The first of its kind in the industry, the ATI Registry is a unique milestone in rehabilitation care that will inform and direct evidence-based approaches and physical therapy treatment guidelines for years to come.
By collecting and analyzing a wide range of patient data, from functional outcomes to satisfaction scores, the ATI Registry is set to transform how we understand, deliver, and advance physical therapy treatments. As the first of its kind, this innovative tool not only enhances our ability to optimize patient care but also contributes valuable insights to the broader medical community, paving the way for more effective, personalized rehabilitation strategies.
The ATI Patient Outcomes Registry features a unique method for the collection of observational, epidemiologic, financial, and clinical data that supports innovative approaches to physical therapy, produces more rapid gains in knowledge, and improves broader awareness of patient outcomes. More than ever before, it provides a clear understanding of the rehabilitative process and how it can impact patients’ quality of life.
The primary goal of the Registry is to improve understanding of patient outcomes following rehabilitation to create actionable insights, set future vision, improve outcomes, and enable the realization of value more quickly. Through the sharing of data and intelligence, as well as through collaboration with other scientists, research institutions, and physicians, the Registry seeks to enhance patient care and clinical knowledge.
Fully HIPAA-compliant, the Registry has been registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, listed in the Registry of Patient Registries, and has been vetted by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Registry data is collected through ATI’s proprietary electronic medical record system and is synthetic to the clinical process. Data is gathered in real-time with patients and scores, which are immediately provided to treating therapists, as well as archived for Registry and scientific use. Registry reporting can be risk-adjusted to any variable collected, which yields robust insights to the medical community on idiopathic patient conditions. Risk-adjusted expectations are based on customizable aspects, for example, BMI, age, type(s) of co-morbidity, and more. Therefore, utilization – the amount of functional status change per visit – can be risk-adjusted, ultimately developing optimal numbers of visits per identified patient type.
The Registry features a large and growing dataset that is available for a wide variety of custom analyses, for example, cross-tabulation of functional outcome change scores with patient satisfaction datasets or Net Promoter Scores. Data can be analyzed by physician, payer referral source, or any combination thereof:
Numerous healthcare associations have taken leading roles in developing outcomes registries, including the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons. ATI is one of the first and largest collaborators with the growing American Physical Therapy Association’s Outcomes Registry. Collaboration between registries allows for more vigorous benchmarking opportunities. Some outcomes-based scientific literature is often contradictory or employs a great number of exclusionary criteria for scientific reasons that limit the generalizability to heterogeneous outpatient clinic populations, thus significant gaps in knowledge remain. The ATI Registry is not restricted by such methodological limitations.