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, […]
Cancer Registries: First Responders of Oncology Data
In the United States, hospital-based cancer registries serve as the first point of truth in cancer surveillance. Every confirmed diagnosis, staging element, treatment decision, and disease milestone begins here, with an Oncology Data Specialist and a data system built to capture the full arc of a patient’s cancer journey. The Oncology Data Specialist: Turning Raw […]
Closing the Real-Time Data Gap in Cancer Care
The cancer community agrees on one goal: data should drive better outcomes. Yet a critical gap remains between how real-time is understood by clinical and administrative leaders and how the term is often interpreted in cancer registry operations. For hospital leadership and clinicians, real-time means having access to curated data as events occur, so their […]
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 […]