A Quality and safety registry for accreditation longevity clinics

GHA Living Evidence Registry

GHA Living Evidence is a quality and safety registry for longevity medicine, developed by Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA). It records the same core information about patients of participating GHA-accredited longevity clinics, from first assessment and care planning through handovers and follow-up, so clinics can see what happens after care and improve it.

3
GHA-accredited longevity providers in the founding pilot
25-90
consecutive eligible adults enrolled per provider
90 Days
to the planned follow-up contact
5
core quality and safety measures

What is the GHA Living Evidence Registry?

The GHA Living Evidence Registry is an organized system for collecting the same information, in the same way, about patients receiving longevity care from participating GHA-accredited clinics. Its purpose is to measure the quality of longevity care and to monitor patient safety after care begins. The Scientific Advisory Council for the Longevity Accreditation Program will oversee how information is defined, checked and reported.

The name reflects the registry's purpose: evidence drawn from patients' lives that keeps developing as more providers and patients take part.

Why does longevity medicine need a registry?

Longevity medicine needs a registry because clinics offer many assessments and treatments but share little consistent information about what happens after a patient leaves. A registry answers practical questions:
  • Was the care plan completed?
  • Did the next clinician receive the information they needed?
  • Did follow-up happen?
  • How do patients describe their progress, and were problems recorded?
Answering these questions consistently is the first step toward better care and better evidence.

What does the registry record?

The GHA Living Evidence Registry begins with five core quality and safety measures, collected at the start of care and at a follow-up about 90 days later.
Start of care
follow-up - about 90 days

Assessment and care planning

Whether a baseline assessment, a patient-selected goal and a physician-approved care plan are documented within 14 days.

Handovers

Whether necessary information and responsibilities reach the next treating clinician, including a home clinician after a patient travels for care.

Follow-up

Whether patients complete a follow-up contact within the planned window.

Patient-reported progress

How patients describe progress toward their agreed care goal.

Safety follow-up

Whether clinics ask about and record problems, unplanned care or treatment stopped because of a problem after care began.
Each record also notes the type of care setting, whether the patient traveled for care, and the evidence tier of the interventions provided under GHA’s Healthy Longevity Medicine Standard. Final measures and timing will be confirmed through scientific review before enrollment begins.
Accreditation · Settings and borders · Founding pilot

How the registry works

How is the registry connected to GHA accreditation?

The registry is connected to accreditation through GHA’s Healthy Longevity Medicine Standard, GHA's evolving accreditation framework for longevity medicine, which classifies diagnostics and interventions by strength of evidence. The registry records care against those same classifications, so findings can be read alongside the standards.

Findings are reviewed by the scientific committee and may inform future standards through GHA's established standards development process. They do not change standards automatically.

How does the registry follow care
across settings and borders?

The registry is designed to show whether longevity care continues after a patient leaves the clinic, including when care takes place away from home. Many longevity patients receive care through , also called medical tourism, or in residential and hospitality wellness settings.

The founding pilot records wheter each patient traveled for care. Later modules for medical travel and residential settings will add detail as accredited sites in those programs join.

What the registry records after a patient leaves
A departure summary was provided
The home clinician acknowledged it
Follow-up took place

What is the founding pilot?

The registry's founding pilot is planned with three GHA-accredited longevity providers in one region, each enrolling 25 to 50 consecutive eligible adults starting a new outpatient longevity care program.

Consecutive enrollment means every eligible patient is invited, so the registry reflects routine care rather than selected cases. The pilot tests whether the information can be collected reliably and with a practical workload.

3
providers, one region
25-50
adults per provider
90
days to follow-up
10-15
minutes of data entry per episode

What do participating providers receive?

Providers in the founding pilot receive private feedback on their own care and support to collect registry data reliably:
  • Onboarding and three short data collection forms.
  • Private quarterly dashboards on care planning, handovers, follow-up, patient-reported progress and safety documentation.
  • Data quality feedback and an annual improvement review.
  • A consistent, independently governed way to answer questions about what happens after care.
Each provider names a clinical lead and a coordinator. GHA works with sites to keep data entry to about 10 to 15 minutes per patient episode.

What do participating providers receive?

If your clinic takes part in the GHA Living Evidence Registry, you may be asked to choose a goal for your care and to answer a few questions about your progress and any problems at a follow-up contact, usually about three months after you start.

