How it works

CVAD Registry was intentionally designed to be fluid and evolving in order to provide current & relevant data for improving the vascular care specialty. Nurses, Physicians, Bedside Clinicians and Techs login and then record their procedural data. The registry collects that data, runs verification algorithms, secures it and makes it available for collaboration & comparing. This ongoing cycle of information allows for better patient outcomes, better communication, and national level benchmarks.

Nurses & Bedside Clinicians

Bedside Clinicians (Nurses, Respiratory Therapists and Techs)

“I love using PICC Registry!” "It is easy and very intuitive!" We hear this almost every day from one of our many users. For most clinicians, being able to track and monitor their patient outcomes is an important and fun part of providing care. Seeing real time charts and graphs about a specific patient enables nurses to gain a broader understanding of the patient’s progress and satisfaction. For the first time ever, viewing individual results and comparing them to your peers gives the clinician the ability to analyze your practice, look for areas of improvement and celebrate the successes!

Easy to Access
Use Laptops, Phones, IPads or from any internet connected device

Fast & Simple to Use
An intuitive interface makes entering your data simple and enjoyable and it only takes 2-3 minutes per procedure

Amazing Charts & Graphs
View, Print, Use in Presentations, Email & Share

Helpful Standardization
Accurate Definitions, consistent industry language and reinforcement of INS Standards

Improving Your Practice
Use individually collected data for performance reviews, raises and promotions.

Care and Maintenance Component
Utilize to monitor dressing changes, thrombosis, DVT, occlusions, patency

Infection Control Component
Build bridges with infection control team, monitor trends in PICCs and midlines without these getting lumped together with all infections from all lines in the institution. Locate problem areas quickly and efficiently.

Database is Interactive
Can receive key email alerts to teams when dressing changes and cap changes are needed, used to verify discharge dates or d/c dates, etc. and customizable to your team

3 Ways to Train
CVAD Registry is easy-to-use. We offer alternatives to training. Each option comes with a data dictionary and ongoing support.

1. Web-Based Education
CVAD Registry also offers personal and group training webinars. To learn more about presentation dates please use the "contact us" form.

2. Face-to-Face Visits
The clinical staff at CVAD Registry does offer personal training to each and every user. These visits are run for groups of 10 or more. To learn more about presentation dates please use the "contact us" form.

3. Video
For our members, we are creating a simple time conscious training video that allows you or your team to follow the entire process at your discretion. This presentation will walk you through the signup process, personal settings, data entry, viewing & printing reports and accessing national benchmark data. The presentation will last approximately 15 minutes and clearly demonstrates each CVAD Registry tool..

As a member, you will have access to our CVAD Registry Report System. This is where you can view, download or print standardized quality reports that will show how you and your team compare to overall hospital and national averages. These quality reports will enable you to track personal clinical progress, review patient data and outcomes, collaborate with your team and share information securely within your institution as needed.

TESTIMONIALS

"I am using the registry to present my data to hospital administration with hopes of adding more FTEs to our vascular access team. In addition, the physicians I work with are now so impressed with my success rates, they are going to train me to place IJ lines!”
- C.G. Illinois

“Little by little I’m beginning to understand the importance of using this. I’ve always thought I was doing a good job, now I know I am.”
– S.U., North Carolina

“I am addicted to this! My job has never offered me a way to compare my results to national averages or benchmarks. I love to look at my data after each placement to see how it changes.”
– T.S., Colorado

“My administrators were shocked and amazed that we actually collected data like this. They had no clue. Now we are invited to a meeting with the PRESIDENT of the hospital, along with the Vice President, the Vice President of Nursing and the Director of Nursing. They want us to present our data at the quality meetings!”
– S.P, Illinois

Physicians

Physicians rely on accurate and real-time information to make clinical decisions every day. There are numerous registries that collect patient level data and your institution is probably a part of at least one already!

