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Florida Chapter of the American College of Cardiology
Selects LUMEDX Apollo Registry Solution
OAKLAND, CA – 9/17/03—The Florida
Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (FCACC), the nation’s
first state chapter of the prestigious American College of Cardiology,
announced that it has selected LUMEDX’s Apollo Application
Service Provider (ASP) registry solution. Apollo will enable Florida-based
outpatient cardiac laboratories to track outcomes and quality of
patient care, and participate in the National Cardiovascular Data
Registry (NCDR). NCDR is an important step for outpatient cath labs
to prove to the state and to insurance companies that their patients
have received quality care at the right cost.
Executive Director of the FCACC, Wil Mick, and FCACC Governor,
Richard A. Chazal, MD, have embarked on a quality improvement initiative
to encourage outpatient cath labs across Florida to participate
in NCDR. The preeminent cardiovascular data repository, NCDR collects
and measures outcomes from cardiovascular specialists, hospitals,
and cath labs across the country to provide national and peer group
comparisons.
To participate in NCDR, the FCACC needed to find a software solution
that would allow cath labs to collect patient data and outcomes,
and submit their results to NCDR. LUMEDX’s Apollo ASP registry
solution provided a quick-to-implement, straightforward, and fully
NCDR-certified registry service. With Apollo, physicians and clinicians
at cath labs fill out the information they need for NCDR in real-time,
while they are working on cases. They then upload the information
to LUMEDX’s server in Bellevue, Washington, and submit data
to NCDR as needed.
While there are many benefits to Apollo ASP registry solution,
most important is that it’s low cost enables a wide range
of clinics across the state to participate in national registries.
With Apollo, cath labs need not invest in their own server or equipment
on site or provide system maintenance, so overhead is kept to a
minimum. In addition, the software is accessed via the Internet,
so implementation is easy and quick. And the Apollo software has
a short learning curve, making it ideal for immediate registry participation.
The FCACC chose LUMEDX “based on a combination of belief
in the service provided and cost,” says Dr. Chazal. Prior
to their decision, the FCACC selection committee traveled to Saint
Vincent’s Medical Center in Pennsylvania to see LUMEDX’s
Apollo software in action. Wil Mick says he was “impressed
with their ability to not only to measure quality but also to increase
quality. To use benchmarks to motivate staff to take pride in quality.”
Collecting data and setting benchmarks is not only important to
ease state concerns. This data also allows doctors to make decisions
to improve quality of patient care in their own labs, based on best
practices across the country. Say’s Dr. Chazal, “Most
important is the ability of outpatient cath labs to benchmark themselves
to improve quality of care to individual patients.” Dr. Chazal
also believes participation will also help with insurance reimbursements
because cath labs “can ensure payers that care is being rendered
in an appropriate and high quality fashion.”
The FCACC encourages all 23 of Florida’s outpatient cath
labs participate in NCDR, and seeks to be a model for other states
to follow with their own quality of care initiatives.
ABOUT LUMEDX
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leader in cardiovascular information systems. As the No. 1 independent
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most proven, comprehensive package of clinical information tools,
cardiovascular products, and services to help medical institutions
enhance quality of patient care, reduce costs, streamline workflow,
increase patient volume and grow revenue. For more information,
visit www.lumedx.com.
ABOUT THE FLORIDA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
The American College of Cardiology is a professional society of
over 28,000 cardiovascular physicians and scientists nation and
worldwide. The FCACC was the nation’s first state chapter,
and actively monitors legislative and reimbursement issues on a
state level.
The Mission of the FCACC is to contribute to the prevention of
cardiovascular diseases and to ensure optimal quality for individuals
with such diseases. In carrying out these purposes the Chapter shall
function, in consultation with the leadership of the ACC, as a source
of advice to local and state governmental and professional organizations
concerning issues related to cardiovascular disease. The Chapter
shall, in the interests of patients, physicians, and the public
in general, maintain a high level of social consciousness and involvement
with socioeconomic factors and access to the highest possible quality
of cardiovascular health care. For more information, visit www.accfl.org.
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