EAST ANGLIAN CANCER REGISTRY Problems in moving towards automation

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Problems in moving towards automation

Automated cancer registration is….

“Where streams of data about an individual case of cancer are received electronically from different sources and are processed by a computer system to:

create a new patient and a new tumour OR

create a new tumour for an existing patient OR

update an existing tumour for an existing patient

without the need for human intervention.”

Areas of concern:•No electronic data

•Accuracy of data

•Non-hospital data

•Patient identification

•Problem resolution

JCIS

•Addenbrooke’s, Hinchingbrooke, Peterborough

Dendrite

•Norfolk & Norwich, James Paget

No News From….

•Bedford, Ipswich, West Suffolk, Luton & Dunstable, Papworth, Kings Lynn

•NCDS - just a summary

•Who records the information in it ?

•Are they trained in cancer coding ?

•The data must be of high quality and consistent

•What about secondaries ?

Other sources e.g.:

•GP Notes

•Consultants with private patients

Notification

•Death cards

•Patient affairs office

•Pathology reports

Patient Identification:

•Use of New NHS Number

•Wrongly allocated numbers

•What if they can’t find the number for a patient ?

•Hospital number

•Two numbers for the same patient

•The same number used by two people

Problem Resolution:

If what we are sent is inadequate for a case and we need to “eye-ball” the notes:

•Will they still exist ?

•Will we be able to get at them ?

•How ?

Bearing in mind that it is nearly lunchtime…..

Any Questions ?