CTCA applies system integrating decision support into electronic health records

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) is cooperating with 3 healthcare IT vendors to execute a customized solution that enables system integrating decision support for cancer treatment that is given within clinicians’ workflow, enabled by the EHRs (electronic health records) system.

The care treatment’s national provider is working with Allscripts, which supplies the organization’s Sunrise EHR, as well as NantHealth and eviti, which give system integrating decision support capabilities for the latest approach.

By integrating the system integrating decision support or clinical decision support component, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) executives claim that the resulting Clinical Pathways program helps inform the cancer treatment procedure, without interrupting the clinical workflow of physicians. The direct interface of the NantHealth was developed with the input of hundreds of oncologists across the nation and holds a detailed collection of evolving cancer care data.

Cancer Treatment Centers, Allscripts and NantHealth started planning this project previous year to assist sufferers and providers, stated Paul Black, Allscripts Chief Executive Officer. The solution "enhances and makes better the chemotherapy regimen selection and ordering process, and finally, the quality of care CTCA provides to its sufferers."

Clinical Pathways integrates the recent cancer research available, treatment regimens and complementary therapies into the Allscripts Sunrise EHR, which offers oncologists the capability to establish a curated list of care protocols at the point of care. The treatment platform gives custom treatment regimens for specific sufferers and their conditions; comparisons between treatment options; computer order entry capabilities; treatment regimens suggested by eviti, which are then mapped back into the EHR to proprietary CTCA order sets; access to recent instructions; clinical data; and real-time functionality.

"Clinical Pathways depicts all suitable treatment options. It also assists eliminate potential guesswork by clinicians routinely inundated with new data and oncology research," stated George Daneker, Jr., MD, Chief Medical Officer at CTCA at Southeastern Regional Medical Center. "We created an ecosystem of treatment options, customized to the CTCA standard of care, for sufferers to review and select from that is safe and efficient."

The integration of the eviti solution with Allscripts Sunrise EHR for Clinical Pathways permits physicians to retrieve data from an unbiased Evidence-Based Medical Library, which encompasses more than 2,700 of the most suitable evidence-based treatment regimens covering all cancers and cancer subtypes and all modalities.