Webinar: Innovative Registry Approaches

Article October 6, 2015 Read time:

Projects: Medical Device Initiative

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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