Navigating Cancer’s President and Founder, Gena Cook, spoke at the recent ACCC Annual Meeting and Cancer Center Business Summit on the topic of electronic patient-reported outcomes in the context of value-based care. The value of the patient voice in cancer care as...
Patient Reported Outcomes
Minnesota Oncology Launches Health Tracker Practice-Wide
Minnesota Oncology recently announced the practice-wide implementation of Health Tracker, Navigating Cancer’s patient-reported outcomes program. Minnesota Oncology is leading the way in the state by extending the care they provide with remote monitoring for oral...
Improving outcomes through patient engagement and PROs
A patient-engaged approach to cancer care has been shown to improve outcomes and the entire patient experience. When patients can report their symptoms easily, those symptoms can be managed in a more timely fashion, reducing visits to emergency departments and...
Need a flexible program to support cancer patients? Health Tracker might be the answer.
Navigating Cancer is working on some exciting improvements to Health Tracker, our remote monitoring program that gives cancer care providers an easy way to check in with patients about medication adherence and side effects with a simple SMS text message. In working to...
Integrating Patient-Reported Outcomes in Cancer Care
If you’ve been paying attention to trends in the discussions around value-based cancer care, you’ve probably been hearing a good bit about electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs). At the National Oncology Conference, Dr. Ethan Basch, a leading patient-reported...
Patient-Reported Outcomes and Value-Based Care
Scientific research demonstrates that clinicians miss approximately half of patients’ symptoms during cancer treatment. As a result, patients can suffer due to poor symptom control, treatments may be delayed or missed, and preventable emergency room visits and...
Taking a Proactive Approach to Symptom Management
Advisory Board recently hosted a webinar that reviewed models and technologies that cancer programs have implemented for remote symptom monitoring. The Oncology Roundtable team shared their research and made a compelling business case for introducing remote symptom...
Dr. Ethan Basch Receives Clinical Research Award
Dr. Basch was the recipient of the Clinical Research Award at ACCC’s National Oncology Conference in Orlando last week. This award recognizes individuals whose research has significantly and positively impacted the oncology patient. Dr. Basch has done this with his...
Join us for a webinar presented by Advisory Board
Improve cancer patient satisfaction and reduce costs with remote monitoring Thinking about exploring remote symptom monitoring for cancer patients at your organization? Join us for a special presentation from Advisory Board's Oncology Roundtable on Tuesday, October...
The value of investing in remote symptom monitoring for your cancer patients
A recent article from Advisory Board confirms what we’ve been advocating at Navigating Cancer for a while now: remote symptom monitoring is essential for improved patient outcomes. Symptom and side effect management can help reduce costs, improve quality of life, and...
Better Cancer Care with Patient Reported Outcomes
The Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research recently held its 6th Annual Value in Cancer Care Summit. The morning plenary session was given by Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, entitled “Collecting Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve...
A key tactic to reduce ED visits: empower patients to report symptoms
We recently returned from the Association of Cancer Executives Annual Meeting where the Advisory Board gave a presentation titled, “Strategies to Keep Your Cancer Patients Out of the ED.” This has been a hot topic in the transition to value-based care - we wrote about...
Connect with us at NCCN
If you are going to be attending NCCN in Orlando this week, let us know. We'd love to connect - we'll be in booth 252 in the exhibit area. Learn more about our Patient Relationship Management software, including care management and remote monitoring. About the...
Don’t Overlook Depression Screening for Cancer Patients
Depression is a common issue for cancer patients and there are obvious reasons for that - the diagnosis itself, uncertainty of the outcome, financial stress and many more. It can also go untreated when the symptoms - weight loss, loss of appetite and others - are...
Navigating Cancer Featured in Advisory Board Oncology Roundtable
The Advisory Board's Oncology Roundtable national meeting will be held in August. At the meeting they will be looking at market forces impacting oncology, tactics to position cancer program for success in value-based programs. One session at the meeting entitled "The...
Improve survival with remote monitoring
The recent annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology brings together more than 30,000 oncology professionals from around the world to discuss new innovations and treatments. ASCO’s Plenary Session highlighted four abstracts “deemed to have the...
Remote Monitoring Proven to Increase Survival
As the pressure on cancer care providers to identify ways to deliver high quality care at a lower cost, there is a big opportunity to use technology to give patients the personalized care they need. Navigating Cancer has led the way in developing tools that will put...
Combine Telehealth and Remote Monitoring for Comprehensive Cancer Care
Navigating Cancer, the leader in oncology patient-engagement technology, is excited to introduce telehealth and remote monitoring capabilities to its Care Management solution. Together, these capabilities improve medication adherence, help reduce the negative impact...
Patients want more engagement. Here are four effective ways to achieve it.
Patient Engagement HIT and AJMC both recently published stories about patient surveys that had similar findings when it came to what patients want: more engagement. Patients want engagement and providers need it as the shift to value-based care begins. In addition to...
Make patient-reported outcomes meaningful with PRM
Fierce Healthcare recently reported on a study that compared the information patients were including on paper questionnaires to what was actually recorded in the EMR. It probably comes as no surprise that the study found that frequently what was reported by the...
Health Tracker: Managing Your Highest Risk Patients
Remote Monitoring and Patient Reported Outcomes As many cancer care providers recognize, one thing that could be vastly improved in the current care model is understanding what chemotherapy patients are experiencing between clinic visits. Knowing if the patient is...
Navigating Cancer Re-Imagines Triage Care Delivery with New Symptom Management Pathways
Standardized content enables deeper management of acute patient incidents Seattle, January 5, 2017 -- Navigating Cancer, the pioneer in patient-engagement technology for cancer care, today unveiled Symptom Management Pathways (SMPs) as part the company’s larger Care...
The Oncology Care Model Patient Experience
It’s no secret that policymakers are working to transform cancer care, shifting the basis of provider compensation from quantity of services to quality of outcomes. Currently, more than 20% of Medicare fee-for-service payments flow through alternative payment models...
Value-Based Payment Models and Why Your EMR May Fall Short
Electronic medical records (EMRs) are the software programs that underlie internal clinic workflow at most health care organizations. They’ve been around for a while but implementation nearly doubled nationwide from 2007 to 2012, thanks to the federal resources poured...
Meaningful Use: What to Expect
Last month, acting CMS administrator Andy Slavitt kicked up a media speculation storm when he said,“We are now in the process of ending Meaningful Use and moving to a new regime culminating with the MACRA implementation. The Meaningful Use program as it has existed...
The Rise of PROs
Cancer care is becoming value-based. Evidence of this evolution is widespread, from the rise of the oncology medical home and the Cancer Care Payment Reform Act H.R. 1934, to successful payer pilots such as UnitedHealthcare’s episode payment model and the University...
Patient Reported Outcomes
I had an interesting conversation this week with Dr. Ethan Basch from Memorial Sloan Kettering. He is a medical oncologist focused on prostate cancer and a leading researcher on the impact and value of patients reporting their treatment side effects and the impact...
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