Physician Reporting to a Public Health Repository – Cancer Registry
Physician Reporting to a Public Health Repository - Cancer Registry defines the data elements to be retrieved from the EMR and transmitted to the cancer registry or to a healthcare provider.
Physician Reporting to a Public Health Repository - Cancer Registry Recording
Summary
The Physician Reporting to a Public Health Repository–Cancer Registry Profile provides a means through which physician office EHR systems can report information on cancer patients to the public health cancer registry. A single, consistent method allows efficient and accurate exchange of information while reducing the burden on EMR system-specific or registry-specific implementations.
Benefits
The PRPH-Ca Profile facilitates the implementation of an automated electronic process for the identification and reporting of cancer cases, treatment, and outcomes from ambulatory healthcare provider EHR systems to public health central cancer registries. Automated electronic reporting is expected to reduce labor (for the ambulatory healthcare providers and public health central cancer registries, and increase the security, completeness, timeliness and accuracy of cancer surveillance data.
Details
Systems Affected
Specification
Profile Status: Trial Implementation
Documents:
QRPH Physician Reporting to a Public Health Repository - Cancer Registry:
Underlying Standards:
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This page is based on the Profile Overview Template