Exploring data helps us understand our world. Why something happened, how things are trending, and what constitutes a meaningful change.

The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) held their 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting with the theme of Covid-19 and Beyond: Digital Transformation of Healthcare, Research, and Education.

Medical specialty societies were founded on two key principles: knowledge sharing and the exchange of clinical insights to improve medical practice. That central task has evolved as societies use clinical data registries to serve diverse and important stakeholders who are also involved in ensuring optimal health outcomes.

In the alphabet soup of healthcare, often the initial drivers of large-scale initiatives are government reporting and regulatory requirements, like All Payer Claims Databases (APCD) and Health Information Exchanges (HIE). These requirements encourage interoperability and data sharing between stakeholders.

Clinical data registries are useful across many parts of healthcare. One of their most valuable purposes is post-market surveillance.