Diabetes Collaborative Registry provides seamless view of diabetes patients across specialties

The American College of Cardiology, in partnership with the American Diabetes Association, the American College of Physicians, and Joslin Diabetes Center, has launched the Diabetes Collaborative Registry, the first clinical registry aimed at tracking and improving the quality of diabetes and cardiometabolic care across the primary and specialty care continuum.

The Diabetes Collaborative Registry will allow for a longitudinal study of diabetes presentation, progression, management, and outcomes, even as patients receive treatment from multidisciplinary care teams. AstraZeneca is the registry's founding partner.

Participation in the registry is expected to yield long-term benefits for physicians, researchers, and patients. Physicians will be able to track adherence to performance measures, compare performance to national benchmarks, target quality improvement areas, and ultimately transform the quality of care provided to patients. Researchers will gain access to a repository of diabetes care data from various clinicians, and patients will benefit from their physicians' increased access to a central repository of diabetes data based on the latest science and research that can be used to tailor their care.

A press release about the registry is online.