What is the value of self-populating disease registries in chronic disease management?
A. There are three parts to this answer. 1. Most NDP practices say there is tremendous value in such registries. Some of the practices that implemented them report a real difference in their daily routine; i.e., rather than just reacting to whatever walked through the door that day, they now have data to help plan a population-based, proactive approach. Practices say the registries with point of care reminders help them to promote needed, preventive care services to patients who come in for acute reasons. And finally, disease registries provide opportunities to more fully engage both medical assistants in team-based patient care through the development of standing orders based on registry results. 2. The NDP practices with registries say they found great value in such registries, but report that this value is greatly enhanced or diminished by the presence or absence of the self-populating feature. Our data show that while most NDP practices were eager to implement registries, fewer are
