Joint Commission to Require Pathology Synoptic Reporting
Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care organizations and programs in the United...
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Sep 29, 20144 min
Should pathology be exempt from EHR requirements?
standards that many believe are not applicable to their specialty. In the broadest of terms, "meaningful use" is a listing of...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20145 min
Pathology Synoptic Reporting Helps Improve Oncology Practices
It can be difficult to convince people that medical synoptic reporting is necessary without coming off like a pedantic nerd. No one likes...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20143 min
Structured Data Enables Research into Efficacy of Double Mastectomy
The study, entitled "Impact of Bilateral Versus Unilateral Mastectomy on Short Term Outcomes and Adjuvant Therapy, 2003-2010: A Report...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20143 min
New Guidelines Push Clear Margins as Standard for Lumpectomy Surgery
The battle rages on in the war against breast cancer, and yet every day we learn more about how to effectively combat the enemy. By...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20143 min
Structured Data and Usability - Crossing the Quality Chasm 2.0
"When we create digital records and pretend to anticipate all the needs of clinicians, we make mistakes," Reider said. "We think we’ve...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20143 min
Top 3 Reasons to Ditch Dictation & Trash Transcription
For many years, the best solution to solving all of these problems surrounding reporting was using dictation and transcription. Dictation...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20146 min
Know Your Audience: Usability in Health IT
In the post, Reider lists multiple reasons why health IT is different than most other technology offerings - certainly from the type...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20144 min
Structured Data + ICD-10: Readiness Is All
"Crises Precipitate Change." - Deltron 3030 Healthcare workers have recently been hit by a tidal wave of changes to their occupations....
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20143 min
Pathology Synoptic Reporting Improving Cancer Outcomes?
In 2008, Cancer Care Ontario (CCO), backed by CPAC, began its Pathology Reporting Initiative to ensure that pathologists were uniformly...
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lillieverson
Sep 29, 20144 min
Latest Education Tools: Clinical Decision Support & Synoptic Report
Both are methods for documenting occurrences and events in providing treatment to patients, and both are widely in use by various...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20143 min
The Costs of Interfacing
In a great post on Caristix.com, Sovita Chander writes about the reasoning for the high costs of healthcare interfaces and the unique...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20144 min
Craigslist and the Specialization of the Health IT Market
But what does this all have to do with health information technology? How does the rise of the consolidated megastore tie in to the...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20143 min
Need to Improve Cancer Care? Then Improve Cancer Reporting
- Anne Marie Bickmore, RN Despite all the advancements in technology, science, medicine, and a myriad other fields, cancer remains a...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20143 min
Streamlined Documentation: Synoptic Reporting As Cure for Note Bloat?
There are numerous reasons (most of them sensible, fair, and well-intentioned) for capturing so much information and having it in a...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20141 min
New Procedure for Breast Cancer Beneficial to Patient Experience
The procedure, known as Radioactive Seed Localization, is less invasive than the current method that uses wire localization. In that more...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20143 min
What is Synoptic Pathology Reporting?
Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) recently posted a definition of synoptic pathology reporting, including why they have implemented it and how it...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20142 min
Humanity in the Time of Structured Data
As Dr. Misialek states: You can request a meeting with me, you can ask — as Mrs. C did — to review your pathology, whatever the...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20143 min
Consolidated CDA: Promising Approach to Pathology Synoptic Report
HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) has been around for many years, but recently it has resurfaced as part of meaningful use...
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lillieverson
Sep 28, 20142 min
Standards in Pathology Synoptic Reporting (Video)
The CoC recently posted the following video to help people better understand the standards for Pathology Reporting (based on the CAP's...
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