Who It's For
Benefits for Payer Networks
- Benchmarking for quality measurement-based care – Payer systems can compare performance of their providers within the system or with others outside the system
- Access to deidentified clinical data for internal research/quality improvement purposes
- Access quality matrices that the APA is continually developing
- Access to specialized sub-databases for addressing specific research/policy/clinical questions in the areas of mental health crises such as:
- AMNet (Addiction Medicine Network) – with Opioid Crisis
- COVID-19 or other pandemic subregistry*
- Be able to make policy decisions by rapidly accessing a large amount of data that represent the national/wider demographic
- Use as a network recruiting tool
Benefits for Your Practitioners
(Solo, Group, Hospital)
- MIPS and other regulatory reporting
- Possible bonus payments
- Fulfill MOC Part IV requirement
- Access to quality measurement-based care to achieve optimal patient outcomes
- Patient engagement through patient reported outcome measures
- Benchmarking of quality with clinicians ‘across the county’ and not just the parent institute
Benefits for Academic Institution
In addition to the benefits listed above the academic faculty can:
- Access quality patient level data for analytic research
- Use PsychPRO registry as data source or patient access source for NIH or other grant applications
- APA expert support for data acquisition, grant applications, IRB navigation as well as statistical review and help
- PsychPRO can be leveraged for practices-based research or practice based clinical trials
- Access to specialized sub-registry networks(e.g. AMNet) for research
- Access to specific patient populations for research across the nation (with appropriate permissions and consents)
- Access to quality measurement-based care platform for research designs
- Benchmarking of quality with clinicians ‘across the county’ and not just the parent institute
Benefits for Academic or practicing Sub-specialties such as Child Psychiatry
All benefits described above will be useful for all psychiatry subspecialty participants. In addition, the PsychPRO platform can be leveraged to:
- Create speciality specific sub-registry(similar to AMNet)
- Develop child specific quality measures
- Quality dashboards and benchmarking that is specifically relevant to child psychiatry
*This will also create a national platform for any future pandemics or other crises in mental health