xPert for Staging™
xPert for Staging™ is a product designed for managing physicians to assign T,N, and M elements and a Stage Group for cancer patients.  Managing physicians, and not cancer registrars or other nonphysician professionals, assign and record these elements on a staging form within the medical record.  Proper staging allows the physician to determine appropriate care and treatment of the cancer patient.  Read more about the facts of staging at the National Cancer Institute website.

mTuitive?s xPert for Pathology™ captures approximately half of the data elements required to fully stage, code for and report on a tumor. These data elements are used to drive treatment protocols and record in cancer registries.  xPert for Staging presents all of the data elements recorded by the pathologist in a simple to read format to the managing physician and allows him or her to complete the checklist quickly, ensuring completeness and compliance.  The T,N,M report is automatically coded and registered in the medical record and Cancer Registry.

xPert for Staging will integrate with all EMR and Cancer Registry software systems.

Benefits

xPert for Staging presents an opportunity to transform the arcane process of data abstraction into a clinical tool for patient treatment - streamlining and improving the quality of data collected.  xPert for Staging provides the managing physician with a quick and simple manner to record required staging information, improving communication among treatment providers. 

The benefits extend to the Cancer Registry by alleviating the need to chase down physicians to gather all of the required data.  Staging data elements are translated into machine readable codes and automatically transferred to the cancer registry software system.  Inefficiencies associated with transcription, data mining, abstracting and re-entry into cancer registry software provide an immediate ROI.  Cancer registrars are empowered to be analysts rather than abstractors.