Date: September
15, 2009
Contact:
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Stratford General Hospital Chooses
mTuitive's xPert for Pathology to Meet CCO Standard
Becomes the twelfth Ontario hospital
to implement xPert for Pathology
Boston, MA - Stratford General Hospital in
Stratford, Ontario, a member of the Huron Perth Health Alliance, 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.
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 and Sudbury Regional Hospital.
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 College of American Pathologists.
Encoded within the Checklists are portions of the copyrighted work of the
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, SNOMED CT 1998-2007 IHTSDO. The Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols are used with
permission of the College of American Pathologists - which has also authorized use of SNOMED CT as encoded in the Checklists.