RISE Registry Data Now Available for Research Purposes

Sharad Lakhanpal, MBBS, MD, is in private practice at Rheumatology Associates and a clinical professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, both in Dallas, where he has lived and worked since 1986. He is also the 80th president of the ACR (2016–17).

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Yazdany J, Bansback N, Clowse M, et al. (2016), Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness: A national informatics-enabled registry for quality improvement. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2016 Dec;68(12):1866–1873.
Simard JF, Oates JC, Yazdany J, et al. Systemic lupus erythematosus and undifferentiated connective tissue disease in the RISE Registry. Poster presented at 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. 2016 Nov 12–16; Washington, D.C.
Yazdany J, Myslinski R, Johansson T, Kazi S. Practices participating in the ACR’s Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) national registry show improvements in quality of care. Lecture presented at 2017 Annual European Congress of Rheumatology. 2017 Jun 14–17; Madrid, Spain.

The advent of quality-based healthcare, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), requires rheumatology professionals to demonstrate their practice is based on interventions supported by the best available evidence and that their practice, in turn, provides quality care. These requirements have increased the need for methods to measure and quantify…

Hundreds of rheumatology providers across the country are finalizing submissions for the first year of reporting under the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). According to a presentation at the 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting in San Diego, providers that participate in and submit through the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry are poised to perform…

Practice-based evidence, like that in the RISE registry, can be used to describe trends in patient care, look at comparative effectiveness of interventions and much more.

The ACR’s RISE registry offers answers on real-world experience to researchers.

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The RISE Registry Delivers Practice-Based Evidence to Rheumatologists

Providers Using RISE Have Advantage with 2017 MIPS Reporting

The RISE Registry: A Powerful Collaboration Tool for Clinicians & Researchers

Using RISE Data in Research

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