ACS Collaborates with Arcadia to Bolster Clinical Data Strategy

The ACS and Arcadia (arcadia.io) last week announced a new collaboration to support the ACS Clinical Data Strategy, a multi-year effort to modernize how surgical clinical data are collected, connected, analyzed, and used across ACS Quality Programs and patient registries. 

The ACS Clinical Data Strategy spans quality programs, registries, and surgical specialties. The collaboration with Arcadia will provide hospitals, clinicians, and quality improvement teams with more powerful insights to reduce administrative burden, strengthen connectivity across programs, and improve surgical patient outcomes.

“This is not a technology initiative. This is a quality improvement strategy enabled, in part, by Arcadia’s trusted healthcare performance platform,” said ACS Executive Director & CEO Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS. “The ACS, a long-standing leader in surgical quality, is developing solutions to help hospitals and care teams spend less time managing data and more time enhancing patient care and improving clinical outcomes. Our collaboration with Arcadia is an important step in advancing that vision.”

The initiative is designed to create a comprehensive surgical data ecosystem that enables hospitals and care teams to use trusted clinical data more effectively across the continuum of surgical care. The ACS is not changing what defines high-quality clinical data; it is modernizing how those data are collected, connected, and used while preserving the rigorous standards, clinical expertise, and trusted benchmarks on which hospitals rely.

Through its collaboration with Arcadia, the ACS will advance the data platform capabilities needed to support this strategy, including more intuitive reporting and analytics tools that make it easier for hospitals to identify trends, understand performance, and uncover opportunities for improvement without manually exporting, manipulating, and reformatting data outside the system.