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