PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 10-Jun-2014 Contact: Nicole Napoli nnapoli@acc.org 202-375-6523 American College of Cardiology The American College of Cardiology, in partnership with the American Diabetes Association, the American College of Physicians and Joslin Diabetes Center, is launching the Diabetes Collaborative Registry, the first clinical registry aimed at tracking and improving the quality of diabetes and cardiometabolic care across the primary and specialty care continuum. Patients with diabetes often receive treatments across medical specialties for a multitude of related conditions. The Diabetes Collaborative Registry will allow for a longitudinal study of diabetes presentation, progression, management and outcomes, even as patients receive treatment from multidisciplinary care teams. The Diabetes Collaborative Registry will incorporate the growing number of patients with diabetes in the ACC's PINNACLE Registry, which is the nation's largest ambulatory cardiovascular registry. "Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among people with diabetes, and there is a clear need for cross-specialty management of diabetes patients," said American College of Cardiology President Patrick T. O'Gara, MD, FACC. "By consolidating patient data, this registry will allow primary care physicians and specialists who treat patients with diabetes to compare data and access real-time metrics on patients in all stages of the disease." Made possible … Continue reading →