Clinician Perspectives Regarding the Impact of Information Technology on Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards: A National Comprehensive Cancer Network Survey
Plain-language summary
A National Comprehensive Cancer Network workgroup surveyed oncology clinicians across member institutions in early 2022 to understand how information technology tools, such as electronic health records and virtual conferencing, affect multidisciplinary tumor boards. Nearly all respondents reported that their tumor boards now include participants attending virtually, and most said attendance increased after virtualization while discussion quality stayed the same or improved. The survey also revealed gaps between how important clinicians consider EHR features (like adding patients for presentation or documenting recommendations in the EHR) and how often they can actually do those things, highlighting where EHR integration falls short of the ideal.
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