ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center of Buffalo, N.Y., has just signed an agreement to use the CancerLinQ® platform. The first cancer center in the U.S., established in 1898, Roswell Park is one of many practices to join the CancerLinQ® family in recent months.
Roswell Park was recognized in 1972 as one of the first three National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. Today, it is one of 28 National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) members, all leading academic cancer centers in the country.
“We at Roswell are excited to join CancerLinQ,” said Stephen Edge, MD, FACS, FASCO, Vice President of Healthcare Outcomes and Policy at Roswell Park. “We hope to use it to enhance our quality oversight, benchmark care, use with other data to better understand care delivery and quality, and support local and national research efforts.”
CancerLinQ currently has more than 100 subscribers. In addition to Roswell Park, many practices, including Baptist Healthcare System in Louisville, Ky., and Crystal Run Healthcare in Middletown, N.Y., have signed agreements to join the platform during the past six months.
Sixty practices have completed the onboarding process to establish a link between the CancerLinQ database and their electronic health record (EHR) system, and more than 1.5 million de-identified, real-world cancer patient records are now in the database. CancerLinQ is now helping these practices improve patient care through quality automation tools and dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights.
“The CancerLinQ database reflects cancer care in all its real-world variability, including practice settings, communities, and age of patients being treated,” said CancerLinQ CEO Cory Wiegert. “Practices who participate are able to access a platform that enables them to meet quality reporting requirements in a more seamless fashion and discover insights that can improve the care they provide.”
CancerLinQ® and CancerLinQ Discovery® are products of CancerLinQ LLC. For more information on how to participate, please visit CancerLinQ.org.
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