The ACU-Track Clinical Registry

Hosted by Amplitude Clinical

Producing Real World Research

The ACU-Track Registry is a patient outcomes tracking system which has been specifically designed for the Acupuncture and Traditional East Asian Medicine (TEAM) profession.

  • Individual Practitioners

  • Organisations and Colleges

  • Research Projects

Designed to fit in seamlessly with routine clinical practice

 

Enabling practitioners to easily record their patient results, using validated health questionnaires online.

Amplitude Clinical

The ACU-Track Registry is hosted by globally recognised software specialists Amplitude Clinical.

  • A leading supplier of Patient Outcomes software for the British NHS.

  • Adhering to the highest international standards of Data security including GDPR.

Our Research Aims

Large-Scale Data Collection

The ACU-Track Registry is capable of collecting large scale clinical data in routine practice:

  • Enabling practitioners to easily record the results of their treatments as validated research

  • Increasing the use of Evidence-based practice in acupuncture and TEAM

  • Helping build an extensive research registry for the profession

Research and Analysis

The ACU-Track team will regularly analyse the Registry, producing research outputs studying:

  • Short and Long-term Effectiveness

  • Cost-effectiveness

  • A wide range of Health Complaints

  • Safety and Adverse Effects

  • Specific and Non-specific Factors

  • Comparative Analysis with Conventional Treatments and other Healthcare Interventions

Dissemination

  • Governments

  • Healthcare Providers and Insurers

  • Medical Charities

  • Prospective Patients

  • Healthcare Practitioners

  • Teaching Institutions

The ACU-Track Registry is capable of providing healthcare insurers and providers with real data on how much better patients can expect to get when they receive acupuncture and TEAM treatments, for which conditions, and for what cost.

Funding Future Research

Research outputs from the ACU-Track Registry will help:

  • Ensure future research is informed by real life clinical practice

  • Incentivise increased public research funding into acupuncture and TCM

  • Lead to new collaborations with research institutions

  • Fund more post-graduate research

  • Establish more University-based acupuncture and TEAM courses and research departments

Our research has the potential to significantly boost the status of Acupuncture and TEAM globally as an evidence-based healthcare choice