Pediatric Cardiologists Turn to Clinical Analytics

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A group of highly specialized healthcare providers has engaged an analytics firm and a systems integrator to build a national patient registry in hopes of speeding the development and adoption of best practices for treating critically ill patients with pediatric and congenital heart ailments.

The Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) will tap the expertise of ArborMetrix, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based vendor of analytics technology for acute and specialty care, and CardioAccess, Inc., which runs an international cardiology clinical outcomes database, to custom build the new national registry.

PC4 was formed in 2009 with the help of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, and includes experts in pediatric cardiac critical care, cardiac surgery, and cardiology from across the U.S. and Canada. PC4 aims to improve the quality of care by collecting data on clinical practice and outcomes, providing clinicians with timely performance feedback, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through analytics and collaborative learning.

The Boston Consulting Group reported earlier this year that disease-specific registries are an essential part of any value-based healthcare system.

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