Implementing Genome-Driven Oncology

Implementing Genome-Driven Oncology

Early successes in identifying and targeting individual oncogenic drivers, together with the increasing feasibility of sequencing tumor genomes, have brought forth the promise of genome-driven oncology care. As we expand the breadth and depth of genomic analyses, the biological and clinical complexity of its implementation will be unparalleled. Challenges include target credentialing and valida...

Implementing EHRs in community oncology practices.

Implementing Head-Driven Linearisation Grammar

The thesis presents a new form of linearisation grammar in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) and describes an implementation of a natural language parser that utilises it primarily to process freer word order languages such as German and Japanese. In contrast to the standard HPSG linearisation grammar (Reape, 1993, Kathol, 2000) with a separate component for linear pr...

Implementing and Integrating a Clinically Driven Electronic Medical Record for Radiation Oncology in a Large Medical Enterprise

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE While our department is heavily invested in computer-based treatment planning, we historically relied on paper-based charts for management of Radiation Oncology patients. In early 2009, we initiated the process of conversion to an electronic medical record (EMR) eliminating the need for paper charts. Key goals included the ability to readily access information wherever and whe...

Implementing a regional oncology information system: approach and lessons learned.

RATIONALE Paper-based medical record systems are known to have major problems of inaccuracy, incomplete data, poor accessibility, and challenges to patient confidentiality. They are also an inefficient mechanism of record-sharing for interdisciplinary patient assessment and management, and represent a major problem for keeping current and monitoring quality control to facilitate improvement. To...