3 Ways Cancer Registry Outsourcing Can Elevate Your Approach
At the heart of a successful cancer program is the ability to meet or exceed industry standards for quality and compliance. Outsourcing cancer registry services provides comprehensive assessments and data abstracting at the highest level of specificity. This ensures your limited time and resources are focused on where they will deliver the greatest benefit: your patients and your bottom line.
Here’s how outsourcing cancer registry services can be beneficial for your organization.
The Demand for Certified Tumor Registrar (CTRs) Continues to Grow
According to the National Cancer Registrars Association, “The demand for qualified cancer registrars is greater than ever.” However, there is a staggering shortage of talent. This is largely due to the rigorous prerequisites to sit for the CTR exam.
Outsourced cancer registry solutions can allow your cancer program to thrive amidst the shrinking talent pool. They can also help your organization improve efficiency and boost confidence in clinical data.
Outsourcing Elevates Your Approach to the Demand
Here are three benefits that outsourcing cancer registry abstraction services brings to the table:
Expertise at Your Fingertips
Having a seasoned manager as a part of the outsourcing team provides an added layer of expertise. This is especially important when assessing your organization’s increasingly diverse patient population.
A seasoned manager also has experience improving process efficiency, which leads to greater productivity and a lower turnover rate. Paired with a team of experienced CTRs, this will help eliminate cancer data collection errors. It will also provide you with the highest abstraction accuracy standards attainable.
Access to Additional Resources
Outsourcing means access to additional resources. Your organization can take advantage of these resources to better monitor cancer care best practices. These practices are certainly needed when negotiating with payers and to protect revenue. They can also provide compliant reporting that impacts state and federal allocation of grant funding.
Improved Efficiency and Focused Goals
With the right outsourcing team, your organization can gain control of processes and costs. You’ll have highly qualified CTRs working on behalf of your organization’s bottom line. That means your team can advance in meeting organizational, clinical research, and Return on Investment (ROI) goals. That also means your organization will be miles ahead when it comes to providing evidence-based care.
The Bottom Line
If your organization is considering outsourcing its cancer registry services, invest in interim expert staff who can streamline processes and save you money. Your organizations can reap rewards such as:
- Physicians having enhanced reports and a clear vision of your cancer program’s progress
- Administrators gaining access to valuable oncology market share information
- The entire team enjoying peace of mind when it comes to clinical outcomes and state reporting
Harmony Healthcare has the flexibility and scalability your organization needs. We can seamlessly staff your organization with the skills required for each unique registry. Our robust support will keep your program running smoothly, allowing you to focus on providing quality patient care. Let’s talk about how we can help your organization today.
We are uniquely positioned to provide expert solutions to help your organization with:
- Commission on Cancer (CoC) program management / operational assessments
- New CoC program development and implementation
- CoC survey assessment and preparation
- Annual report writing, preparation of statistical analysis, and outcomes reporting
- Registry data quality and compliance audits
- Outsourced solutions with guaranteed accuracy and compliance
- Interim data oncology directors
- Cancer registry management staff training and education
- Proven oncology data abstracting and collection services for clinical trials, disease registries, and bone marrow transplant programs
