A Case Study with Dr. Philip Schauer & Dr. Amanda Vest of the Cleveland Clinic: Using a Clinical Registry to Track Outcomes & Quality Measures
Leaders at hospitals and health systems today are searching for clinical informatics solutions that will enable them to track quality measures and patient outcomes and conduct clinical research. Advances in technology have enabled a new generation of researchers and clinical leaders to aggregate, map, and harmonize the data they need from disparate sources to monitor clinical quality measures and patient outcomes through clinical registries.
One of the leaders in both clinical research and quality and outcome measurement is Dr. Philip Schauer, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute. For the past 4 years, Dr. Schauer has used a clinical registry to aggregate clinical data for outcomes tracking, monitoring of key clinical indicators, and conducting research studies at Cleveland Clinic’s Bariatric & Metabolic Institute.
Joining Dr. Schauer for this presentation will also be Dr. Amanda Vest, Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Vest has recently used a clinical registry to conduct a retrospective study on cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes for bariatric surgery patients at the Cleveland Clinic.
Another leader in the use of clinical registries for patient outcomes monitoring is Dr. Michael Cummens, Chief Medical Officer of Remedy Informatics. Dr. Cummens previously served as Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Marshfield Clinic and was an early adopter of clinical registries in the outpatient setting in the 1990s.
Join Dr. Schauer, Dr. Vest and Dr. Cummens for a case study discussion of their experience using clinical registries to track quality indicators, patient outcomes, and conduct clinical research.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basics of what a clinical registry is and how it can be used.
- See how a clinical registry enables tracking quality measures and patient outcomes.
- Identify best practices for connecting a clinical registry with other clinical information systems to aggregate, map and harmonize data for quality monitoring and clinical research purposes.
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Dr. Philip R. Schauer
Director
Cleveland Clinic Bariatric & Metabolic Institute
Philip R. Schauer, MD, is Director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric & Metabolic Institute (BMI), Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and Chief of Minimally Invasive General Surgery. As Director of the Bariatric & Metabolic Institute, Dr. Schauer has overseen efforts to track clinical quality indicators and track patient outcomes using registries and other clinical informatics systems.
Dr. Schauer's clinical interests include surgery for severe obesity, minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic), and gastrointestinal surgery. He has performed more than 5000 operations for severe obesity. His research interests include the pathophysiology of obesity and related diseases, physiologic effects of laparoscopic surgery on postoperative injury and recovery, and outcomes of laparoscopic management of obesity, gastrointestinal diseases, and hernias.
Dr. Schauer has authored more than 200 scientific papers, editorials, textbook chapters, abstracts, and video productions, and is editor of the textbook Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Schauer is principal investigator of the STAMPEDE trail comparing medical and surgical treatment of diabetes and an NIH-funded study evaluating surgical treatment of diabetes. Dr. Schauer published significant findings from the STAMPEDE trial in the New England Journal of Medicine in April 2012 on clinical outcomes of bariatric surgery for obese patients suffering from diabetes.
Dr. Amanda Vest
Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow
Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute
Amanda R. Vest, MBBS, MRCP, is a Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow at the Cleveland Clinic Heart & Vascular Institute.
She completed a residency in internal medicine at Boston University Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts where she served as Chief Medicine Resident. She completed her medical school training at the Imperial College School of Medicine in London, United Kingdom.
Her research interests include heart failure, cardiac transplantation, obesity and cardiovascular disease, and diabetes and cardiovascular disease, among others.
Dr. Michael Cummens
Chief Medical Officer
Remedy Informatics
Dr. Cummens has a wide range of experience as a physician and a bioinformaticist working in medical ontology development, medical informatics, and electronic health record development. Prior to joining Remedy, Dr. Cummens was the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Marshfield Clinic, a nationally recognized leader in quality health care delivery. He worked as an IT Consultant for EMR and clinical informatics at Silver Dragon Consulting from 2005¬-2008. He served as Senior Director of Medical Informatics at Ascension Healthcare in St. Louis in 2005, and prior to that he was a Medical Informaticist at Intelligent Medical Objects in Northbrook, IL.
Dr. Cummens holds a medical degree from the University of Wisconsin and has more than twenty years of clinical experience in primary care. As a family practitioner he was an early adopter of clinical data management software; he built and implemented his own EMR system including a patient registry. Dr. Cummens is board certified in Family Medicine and is a member of the AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians) and AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association).
