Date: November
17th, 2009
Contact: Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Niagara Health System Chooses mTuitive's
xPert for Pathology to Meet CCO Standard
Becomes the First Hospital to Leverage
the MEDITECH Magic HL7 Interface
Boston, MA - Niagara Health System in St.
Catharines, Ontario has selected mTuitive's xPert for Pathology synoptic
reporting solution to meet Cancer Care Ontario's 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data
standard for pathology reporting. Building upon mTuitive and Sudbury Regional Hospital's success in
leveraging MEDITECH's Client Server Pathology Transcription HL7 Interface,
Niagara will be the first MEDITECH site to utilize the Magic Pathology
Transcription HL7 Interface to interface with mTuitive.
Standardized pathology reporting increases the
availability and consistency of cancer pathology information that is essential
for treatment decisions, evaluation, and research.
mTuitive complies with the 2008-2009 CAP/CS
aligned data standard developed by Cancer Care Ontario in conjunction with the
College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Committee, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The
CAP checklists1 for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, and
endometrium were amended to include the mandatory pathologic collaborative
staging elements.
xPert
for Pathology interfaces with all available Pathology and Laboratory Information
Systems on the market which lends itself to wide use throughout the
province. Other Ontario hospitals utilizing mTuitive's xPert for
Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet the CCO data standard include
Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, The Scarborough Hospital, North
York General Hospital, Lakeridge Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
Rouge Valley Health System, Bluewater Health, Peterborough Regional Health
Centre, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Kingston
General Hospital, Stratford General Hospital, and The William Osler Health
Centre.
About mTuitive: mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting
software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and
maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique
method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for
pathology, oncology, and cancer staging applications. Established in 2003,
mTuitive, Inc. is based in
1. This material includes the
Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols which are copyrighted works of the