are not ceasing anytime soon. The AFib Ablation Registry recently launched new features, including an enhanced data collection tool offering the option of highly sought after follow-up data, the ability to track cutting-edge technologies and metrics to keep participating sites aligned with the latest guidelines, which now recommend ablation as first-line therapy.

Visit CVQuality.ACC.org/Power to learn more.

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