Why Saying AI Solutions Can “Do More With Less” Triggers Fear
“Do more with less.” Four words that can instantly trigger alarm for cancer registrars. For many, the phrase activates a stress response rooted in familiar pressures: unrealistic expectations, shrinking timelines, or a perceived loss of control. When a team is already operating at maximum capacity, it can widen the gap between what leadership expects and […]
Beyond Pathology: Building an End-to-End Casefinding Workflow
As cancer registry data management continues to evolve, optimizing casefinding workflows is essential for improving data accuracy while strengthening efficiency and productivity. Pathology is often the first—and primary—casefinding source. Intelligent casefinding and AI-driven extraction from pathology can improve timeliness, reduce errors, and streamline day-to-day work. Pathology reports are well suited to automation because their structured […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]