What is Real-Time in Cancer Care?
How do you define real-time data in cancer care? Across oncology, “real-time” data is increasingly defined not by a specific number of minutes or hours, but by its ability to meaningfully inform current clinical or quality decisions. NAACCR’s Real-Time Reporting Taskforce distinguished true real-time processing as “…data captured and available essentially as events occur…” from […]
Smarter, Sustainable Cancer Registries
Are You Building a Smarter, Sustainable Cancer Registry? The most efficient, least costly, and most accurate way for a cancer registry to maintain and grow is not by doing the bare minimum or adding more staff — it is by implementing AI automation that is paired with strong best practices and quality control. Automation handles […]
Cancer Registries Are at a Fork in the Road
Cancer registries face a turning point. Case-finding, abstraction, and follow-up once depended entirely on manual effort, but data demands have grown exponentially in the last decade. Hospitals now require near real-time information to support quality reporting, value-based care, personalized medicine, and population health. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a solution, but adoption requires engagement and clarity […]
Closing Casefinding Gaps in Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma
Automation sees what routine workflows miss. Real-time data turns “negative” into knowledge. The American Cancer Society projects 2,041,910 new cancer diagnoses in 2025, with hematologic malignancies accounting for 9.5% of all leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma cases. Roughly two-thirds of these patients will undergo a bone marrow aspirate biopsy as part of staging or diagnosis. Yet, […]