Oncology Specific EHR Software
/ Oncology System - EHR/CIS
The core of an integrated Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a Clinical Information System (CIS). ICC Oncology Tools offers a unique EHR with CIS designed by oncologists for oncologist, one that integrates all relevant information that the clinical team will need at point of care to act quickly and effectively in caring for their patients. ICC oncology solution brings a level of automation, coordination of care and management of clinical oncology practice that enhances productivity, improves efficiency and helps operational margins.
In a single screen, side by side or on a scroll, caregivers can see a selection of laboratory and medical imagery results, vital signs, electrolytes, allergies, mental state and pre-existing pathology, in a dynamically interactive setting that is unavailable with either the paper charting or current static electronic records that have prevailed until now.
This kind of access helps achieve improved outcomes, and provides patients with the full measure of the benefits of personalized advanced oncology practice. Only this type of expert system, with rich oncology clinical content and intelligent treatment of clinical information, offers real decision support at point of care that qualifies as ‘Meaningful Use’. It is important to understand that these automated tools bring a new focus on efficiency providing full integration not only of attendant protocols of staging, pathology including evaluating pathology reports, dosing and chemotherapy, but also of the supporting general medicine.
The ICC Oncology EHR supports advanced practices and has content that helps the care team handle a great many complex issues, for example in defining strategies for assessing, preventing and managing chemotherapy induced side effects. ICC offers a suite of applications that also cover the complexities of other disciplines such as neurology, surgery and gynecology.
This represents a critical paradigm shift that will render obsolete the vast majority of current EHR systems that do not have oncology specific integration and offer mostly static bulk storage of medical data. Our oncology solution takes HIT to a higher level, adding flexibility, interconnectivity, interoperability, and greater safety for patient.
The same paradigm shift will also affect those systems locked in segregated silos that cannot have a useful bearing on medical outcomes; they lack seamless integration with other systems.The Obama Administration has been stressing the urgent need for interoperability and technology standardization, championing automated seamless interconnections between systems.
Beyond Best Of Breed
The extraordinary complexities of some of the newer cancer care protocols mean that oncologists must adopt best of breed systems, that is, workflow automated tools specifically designed for their practice like the ICC Oncology Tools. However when these advanced clinical tools are integrated with the ICC intelligent EHR and its many administrative features, then they provide the care team with all the advantages of best of breed all wrapped up in a complete solution that will centralise total patient information.
Quality Assurance
An EHR with a genuine CIS comprising rich decision support can provide the practice of oncology with the kind of effective quality assurance that only automated measuring tools are capable of generating. One of the strength of the ICC Oncology Tools lies in how it provides easily accessible data retrieval. This enables validated quantitative analysis with its attending statistical grids that have traditionally been the foundation of quality assurance in those industries that have benefited from its application. This should encourage the formulation of new protocols for protecting patients and providing real security as never before.