- Created by Rute Martins, last modified by Anthony DiDonato on Dec 06, 2022
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 |
---|---|---|
Discovery | Use 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 | COMPLETE |
Phase 2 | Radiation oncology system generates radiation therapy in-progress treatment summaries that can be retrieved by another information system or health system | COMPLETE |
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 |
Quick Links
RTTD Public Call - July 19th, 2022
RayCare 6A supports the mCODE Radiotherapy Profiles
- RayCare press release & flyer
RTTD Public Call - February 16th, 2022
CodeX RTTD Implementation Guide - Draft
RTTD Web App and GitHub Repository for XRTS Workshop
mCODE Implementation Guide (STU 2)
Data Element / Profile / Value Set Analysis
Radiation Therapy Treatment Data (Member page)
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
Role | Name | Organization |
Champion | Randi Kudner | American Society for Radiation Oncology |
Champion | Samantha Dawes | American Society for Radiation Oncology |
Champion | Chuck Mayo | American Association of Physicists in Medicine |
Use Case Coordinator | Anthony DiDonato | The MITRE Corporation |
Terminology Coordinator | Sharon Sebastian | The MITRE Corporation |
Technical Coordinator | John Christodouleas | University of Pennsylvania |
Technical Coordinator | Michelle Casagni | The MITRE Corporation |
Technical Coordinator and Terminologist | Martin von Siebenthal | Varian |
Clinical SME and Terminologist | Jim Hayman | Michigan Medicine |
Clinical SME and Terminologist | Rishabh Kapoor | Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine |
Clinical SME and Terminologist | Mary Feng | University of California - San Francisco |
Clinical SME and Technical Coordinator | Nikola Cihoric | Wemedoo |
Clinical SME and Terminologist | John Kildea | Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists |
Clinical SME and Terminologist | Philippe Despres | Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists |
Clinical SME and Terminologist | Ken Buckwalter | Society 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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