Axon Registry: Optimize Your Data to Improve Care

OPTIMIZE YOUR DATA TO IMPROVE CARE JOIN THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY’S AXON REGISTRY® A NEUROLOGY-SPECIFIC PATIENT REGISTRY THAT COLLECTS, REPORTS, AND ANALYZES REAL-WORLD ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (EHR) DATA

Are you looking to drive the quality-of-care conversation while sharing best practices to improve patient care?

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Participation in the Axon Registry allows you to collect realworld clinical data that helps you better negotiate higher reimbursement rates from private payers and CMS in riskbearing contracts. By joining a qualified clinical data registry, you get to participate and lead this important discussion on real clinical value vs. being told what metrics determine the best quality of care.

IMPLIFY CMS REPORTING: S Continual data download into the registry of patient EHR data related to neurologyspecific measures reduces administrative burden.

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I MPROVE TREATMENT OF NEUROLOGIC PATIENTS: Your data analyzed by the Axon Registry points to best practices in quality of care and patient outcomes.

DEMONSTRATE VALUE: Your data is evidence of your skills and can support higher reimbursement rates.

SOLO AND SMALL PRACTICES

WHAT CAN THE AXON REGISTRY DO FOR ME AND MY PRACTICE?

MAXIMIZE FINANCIAL POTENTIAL: Use data to improve practice inefficiencies and build on quality to provide the best possible patient care and maximize its financial potential.

INCREASE STATURE:

MAXIMIZE FINANCIAL POTENTIAL:

Demonstrate the value of your neurology department within your organization so you can secure the resources needed to fund growth.

Use data to improve department inefficiencies and build on quality to provide the best possible patient care and maximize its financial potential.

DELIVER TIMELY, ACCURATE INSIGHTS:

DEMONSTRATE VALUE:

Using neurology-specific data in the Axon Registry instead of generic, non-specialtyspecific measures provides better guidance to help your department improve patient outcomes and manage resources.

Your data is evidence of your skills and can support higher reimbursement rates.

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LARGE INSTITUTIONS

WHAT CAN THE AXON REGISTRY DO FOR ME AND MY INSTITUTION?

Are you always being asked to meet value-based care and quality improvement policy initiatives?

Join the Axon Registry to provide your physicians, clinical leaders, and administrators with valuable tools to easily use your data to meet these quality improvement initiatives and understand how neurology care is delivered in your hospital. For example, compare how your epilepsy patients are doing on valproic acid vs. lamotrigine.

CURATED, NORMALIZED DATA FOR REPORTING

• Data can be “pulled” or “pushed” • Data pull collection is daily and automatic, requiring no additional practice resources • Data push collection requires files to be sent via SFTP

DATA MAPPING DATA LOADING DATA AGGREGATION DATA VALIDATION DATA STANDARDIZATION DATA CLEANING

EHR DATA

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MIPS DASHBOARD QUALITY REPORTING RESEARCH INITIATIVES

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HOW IT WORKS

THE AAN HAS CONTRACTED WITH A THIRD-PARTY VENDOR TO COLLECT AND INTEGRATE DATA FROM VARIOUS EHRS (INCLUDING CERNER, EPIC, ALLSCRIPTS, ECW, AND MORE) INTO THE REGISTRY

ONBOARDING PROCESS

ONBOARDING PROCESS Once the Participation Agreement is executed, the following steps outline the implementation process, which can take 3 to 6 months months to complete

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SCHEDULE DISCOVERY MEETING AND DISCUSS PRACTICE REQUIREMENTS

COMPLETE TECHNICAL SURVEY AND INSTALL DATA LINK

SHARE PERFORMANCE RATES AND COMPLETE FINAL DATA VALIDATION

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When used in combination, these resources can help drive quality improvement projects at your practice or institution.

Dr. Baker is interested in finding out how often female patients with epilepsy receive guideline counseling at their practice. Stellar University Health Care's Neurology Department utilizes the Axon Registry to monitor performance rates for QPP #268 Counseling for Women with Epilepsy. Quinn, their administrator, provides monthly updates on performance rates identifying Dr. Sachs provides counseling more consistently than Dr. Baker. A healthy competition is sparked, encouraging quality improvement efforts and over time the practice performance rates improve.

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PRACTICE BENEFIT EXAMPLES

PRACTICE BENEFIT EXAMPLES The neurology group is interested in identifying opportunities to reduce unnecessary testing. The group begins tracking QPP #419 through Axon Registry. Quinn is able to easily identify individual patient records that trigger the numerator through the Axon dashboard. The group agrees to initiate a new electronic ordering set, reducing unnecessary imaging for headache as a result.

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Dr. Corkin is interested in confirming which of her patients with Parkinson's disease are experiencing depression. Dr. Harding would like to identify which of her patients with multiple sclerosis are likely to benefit from referral to psychiatry. The group has limited resources to initiate two separate research projects. Quinn recommends the group begin tracking depression screening and outcomes for all patients with existing Axon Registry measures. Through monitoring, the group is able to identify a subset of patients for additional outreach or clinical trials to alleviate comorbid symptoms.

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Data Over Time Informs Guidelines

Are you always being asked to meet value-based care and quality improvement policy initiatives? Join the Axon RegistryÂŽ to provide your physicians, clinical leaders, and administrators with valuable tools to easily use your data to meet these quality improvement initiatives and understand how neurology care is delivered in your institution.

PRACTICE BENEFIT EXAMPLES

ONBOARDING PROCESS

HOW IT WORKS:

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USE THE AXON REGISTRY WITH REAL-WORLD DATA TO PROCESS REPORTS AND BENCHMARK DATA, EMPOWERING YOUR PHYSICIANS TO UNDERSTAND HOW BEST PRACTICES CAN IMPROVE CARE TO PATIENTS. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT AAN.COM/AXON OR CONTACT REGISTRY@AAN.COM FREE TO US MEMBERS CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE