Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative Launches Carotid Care Quality Champion Program

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Society for Vascular Surgery^® Vascular Quality Initiative^® (SVS VQI) clinical registry today announced the Carotid Care Quality Champion recognition program. The program honors healthcare organizations across the country dedicated to improving the safety and effectiveness of vascular care through participation in the VQI’s carotid artery stenting and carotid endarterectomy registries.

Today, select facilities across the country have been recognized as Carotid Care Quality Champions. These organizations engage the SVS VQI infrastructure to monitor the quality of care for their vascular patients and help them comply with the latest societal and governmental guidelines, including the change in carotid artery stenting coverage reflected in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) recent national coverage decision (NCD) 20.7.

As part of the CMS NCD 20.7 reimbursement modifications, the organization requires centers to establish a quality monitoring program and maintain institutional and physician standards. Registry participation provides a robust and user-friendly approach to CMS compliance. The SVS VQI carotid artery stent registry is the gold standard for developing a carotid quality assurance program. Registry participation enables centers to ensure the safety of their patients and adhere to the CMS coverage decision.

“We are proud to launch the Carotid Care Quality Champion Program to honor organizations across the country that are demonstrating their commitment to exceptional patient care by maintaining a robust quality program,” says Jens Eldrup-Jorgensen, MD, SVS PSO Medical Director. “By harnessing the power of data with benchmarked reports from over 900 centers, these centers have access to the best resources available for quality assurance and focused quality improvement efforts.”

Since the SVS VQI’s inception, clinical data gathered from participating centers has dramatically impacted patient care, leading to scientific discoveries that have changed the way in which care is delivered. Participating centers include academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, community hospitals and office-based labs.

VQI participation offers centers the ability to:

• Track provider and center performance and compare to national benchmarks
• Identify areas for quality improvement, including patient outcomes and length of stay
• Participate in a robust quality improvement program, with access to quality improvement toolkits, quality charters, webinars and one-on-one mentoring for members
• Network with other participating centers to review outcomes data, foster collaboration and spark further clinical innovation

SVS VQI registries are powered by the Fivos PATHWAYS^® platform, a secure, cloud-based solution for data collection and analysis. Using PATHWAYS, SVS VQI participating providers can utilize real-time reporting to benchmark performance, while device manufacturers can develop custom projects that leverage registry data to accelerate device development, evaluation or approval.

To learn more, visit https://www.vqi.org.

ABOUT SVS VQI

The Society for Vascular Surgery^® Vascular Quality Initiative^® (SVS VQI) is governed by the SVS Patient Safety Organization (SVS PSO), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Society for Vascular Surgery, which provides oversight of data sharing arrangements, key outcome and quality measure analyses, and dissemination of information to participating providers. SVS VQI comprises vascular surgeons, cardiac surgeons, general surgeons, cardiologists, radiologists and other specialists who perform vascular procedures collected in the VQI Registries, as well as Quality Improvement professionals, data managers and others dedicated to improving patient outcomes. Over 1,000 participating centers are divided into 18 regional quality groups who meet biannually to discuss initiatives for improving the quality of vascular care. SVS VQI is powered by the Fivos cloud-based registry platform. To learn more about SVS VQI, please visit www.vqi.org.