Your clinic keeps your name and contact details. GHA receives only coded information approved for the registry.
Your clinic will explain your choices before any information is shared, and your decision will not affect your access to care.

Who oversees the registry?

The registry will be overseen by the Scientific Advisory Council for the Longevity Accreditation Program with expertise in longevity medicine, registry methods, quality and safety, and patient experience. The committee will approve the registry's definitions, data checks and reports. Members disclose conflicts of interest and step aside from decisions involving their own organizations.
GHA
Manages operations
CLINICS
Remain responsible for patient care
Accreditation
Decisions stay in GHA's separate process

How is patient information protected?

The registry keeps patient identifiers with the treating clinic. GHA receives only a limited set of coded fields under a written data agreement covering permissions, access, permitted uses, withdrawal and retention.
  • GHA does not sell patient-level data.
  • Any public report will show only reviewed aggregate results, with small numbers suppressed to protect privacy.

How will the registry grow?

The registry starts with a small, stable core of measures. In later years GHA may add longer follow-up, a validated patient-reported health measure, modules for medical travel and residential settings, and selected clinical measures. Each addition depends on scientific review, reliable collection and a practical workload. Earlier records are never rewritten to fit new definitions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is GHA Living Evidence a patient registry?

Yes. GHA Living Evidence is a quality and safety registry: it collects uniform information about a defined group of patients to measure quality of care and monitor safety. It is not currently a research study. Any future research use will require its own protocol and appropriate ethics review.

How is a registry different from a clinical trial?

A clinical trial assigns patients to treatments under a research protocol to test whether a treatment works. A registry such as GHA Living Evidence observes routine care as it happens, without directing which treatments patients receive, to measure quality and monitor safety.

Who can take part in the founding pilot?

The founding pilot is open to GHA-accredited longevity providers, or providers completing accreditation before enrollment, that have the staff and systems to follow patients for about 90 days. Eligibility will be confirmed before enrollment.

When will the registry start enrolling patients?

Patient enrollment has not yet started. The founding pilot will begin enrolling after final measures and timing are confirmed through scientific review and participating providers are confirmed. The registry status at the top of this page shows the current stage.

Is the registry an accreditation or certification?

No. Taking part in the registry does not create a separate award, endorse any treatment or affect accreditation decisions. Accreditation decisions remain within GHA's accreditation process.

Will the registry prove that longevity treatments work?

No. The GHA Living Evidence Registry describes care processes, patient-reported progress and safety follow-up. These observations help clinics improve and can identify questions for further study, but they cannot show that a treatment caused a health improvement or extended life.

How does the registry relate to medical travel?

Every registry record notes whether the patient traveled for care, and handovers to a clinician in another region or country are reported separately. This shows whether care continues after a medical travel patient returns home. A dedicated medical travel module is planned for a later phase.

What will patients be asked to do?

Patients of participating clinics may be asked to choose a care goal and answer brief follow-up questions about progress and problems since care began. Clinics explain participation choices before enrollment. Choices do not affect access to care.

Will clinic results be published or ranked?

Participating clinics receive private results, and the registry does not rank clinics. Any aggregate report will be reviewed for accuracy and privacy and will state the number of sites, number of patients, missing information and limitations.

Does GHA sell registry data?

No. GHA does not sell patient-level registry data. Access to aggregate information will follow a data access and use policy, published after the scientific committee approves it.

Does the registry provide medical advice or urgent monitoring?

No. The registry supports periodic quality review, not medical advice or urgent clinical monitoring. Patients continue to receive care from their treating team and should contact their clinician or emergency services when needed.

How can a provider express interest?

Complete the founding pilot inquiry form with your organization, location, role, care setting and accreditation status. GHA will contact you about scope, readiness requirements and next steps.

Help build a registry for longevity medicine

GHA invites accredited longevity providers to help establish a consistent, independently governed registry for longevity medicine. Start with a manageable set of measures and contribute to evidence that keeps developing.

Help build a registry for longevity medicine

GHA invites accredited longevity providers to help establish a consistent, independently governed registry for longevity medicine. Start with a manageable set of measures and contribute to evidence that keeps developing.
Standards that evolve. Learning that continues.