ABSTRACT
Healthcare consolidation is creating opportunities for private physician practices to affiliate with a larger health system for improved quality of care delivery and subsequent contracting opportunities. One of the benefits is shared access to technology and expertise in population management and value-based care. Health systems can benefit from registries for emergency and hospital admissions for clinical purposes and quality reporting. These acute care setting registries can identify patients to drive clinical pathways, bundled payments, and clinical decision support. The wellness and prevention registries drive clinical outreach and interventions, so only alive, active patients are included based on encounter history. The pancreatic cancer prevention registry captures observational data in discrete data elements to facilitate a screening and monitoring regimen for the patients at risk and facilitate data contributions to larger research registries. Within a health system, registries are used to monitor that patients sharing a common chronic disease receive the standard of care defined in an evidence-based protocol.
