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
Allison Cuff Shimooka on March 24, 2011 |
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Topics: Staffing, Labor Expense, Workforce, Benchmarking, Management Tools, Performance Improvement
A member reached out to me seeking to speak with other cancer programs that have used Solucient data to benchmark staffing in the infusion center. If you've used Solucient data before, and would be willing to network, please let me know by emailing me directly at shimooka@advisory.com and I'll make introductions.
They're an academic medical center, so ideally would like to speak to other academics, but would appreciate general networking as well. Thanks!
