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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Closing Casefinding Gaps in Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma
Automation sees what routine workflows miss. Real-time data turns “negative” into knowledge. The American Cancer Society projects 2,041,910 new cancer diagnoses in 2025, with hematologic malignancies accounting for 9.5% of all leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma cases. Roughly two-thirds of these patients will undergo a bone marrow aspirate biopsy as part of staging or diagnosis. Yet, […]