Evidence-based medicine is critical to the decisions you make every day. As a physician within a participating institution, you will receive valuable access to reports regarding vascular access patients at your institution. Your entire PICC patient population can be viewed with a single mouse click. You will be able to access reports from your laptop, phone or wireless device. As a clinician involved in the vascular access specialty, you will be able to build and compare your practice to national trends, national standards and comparable institutions.

Improves Decision Making
Access to national CVAD data and specific patient data enable physician & clinician to build cases. Your lab will see fewer line patients and more extensive interventional cases.

Improves Efficiency & Workflow
Real time data empowers clinicians to make fast, critical and accurate decisions which helps keep patients at the bedside and out of the radiology/specials lab.

Real Time Reports
Access real-time critical information about patient care throughout every process

Web Based Platform
Access information from anywhere 24/7

HIPPA Compliant
Follows all governmental standards for patient care and security

Helpful Standardization
Useful consistent definitions, consistent industry language and reinforcement of Practice Standards

Publication Opportunities
CVADRegistry.com clinical personnel will absolutely work closely with our partners to provide critical data for potential publications.

3 Ways to Train
CVAD Registry is easy-to-use. We offer 3 alternatives to training. Each option comes with a data dictionary and ongoing support.

1. Web-Based Education
CVAD Registry also offers personal and group training webinars. To learn more about presentation dates please use the "contact us" form.

As a member, you will have access to our CVAD Data Report System. Where you can view, download or print customized trending patterns, personal comparisons, national averages and much more. These reports will enable you to track personal benchmarks, review patient data, collect data for reviews or promotion opportunities and share information securely within your private circles.

“We’ve discovered a number of very surprising results by using the registry. This tool has helped us become more efficient.”
- R. G. Chicago, IL

Hospitals

Whether you are a hospital administrator, a quality manager, a nurse executive, or an infection control professional, the CVAD Registry has valuable information for you and your teams. The CVAD Registry is a tool that your vascular access team or PICC team can use to make meaningful changes to your practice in order to create a better experience for your patients. Increases in clinical competence, patient outcomes and higher patient satisfaction scores will be seen immediately by participating in this real-time registry.

Review, Regulate and Reward. With the advent of Health IT upon us, CVADRegistry.com serves a unique need in your institution. There are over 1.5M Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICCs) placed each year across the US alone and there is no data repository for these procedures…until now.

Would you like to reduce the length of stay for your vascular access patients? Would you like to know which diagnosis need to be referred more quickly in order to have patients discharged more timely? The CVAD Registry can accomplish this for you and save your institution thousands of dollars in DRGs.

Electronic Health Records, Meaningful Use, Health IT, IPads, apps…all these are shaping the way hospitals and clinicians interact with their patients. Patient-centered care is at the heart of all of these changes. Did you know that over 90% of all hospitalized patients will receive some sort of vascular access device or IV line during their admission? Were you aware that 58% of all patients were dissatisfied with the level of line care and procedure they received? With CMS mandating reimbursement tied to patient satisfaction, it only makes sense to become a part of the CVAD Registry. You will be amazed at what this type of data can show you.

Savings
Data analysis provides opportunities to evaluate where earlier line placement will shorten length of stay and identify top diagnoses that cost the institution the most on DRGS. This will allow better patient identification to provide early assessment and line placement in.

Assessment
Reports indicate patient care and product performance

Publishing
Information gathered and learned can be incorporated into publishing efforts

Like Institution Reports
Comparisons to others with similar size and teams will provide more accurate view of statistics – only vascular access database to do this

No Limit on Users
Your entire team receives individual user credentials

Increased Patient Satisfaction
Patient scores now a component of reimbursement in 2011 which means all clinicians now held to higher standard of care. Fewer sticks and fewer IVs before PICC means better vessel care.

3 Ways to Train
CVAD Registry is easy-to-use. We offer alternatives to training. Each option comes with a data dictionary and ongoing support.

1. Web-Based Education
CVAD Registry also offers personal and group training webinars. To learn more about presentation dates please use the "contact us" form.

“Our entire clinical staff has found working with the registry quite insightful. The administration is also now making better decisions about vascular patient care and how to use the registry to move quality initiatives forward.”
- Anonymous