For step four, let's do a deeper dive into the data collection for those participants using the ACC online data collection tool. If you've chosen to use a third-party vendor for data collection and submission to our data warehouse, your data collection tool will not look like this and you'll need separate tutorials from your third-party vendor. The ACC online data collection tool is an electronic tool used to collect and send data to the NCDR data warehouse managed by the American College of Cardiology. All NCDR registries come complete with the ACC online data collection tool no matter where you are around the globe. There's no extra fee included and participants can begin data entry on day one. As you begin data entry for your patients, you will first have to create a demographics account for each individual patient. These demographics are interoperable with all NCDR registries and will only have to be entered one time. If your patient comes back to your facility for a subsequent visit, please use the same demographic information and simply add a visit to the existing patient demographics. You will see in this example that the procedure information tab has two fields, both requiring information from the operator performing a specific procedure. This question may be located on different pages throughout the NCDR registry products, but the process for answering this is the same regardless of the location of this type of question. When answering operator questions within the registry, click on the please select drop down box. This will initiate a drop down box of your operating physicians. Simply choose which physician performed each specific procedure and the information will capture and save to the patient form. Here's a very important question. How did the operator information get into a drop down list? And here's the answer to that question. Each NCDR registry maintains a master list of operating physicians, which are provided by the registry site manager, and they're unique to your facility. The purpose of this list is to ensure accurate operator information is consistently entered into the registry. So where is this information stored within the registry? To access the operator or provider maintenance, please navigate to data at the left navigation bar, note the provider maintenance tab and click here. Your provider maintenance page will appear and this is where you are able to create a drop down listing for all of your operators. Once an operator name, NPI number, type, active status and registry has been provided, the operator will be added to the database. After the profile for each operator is created, there's no other requirement. This operator will be available in all drop down listings. Here are a few more examples of when this drop down list of operators is necessary to complete a patient data form. Search provider identification number, admitting provider identification number, attending provider identification number, diagnostic cath operator identification, and percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI identification number.

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