A patient registry is a list of patients in a practice sharing common characteristics, helping physicians organize care. Registries identify specific populations, track trends, and require proper maintenance for effective reporting and quality improvement. Building registries involves a gradual approach to care tracking, data entry, and extraction responsibilities.

1. Patient Registries
• What is a patient registry?
In it’s simplest form, a registry is a list of all
patients in a physician’s practice who share
some characteristic, such as gender, age
group, or disease state. By tracking like
characteristics, physicians can better
organize patient’s care.
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2. Patient Registries
• Identify specific populations
• Has flags at point of care
• Identifies patients for outreach
• Shows trends over periods of time
• Shows areas needing improvement
• Reporting capabilities
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3. Patient Registries
• WellCentive is an example of a registry
•Has built in guidelines
•Has reporting
•Meets Meaningful Use
• EMR’s can be used as registries
•You must be able to track
•You must be able to report
•Reporting is needed
• to identify populations
• for quality improvement
•Specific guidelines need to be followed for patient care
• All registries require proper maintenance
•Good data in=good data out
•Keep current populations
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4. Patient Registries
• Building registries take time
• Start simple
• Decide on what care you will track
• Build on that care as you go along
• Add a work flow in your office to identify who is going to
enter the data
• How are you going to use that data
•Who will be responsible for extracting it from the registry
• Allow yourself a reasonable amount of time before you put
your data to use
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