Hello
I am sorry I missed the presentation and discussion. I noticed on the slide entitled "Chart Review vs Standards" there was mention of "targeted therapies from EMR". Since those are medicinal products (without specifically identifying the product by the brand name, I would like to highlight there is a new National Drug Terminology for Canadians that provides terminology for use in digital health systems called the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD). The CCDD has been developed by Health Canada and Infoway and aligns with the Health Canada Drug Product Database (DPD). It is similar to RxNorm.

The CCDD can be used in cancer care systems and templates. if you would like more information, please reach out to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or find out more here - https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/standards/canadian/ccdd.

I would be happy to provide more information if there is interest.
Regards
Beverly

On September 25, 2018, Dr. John Srigley and Dr. Scott Campbell provided an update to the Health Terminologies community on synoptic cancer pathology reporting both nationally and internationally.

The presentations spoke to the work to seek international alignment on the clinical content standard with the ICCR (International Collaboration for Cancer Reporting) and the CAP (College of American Pathologists); and about the work at SNOMED International to support the use of SNOMED CT for this type of reporting, data capture and use.

Infoway would like to thank both Dr. Srigley and Dr. Campbell for their time and efforts with respect to this very important work.

The presentation by Dr. John Srigley on the International collaboration for work in synoptic cancer pathology reporting has been posted to InfoCentral and can be found here:

https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-terminologies/pathology-sct/2690-international-collaboration-on-cancer-reporting-setting-global-standards-for-clinical-care-and-cancer-control

The presentation by Dr. Scott Campbell on the use of SNOMED CT in cancer pathology reporting and genomics has been posted to InfoCentral and can be found here:

https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-terminologies/pathology-sct/2681-supporting-precision-medicine-integrating-discrete-pathology-and-molecular-data-into-emrs-using-snomed-ct

As part of the Q&A for this presentation, Dr. Francis Lau asked if there were any paper available in support of this work.

Cancer Care Ontario was kind enough to send along four papers showing evidence based results and support for this work.

The papers can be found here:

https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-terminologies/pathology-sct/2689-synoptic-reporting-and-the-quality-of-cancer-care-a-review-of-evidence-and-canadian-initiative

https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-terminologies/pathology-sct/2688-stage-capture-pathology-reporting-project-summative-evaluation-report

https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-terminologies/pathology-sct/2687-standardized-synoptic-cancer-pathology-reporting-implementation-strategies-for-a-population-based-change-management-initiative-involving-400-pathologists-across-116-hospitals

https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/health-terminologies/pathology-sct/2686-enabling-clinical-practice-improvement-through-a-comprehensive-change-management-program-and-implementation-of-electronic-structured-reporting

Thank you everyone. As additional updates on this work become available, we will be sure to keep everyone updated.

Regards,

Andrea