Perspectives on Registry Automation: Firestorm or Reality?
Recent perspectives on the adoption of AI to support cancer registry casefinding, abstraction, and analytics have landed differently across the community. The intensity of the feedback signals something important: a shared commitment to data integrity, accurate patient stories, and the long-term credibility of cancer registry work. To move the conversation forward, it helps to set […]
How to Get ROI on Cancer Registry AI Software
When cancer registry AI software does not deliver the expected ROI, it is tempting to assume the technology is not working. Often, the real issue is that AI is being used to “optimize” workflows that were designed for manual work, legacy systems, and batch reporting. Instead of redesigning the end-to-end process, organizations layer AI onto […]
Human and AI: Better Together in the Cancer Registry
Cancer registrars are expected to keep pace with expanding requirements, improve timeliness, and deliver increasingly complex analytics, often without the option to add more staff. It is no surprise that the conversation turns to technology: automation, smarter workflows, and AI-supported casefinding and abstraction. But when AI is introduced as part of a “do more with […]
Beyond Reporting – the Cancer Registry and Oncology Intelligence
Hospital leadership is increasingly prioritizing decision-grade data: data that is timely, trusted, and usable across the enterprise. In that context, the cancer registry can and should be positioned as more than a mandatory reporting function—it can become a high-value data asset for the oncology service line. When registry data is captured concurrently, and at the […]
Social Determinants of Health in Cancer Care
Cancer care is often discussed in terms of diagnoses, treatments, biomarkers, and clinical outcomes. But many of the factors that influence whether a patient is diagnosed early, starts treatment on time, and completes therapy should also be considered. These are Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), the non-medical conditions in the environments where people are born, […]