The American Association of Neurological Surgeons created the NeuroPoint Alliance in 2008 as a platform for collecting, analyzing and reporting on nationwide clinical data from neurosurgical practices.
Here are five key points:
1. Intermountain Healthcare is participating in all Quality Outcomes Databases including lumbar, deformity, cervical and neurovascular.
2. The health system will also participate in the fifth Quality Outcomes Databases registry — tumor — once it’s active in 2018.
3. Four of the health system’s hospitals, encompassing 18 neurosurgeons and orthopedic spine surgeons, are undergoing training to submit data to the NeuroPoint Alliance databases.
4. Intermountain Healthcare will add two more hospitals in the coming years.
5. NeuroPoint Alliance’s QOD-Spine represents the largest spine surgery registry in North America.
“This partnership with QOD allows us to benchmark safety, cost and patient-reported outcomes locally between our various internal Intermountain Healthcare institutions where spine and cranial procedures are performed,” said Ben Fox, MD, medical director, neurosurgery, Intermountain Healthcare.
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