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Introducing the Arkansas (AR) Primary Care Registry*: The Nation’s First State-Based Primary Care Registry to Revolutionize Primary Care

*A collaboration between the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) PRIME Registry™ and the Arkansas Department of Health

We invite you to join the AR Primary Care Registry, a novel collaboration between the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) PRIME Registry™ and the Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) to develop a comprehensive, registry-based  System of Primary Care for solo, group, University-, hospital-, and Accountable Care Organization (ACO)-based practices, and Federally Qualified Health Centers in Arkansas. This collaboration is aimed at improving management for primary care patients with chronic and other conditions through participation in the State’s Clinical Performance Dashboard. Let us take a pivotal step towards enhancing the quality of care for your patients and returns on investment through improved performance in partnership with ABFM, the ADH, and other primary care partners statewide.

This collaboration focuses on three strategic areas to reduce clinical risk and improve patient outcomes through participation in the state clinical performance dashboard:

1. Comprehensive Performance Tracking and Monitoring

  • Track and monitor standardized clinical and demographic measures for primary care patients.
  • Identify baseline performance for an initial core set of measures listed below.
  • Identify and address gaps in care based on individual and collective performance.

  • Receive de-identified performance scorecards with state and regional benchmarks for comparison with other primary care practices across the state.

  • Receive technical support for registry operation from ABFM,

2. Enhanced Primary Care Management and Outcomes

  • Receive performance improvement/quality improvement (PI/QI) technical assistance from the ADH and partners, improve performance, and create networking opportunities with other peer family practices.

  • Implement and be recognized by the ADH for performance improvement through PI/QI strategies and projects.

  • Participate in regular networking meetings, learning opportunities and CMEs through ADH collaborations with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and other primary care organizations.

3. Maximized Use of Registry Tools

  • Utilize registry capabilities to identify and close gaps in care and enhance and sustain best clinical practices.

  • Identify and address health-related social needs HRSNs for your patients through registry tools to provide holistic care along with medical management.

Join Us in This Transformative Journey

Be part of the nation’s first state-wide, registry-based collaborative to improve the quality of care and clinical outcomes for patients, with the help of the state registry dashboard’s initial set of core clinical quality measures below, to not only meet, but exceed performance benchmarks. This core set of state dashboard measures will be expanded for other disease entities, including acute conditions and immunizations in the near future.

PRIME 36: Controlling High Blood Pressure
PRIME 39: Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention
PRIME 51: Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9%)
PRIME 54: Diabetes: Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL-c) Control (<100 mg/dl)
PRIME 80: Comprehensive diabetes care: Blood pressure control (<140/90 mm Hg)
PRIME 85: Hypertension: Improvement in Blood pressure
PRIME 87: Statin Therapy for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease
PRIME 90: Closing the referral loop: Receipt of Specialist Report

Ready to make a change?

Register today–click ENROLL below! The AR Primary Care Registry’s adoption of the PRIME Registry platform stewarded by ABFM Inc. makes  integration for PRIME Registry users easy. Current, previous and new PRIME Registry users can participate in the AR Primary Care Registry state clinical performance dashboard through an ABFM Inc. data use agreement for collaboration with the ADH and receive interactive support to collectively impact core and other measures.  Please contact Chelsea Henson at ckidd@theabfm.org for questions about registration and Sharada Sarah Adolph, MD, DrPH at sharada.adolph@arkansas.gov for questions about the AR Primary Care Registry program.