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- Save the Date! Dr. Frederick Greene & Dauphne McGavic to co-host the next installment of the Executive Cancer Center Leadership Webinar Series
- Is Your Registry Prepared for NAACCR Version 22?
- About You! Putting the Spotlight on CTRs: Nancy Etzold, CTR
- Clinical Corner by Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS, CMO
- Tip of the Month: Best Practice - Maintaining Current Genedit Settings
- November Employee Spotlight - Rohit Nayak
- Refer CRStar - Earn $200
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This one-hour webinar will focus on the purpose of tumor boards, the role the CoC has played in the development of tumor boards, an overview of tumor board accreditation standards and the roles and responsibilities the cancer registry plays. New innovations will be discussed, as well, as the future of tumor boards.
The webinar will be presented on December 14, 2021 at 12pm Eastern Standard Time. Please share this information with your Cancer Center leaders, as well as any tumor board participants.
If you think your cancer center leaders could benefit from seeing how the data you work with each day can be leveraged to promote cancer center initiatives and community healthcare needs, please click below and we will send them an invitation.
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Invitations will be emailed out on November 30, 2021. |
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Is Your Registry Prepared for NAACCR Version 22? |
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How is your registry preparing for the transition from V21 to V22? The new changes take effect with cases diagnosed beginning January 1, 2022. There are many valuable resources (both new and updated) available on the NAACCR website to help your registry become prepared for the new changes. The available resources are listed in the table below and the links to each resource can be found by clicking the link below to access the resource page.
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About You! Putting the Spotlight on CTRs
Nancy Etzold, CTR
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The next well-deserving CTR highlighted by our About You! Series is Nancy Etzold, CTR. She is currently the Cancer Registry Director at OU Medicine, Inc. in Oklahoma City, OK. Her interview is posted on Facebook.
Reminder: 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!
Next month, we will recap all of the CTR's featured in the 2021 About You! Series and the top vote getter will be announced in January 2022 when we resume the series with a new slate of top CTR's from the registry community!
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.
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Clinical Corner
Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS, CMO
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A few weeks ago, the American College of Surgeons officially launched the centennial anniversary celebration of the Commission on Cancer. In 1921, the ACS Board of Regents authorized the formation of the Registry of Bone Sarcoma under the direction of Ernest Amory Codman of Boston, MA. One year later, the cancer initiative of the ACS was formalized under the banner of the Committee on the Treatment of Malignant Diseases with Radium and X-ray. The original name of the committee was changed to the Committee on the Treatment of Malignant Diseases (CTMD).
The concept of developing “cancer clinics” in existing general hospitals was conceived in 1927 and finally launched in 1931 with the first surveys. The first cancer clinic was established at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Early standards included cancer conferences for discussion of patient management, the mandate to include surgical therapy and equipment for “x-ray” therapy and radium sources, appropriate record-keeping on the treatment of each patient and organized surgical divisions within the hospital to support the cancer clinics.
During the late 1930s, the members of the newly named ACS Committee on Cancer recognized that not all cancer clinics should be created at large urban hospitals. Several clinics were approved at smaller, rural institutions with the understanding that patients requiring specialized cancer care would be referred to the nearest, fully equipped cancer clinic. The tradition of sending surgical site visitors to evaluate the cancer clinics was launched. This would be the forerunner of the approvals and accreditation activities of the CoC in future decades.
For me, the most important accomplishment of the CoC over these 100 years is the initiation and support for cancer registries and cancer registrars. All of you have been the bedrock underlying all of the successes of the CoC over these 100 years and I celebrate you every day!
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Tip of the Month
Best Practice: Maintaining Current Genedit Settings
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To maintain high quality data and to meet and exceed state and national requirements, all abstracted cases must pass edits. In CRStar, users have the ability to run multiple edit sets on individual cases, as well as on larger batches of cases before data submission.
As we are all aware, the edit metafiles are updated often by NAACCR, individual states, NCDB ad RCRS. It can be a challenge to ensure you are using the most current metafiles. To assist with the process, CRStar is updated on a monthly basis and any new metafiles received form any standard setter since the last upgrade are included.
The new metafiles are listed by state and/or standard setter in the monthly “Enhancement and Correction” document that accompany each upgrade and posted on the CRStar Resource Page. All CRStar users should be in the practice of reviewing the “Enhancement and Correction” document to identify new edit metafiles, as well as become familiar with all enhancements and corrections included in the monthly upgrade.
New metafiles are posted in the document, along with the date the metafile was released to us and the metafile name. After review, all users should change the metafile configuration and update with the new metafiles. Genedit settings are maintained under Preferences, Configurations and Genedits. See example below.
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Helpful Hint 1: If your health system contains reporting facilities in dual states, both state metafiles can be loaded in the Genedit Settings and run-on applicable cases. See dual state edit configuration below.
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Helpful Hint 2: If your state has state specific metafiles, it is suggested to run the standard NAACCR edits on cases in addition to the state specific edits. By doing so, you may catch errors that the state has disabled in their specific edit sets. This adds an additional layer in providing quality data!
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November Employee Spotlight - Rohit Nayak |
This month’s spotlight shines on Rohit Nayak, CEO. Rohit joined ERS as CEO exactly three years ago. Although a veteran with experience across health tech and med tech companies large and small, Rohit had no prior exposure to the Cancer Registry ecosystem. Which was exactly what drew him in! The extent of information being carefully collated by CTRs for every patient, and the opportunity to positively impact the journey, care and treatment of cancer patients was compelling for him. The past three years have been a learning experience under the tutelage of the ERS team, which he claims was generous and welcoming. The team collectively outlined a vision and aspirational patient-centric strategy for ERS, a simple but lofty goal to improve cancer care for every patient. This, in conjunction with the team’s unflagging desire to make raving fans of each and every one of our extensive client base has undoubtedly led to ERS’ current success trajectory.
Trained as an Electrical Engineer followed by an MBA in Finance, Rohit started his professional journey in healthcare with a software company he co-founded more than 20 years back. This company was a pioneer in providing electronic prescribing software and quickly became a part of Quest Diagnostics, a well-known diagnostics leader which was interested in developing a new business healthcare informatics. After many exciting years building and growing a substantial health informatics business, Rohit went back to the startup world. That didn’t last long, since he soon took the helm at starting a new Digital Health business for Baxter Healthcare, a global med tech firm. This journey had him focused on the circumstance of ESRD patients and prompted the development of a remote patient management platform now being used across more than 100 countries. The pathway, however, led back to a desire for smaller organizations and eventually ERS.
On a personal level, Rohit lives in Cincinnati with his wife and son, who is now readying himself for college. His passions and interests are diverse, though notably he has recently started running or perhaps more appropriately trying to run half-marathons.
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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!
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