The ACR Working For You
The ACR is committed to helping you and your practice find an electronic registry system that will support population management and quality improvement while meeting increasing reporting demands for external quality and pay-for-performance programs. To provide for these activities, the ACR has developed the Rheumatology Clinical Registry (RCR), an electronic registry system designed to help you organize and maximize information. The RCR was developed by rheumatologists to meet the specific requirements of and support the unique needs of ACR members.
The RCR launched in the spring of 2009. The first release allowed users to enter and store patient data using direct upload or manual data entry via ACR-developed patient registration and encounter forms. The current version of the RCR supports documentation and reporting for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and American Board of Medicine maintenance of certification, provides practice/provider benchmarking reports, and helps support the practice of evidence-based medicine at the point of care. A portal for direct patient data entry into the RCR is in development and is expected to go live in the coming months.