ACC/AHA/STS Statement on the Future of Registries and the Performance Measurement Enterprise A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Performance Measures and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

This document was commissioned to provide a perspective on clinical registries; to identify specific future opportunities for registries to comprise an informatics infrastructure for quality and efficiency measures that are used for accountability; and to propose a model for a future state characterized by an increasingly close inter-relationship between registries and performance measure development. Specifically, this statement focuses on how registries and performance measures are intertwined and how …