Developed by urologists for urol­ogists, the AUA Quality (AQUA) Registry is a national Qualified Clinical Data Registry designed to measure, report, and improve health care quality and patient out­comes.

The AQUA Registry collects real-world data directly from your electronic health record system to help urologists improve patient di­agnosis and treatment outcomes. We are coming up on 10 years of experience and have millions of patient records from across the country. Additionally, our patients cover the whole spectrum of uro­logic care.

We recently conducted inter­views with current participants, as well as our physician leaders, to hear how the AQUA Registry has benefited their physicians and practices. We heard that in order to improve, “…you must measure first.” Dr. Ray Tan, AUA Data Re­search Program Chair, talks about how obtaining data from your institution can require a lot of work. He goes on to discuss how the AQUA Registry can be an important tool in helping you process your data and transform it into usable infor­mation. You will also hear Chris­ty Oxenrider, a current AQUA Registry participant, discuss how the AQUA Registry was a “game changer” for her practice. She uses the AQUA Registry to pull in data from various locations, and across different electronic health records, into a single digestible data feed.

Not only that, but you will hear the Secretary of the AUA Board of Directors, Dr. David Penson, talk about how the AQUA Registry is more than just a quality improve­ment tool. Anyone working in clinical trials knows how difficult it can be to identify eligible patients. Dr. Penson notes that the partner­ship between the AUA and Verana Health has made the AQUA Regis­try a cohort inception tool for clini­cal trials. In essence, Verana Health can help urologists identify which patients would be ideal candidates for a given trial.

Watch our video to hear these testimonials and more! Alternative­ly, if you are interested in learning more about the leading registry in urology, visit us at AUAnet.org/AQUA.