January 11, 2026 / Last updated : January 11, 2026 Michele Webb cancer registry automation

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 […]

November 20, 2025 / Last updated : January 8, 2026 Michele Webb Real-Time Data Collection

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 […]

February 1, 2025 / Last updated : February 1, 2025 Michele Webb ODS-C artificial intelligence

Changing Perceptions About AI

The blog post said not to use artificial intelligence (AI). Or at least that is what caught my eye. After re-reading the post again I was relieved to see the author was concerned about how it was being used for a specific workflow and application, not related to healthcare. It made sense in that setting, but it did make me think. There is so much noise about the use of artificial intelligence these days for just about everything we do at work or at home. Oncology Data Specialists (ODS’) and oncology service line administrators might easily get caught up in the AI noise and dismiss its use in the cancer registry setting which could be a huge mistake. There are appropriate uses of AI in the Registry and it is important that you understand the use cases and benefits.