Webinar: Innovative Registry Approaches

On Sept. 15, The Pew Charitable Trusts hosted a webinar highlighting a Pew-funded Avalere report, Innovative Approaches to Accessing, Extracting and Aggregating Electronic Health Data: Experiences From Five US Medical Device Registries.

The webinar examined key challenges that registries face in collecting critical data on the performance of medical devices, as well as innovative ways they have addressed these challenges.

Featured speakers included:

  • Kathleen Hewitt, vice president
    American College of Cardiology: National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI Registry
  • William L. Rich III, M.D., medical director of heath policy
    American Academy of Ophthalmology: IRIS Registry
  • Kristi Mitchell, M.P.H., senior vice president
    Avalere Health LLC
  • Josh Rising, M.D., director, healthcare programs
    The Pew Charitable Trusts
  • Angela Franklin, J.D., senior officer, drugs and medical devices
    The Pew Charitable Trusts
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