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- Happy NCRW Week!
- About You! Putting the Spotlight on CTRs
- Make ERS Part of Your Fall Conference
- Industry News: Staging After Neoadjuvant Treatment for Solid Tumors
- April Tip of the Month: Dashboard Reports - KPI at a Glance!
- ERS Webinar Series - Upcoming Educational Webinar
- Data Warehouse Projects: How the Cancer Registry Can Play a Role in Patient Quality of Care and Outcomes
- April Employee Spotlight - Todd Carter
- Refer CRStar - Earn $200
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ERS joins all cancer registrars in celebration of the 25th Annual National Cancer Registrars Week - April 5-9, 2021!
Cancer registrars play a pivotal role in capturing and analyzing the data that drives prevention, research, treatment, and outcome initiatives that directly impact the quality and outcomes of patient care. Administrators and clinicians have come to rely on the cancer registry as “the driving force of cancer data!”
We salute your hard work, commitment, and dedication!
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About You!
Putting the Spotlight on CTRs
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To celebrate National Cancer Registrars Week (NCRW), ERS is launching a new series called, “About You!” which will highlight the personal story and experience of a different CTR every few weeks. As the name suggests, this is “About You” - the CTRs who make up the cancer registry community.
We’re kicking off this series with Michael Serwint, MD, a CTR at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. His story embodies the special role that the cancer registry community plays in cancer care.
If you know of a CTR who deserves recognition or if you are a Cancer Center leader who would like to give a shout out to an outstanding CTR, please reach out and let us know. Upon getting permission with the CTR’s leadership, Sally Kruse, CTR, a legend in her own right, will follow up with a wide-ranging interview and a summary article representing her discussion.
These interviews will be available on the ERS website and also posted on Facebook. The featured individual with the greatest number of “likes” on Facebook will receive a prize at the end of the year! If you're not already following us on Facebook, please make sure to click "Like" our page while you're there!
This is your opportunity to engage and highlight a community that often doesn’t get recognized – and have some fun while doing it.
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Make ERS Part of Your Fall Conference |
State cancer registry associations are in the planning stages of fall educational conferences and we would like to help!
Is your state looking for speakers at it's fall conference? If so, CRStar Client Advocate Specialists are available and can speak on a variety of topics of interest for the cancer registry community.
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Industry News
Staging After Neoadjuvant Treatment for Solid Tumors
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From "CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians"
Until recently, cancer registries have only collected cancer clinical stage at diagnosis, before any therapy, and pathological stage after surgical resection, provided no treatment has been given before the surgery, but they have not collected stage data after neoadjuvant therapy (NAT). Because NAT is increasingly being used to treat a variety of tumors, it has become important to make the distinction between both the clinical and the pathological assessment without NAT and the assessment after NAT to avoid any misunderstanding of the significance of the clinical and pathological findings.
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April Tip of the Month
Dashboard Analytics - KPI at a Glance!
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This month’s tip of the month focuses on CRStar’s Dashboard Analytics. There are fifteen different Dashboard reports available in CRStar. The reports focus on key performance indicators for both cancer registry managers and administrators.
Dashboards provide a data visualization tool to allow users to understand analytics that matter to the cancer registry and the entire cancer program. The dashboard reports compile data that enable the user to visualize trends and circumstances.
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The administrative dashboard reports consist of in and out migration trends, market shares and referral pattern reports. Registry dashboards allow managers to quickly and easily monitor productivity, incidence reporting, anticipated caseloads and CoC quality measure compliance.
Each of the fifteen dashboard reports can be customized to time periods, the facilities to be included, and which users have access to the reports. Dashboards are a must have for busy managers and administrators!
If you are not currently taking advantage of your dashboards to monitor key performance indicators, submit a CRStar Helpdesk ticket and one of our Client Advocate Specialists will be happy to help!
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Upcoming Educational Webinar |
Please join us for the next installment of the ERS Webinar Series. Christi Cox, CTR, Manager of Education and Jonathan Rakestraw BS, CTR, Client Advocate Specialist will be presenting ”Cancer Registry Reporting: From Mystery to Mastery.”
The webinar will be presented on April 20 and April 22, both at 12 pm EST. "Cancer Registry Reporting: From Mystery to Mastery," will demonstrate a broad range of skills related to reporting that will raise participants' confidence in effectively communicating with requestors, selecting precise populations, building concise reports and creating customizable graphs.
Elevate your registry's value to its full potential with this often requested and highly anticipated presentation! Don’t miss out! Check your inbox the week of April 5 for the invitation and registration link. NCRA CE credits are pending.
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Future Webinar Suggestions
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Data Warehouse Projects
How the Cancer Registry Can Play a Role in Patient Quality of Care and Outcomes
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Does your cancer program have a data warehouse project? If the answer is yes, are they utilizing cancer registry data? If not, they should be and we can help automate the process!
A data warehouse is a shared database that collects, integrates and stores data from a variety of sources including EMR, radiology, radiation, and lab data, as well as data from non clinical sources, such as financial data. The combined data can then be utilized to enhance data quality and consistency. The data are used for an assortment of health system and cancer program projects such as clinical trials, research, treatment analysis and financial decisions.
Cancer registry data can be more reliable than other sources and the level of detail it can provide is very helpful to researchers and clinicians. Data can be exported from your CRStar solution and imported into the data warehouse. This process can be automated so the same report and export is generated on a routine and regular basis.
Would you like to learn more about data warehouse projects and how your cancer registry can play an integral role in research and clinical decisions? Click the Let’s Talk button and schedule a call with Melanie Rogan, CTR, Director of Registry Services and Todd Carter, Manager, Technology and Implementation Services.
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April Employee Spotlight - Todd Carter |
This month, the ERS Employee Spotlight shines on Todd Carter. Todd joined ERS as a Software Developer in December 1994, after graduating from Evangel University with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Todd's experience has grown alongside ERS for the last two and a half decades and he is now managing several major processes, including the ERS Technical Support Team, the Product Implementation and Integrations Team, as well as serving to oversee the company's security efforts. His favorite part of the job is learning how to make the cancer registry data that is collected be as effective as possible to patient care.
Todd has been a lifetime resident of the sunny city of Fairfield, Ohio, where he lives with his beautiful wife, Amy. Outside of work, Todd enjoys jiu jitsu, listening to live bands, and cutting up with friends and family whenever possible.
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Do you love CRStar?
So do we and we are offering our loyal customers the chance to earn a $200 gift card when a Cancer Program that you refer becomes an ERS customer!
Please click "Refer CRStar" below if you know of any Cancer Programs that could benefit from CRStar and the advantages that CRStar users enjoy and rely on.
Let's grow our CRStar community together!
Terms and conditions can be found on the CRStar Referral Form.
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