on May 16, 2012 |
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Topics: Oncology, Service Lines, Patient Satisfaction, Quality, Performance Improvement, Appropriateness, Workforce, Staffing, Labor Expense
Anne Taylor, Oncology Roundtable
We recently spoke with Dr. Kathleen G. Allen, F.A.C.S., a private practice breast fellowship trained surgeon at The Comprehensive Breast Care Center of Tampa Bay, in Clearwater, Florida, to discuss her experiences with InformedDNA genetic counseling services.
Dr. Allen works with one other surgeon who sees both breast and melanoma patients. The practice sees approximately 500 breast cancer patients per year. They have partnered with InformedDNA to provide comprehensive genetic counseling services for their patients.
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Outsourcing genetic counseling: The provider perspective
on May 14, 2012 |
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Topics: Oncology, Service Lines, Workforce, Staffing, Labor Expense, Appropriateness, Quality, Performance Improvement, Patient Satisfaction
Anne Taylor, Oncology Roundtable
The 2012 Commission on Cancer (CoC) Standards include a new requirement for cancer programs to provide genetic testing and counseling services to patients. (See Standard 2.3 Risk Assessment and Genetic Counseling, page 68 in the 2012 CoC Standards.) To meet the standard, some programs have chosen to outsource to a genetic counseling provider network or vendor.
To better understand how these services work, we spoke with David Nixon, CEO of InformedDNA, who provided more details about how his national provider network enables cancer programs to meet the new Commission on Cancer (CoC) standard for risk assessment and genetic counseling and to provide a highly valued service to patients.
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Outsourcing genetic counseling to meet 2012 CoC standards
Lindsay Conway on April 24, 2012 |
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Topics: Oncology, Service Lines, Strategic Alignment, Management Tools, Performance Improvement, Organizational Models, Workforce
Recently an Oncology Roundtable member asked me: How do you measure the degree of oncology service line integration? It’s an interesting question because so many cancer programs are working towards the goal of better communication and coordination across sub-specialties, but “integration” is a somewhat nebulous goal. For that reason, I like the idea of trying to make it more concrete by developing a set of objective measures.
While I can’t provide a definitive answer for how to measure integration, I wanted to share my thoughts. I would love to hear your opinion as well. You can add them to this post by typing into the box at the bottom of this page under the heading “Tell Us What You Think.”
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How do you measure oncology service line integration?
