Project Overview

Problem:

  • Radiation therapy treatment details – critical for care coordination – are not readily available in systems other than radiation oncology EHR modules.
  • Treatment data is generally manually entered into radiation therapy treatment summary documents, creating clinician burden and potential patient safety issues.
  • Additionally, providers are unable to leverage these data to meet reporting requirements (e.g. quality reporting, registry reporting) or support comparative effectiveness research.

Description:

  • Radiation oncologist adds all in-progress and end-of-treatment radiation therapy summary details into the radiation oncology information system. 
  • The radiation oncology information system is able to take this radiation information and generate a treatment summary report, either an in-progress or end-of-treatment report
  • Once the treatment summary report is generated, the radiation oncology information system is able to send this treatment summary to a radiation oncology resource repository (FHIR server) 
  • And then an Observer (user), either another radiation oncology information system or an EHR vendor system, can retrieve the treatment summary information that matches the search parameters sent to the radiation oncology resource repository 

Target Outcome: 

  • To develop, test and deploy open data standards that enable interoperable, multi-purpose exchange of radiation treatment summary data for care coordination and data reuse
    • such as quality management, research, and payer-required reporting 
  • And enable radiation oncology information system to generate treatment summaries that are retrievable by health systems, other information systems, and displayed within the EHR interface 

Value:

  • Radiation oncology information systems will be able to seamlessly generate and share patients' radiation therapy treatment summary information, both end-of-treatment and in-progress summary data, across health systems and providers.
  • Clinicians can then use this readily available radiation therapy treatment summary information to make informed, impactful decisions related to a patient's health, by leveraging this information to support comparative effectiveness research, meet reporting requirements, and improve patient safety

Project Plan 

Phase

Milestone

Timeline

DiscoveryUse case identification 

COMPLETE

Planning

Plan out high level project plan, deliverables, success measures, high level timeline, key stakeholders, etc

COMPLETE

Phase 0

Define and expand the radiation therapy concepts in mCODE, in preparation for mCODE STU 2

COMPLETE


Phase 1 

Radiation oncology system generates end of treatment summary that can be retrieved by another information system

Phase 2

Radiation oncology system generates radiation therapy in-progress treatment summaries that can be retrieved by another information system or health system

Phase 3

Radiation oncology system generates treatment summaries that are retrieved by a health system and displayed within the EHR interface

ON TRACK

December 2022

Conference Call Information

The Radiation Therapy Treatment Data project team is in the process of establishing a reoccurring working group meeting rhythm. If you would like to join the CodeX Community and participate on these planned calls, contact Anthony DiDonato adidonato@mitre.org 


Use Case Team

RoleName Organization
ChampionRandi KudnerAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology
ChampionSamantha DawesAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology
ChampionChuck MayoAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine
Use Case CoordinatorAnthony DiDonatoThe MITRE Corporation
Terminology CoordinatorSharon SebastianThe MITRE Corporation
Technical CoordinatorJohn ChristodouleasUniversity of Pennsylvania
Technical CoordinatorMichelle CasagniThe MITRE Corporation
Technical Coordinator and Terminologist Martin von SiebenthalVarian
Clinical SME and TerminologistJim HaymanMichigan Medicine
Clinical SME and TerminologistRishabh KapoorVirginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Clinical SME and TerminologistMary FengUniversity of California - San Francisco 
Clinical SME and Technical CoordinatorNikola CihoricWemedoo
Clinical SME and TerminologistJohn Kildea

Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists

Clinical SME and TerminologistPhilippe DespresCanadian Organization of Medical Physicists
Clinical SME and TerminologistKen BuckwalterSociety for Imaging Informatics in Medicine

If you'd like to learn more about this use case, please contact Anthony DiDonato - adidonato@mitre.org 

Current Collaborators

  • American Society for Radiation Oncology
  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • The MITRE Corporation
  • Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists
  • Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine
  • Varian
  • Telligen 
  • Wemedoo
  • University of Michigan 
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Veterans Health Administration 
  • McGill University
  • University of Pennsylvania 
  • University of California - San Francisco
  • RaySearch
  • Elekta
  • Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise-Radiation Oncology
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