Integrating electronic health records (EHRs) to facilitate cancer biomarker testing: Real-world implementation barriers and solutions.
Plain-language summary
This work reports on a 2023 summit convened by the Association of Cancer Care Centers, where 37 oncologists, pathologists, nurse navigators, and administrators from varied settings discussed how to integrate cancer biomarker test ordering and results into the electronic health record. Participants identified benefits such as greater efficiency, streamlined communication, and improved clinical decision-making, along with success factors like strong clinical champions, administrative buy-in, and dedicated IT support. Reported barriers included variable EHR interoperability, use of multiple external reference labs, inconsistent nomenclature, and limited internal IT resources, pointing to what is needed to make EHR-integrated biomarker workflows more common.
Read the full paper (DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.e13649).
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