Pharos Joins Get With The Guidelines Stroke Registry
The San Francisco health technology company is now a Compatible Vendor for the American Heart Association's stroke quality improvement program.
Updated on Nov. 5, 2026 in Stroke
Pharos has become a Compatible Vendor for the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines - Stroke program. Participating hospitals can use Pharos to abstract and submit chart data directly to the registry.
Why it matters
Get With The Guidelines - Stroke is the largest hospital-based stroke quality improvement registry in the United States, and manual chart abstraction is a time-consuming step for participating hospitals. Compatible Vendor status gives those hospitals a way to automate part of that workload.
More than 2,600 U.S. hospitals participate in the registry, where a single stroke chart commonly takes an hour or more to abstract by hand. Pharos reports an 80% reduction in per-chart abstraction time, though the extraction does not say how that figure was measured.
The players
Pharos
A San Francisco health technology company founded in 2024 by clinicians and AI researchers, which applies a neurosymbolic approach to registry abstraction.
American Heart Association
A national nonprofit that runs the Get With The Guidelines programs, including the stroke registry, to improve cardiovascular and stroke care quality.
The details
Pharos reads structured and unstructured data from the medical record and pre-populates registry variables. Each answer includes supporting evidence pulled from the chart with confidence scoring, and charts with conflicts or missing data are flagged for human review.
Timeline
November 4, 2026: Pharos announced its Compatible Vendor designation.
2024: Pharos was founded and raised a $5M seed round led by Felicis.
Big Picture
The development extends Get With The Guidelines - Stroke, the largest hospital-based stroke quality improvement registry in the United States, by adding an automated submission pathway for hospitals already feeding it chart data. It reflects a broader move toward software that handles manual medical record abstraction for national quality programs.
Stroke patients at participating hospitals may see their chart data submitted to the registry more quickly if those hospitals adopt Pharos. The change affects hospital workflows and does not alter how stroke treatment is delivered to patients.
The takeaway
Hospitals that participate in stroke quality registries can evaluate whether automated abstraction tools fit their existing data workflows. Reviewing how any tool flags conflicts and missing data is a practical first step.
Further reading
For more on stroke care and registry quality programs, see our Stroke coverage.
More information
Hospitals can learn more on the Pharos information page for Get With The Guidelines - Stroke.
Source note: This article includes information reported by Simcoe Reformer.
