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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
