Healthcare Innovation February 22, 2024
David Raths

American College of Cardiology creates registry to allow ambulatory centers to compare their outcomes to similar procedures performed in the hospital outpatient setting

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) has developed a registry that offers data-driven insights on cardiac procedures performed in the ambulatory surgery setting.

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are healthcare facilities that provide same-day surgical care, including diagnostic and preventive procedures, outside a hospital setting for planned procedures on low-risk, stable patients.

The number of cardiac procedures being performed in ambulatory surgery centers has grown significantly in the last decade, leading ACC’s National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) to create the CV ASC Registry Suite to fit into the established workflow and allow these facilities to measure and...

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