Ross Memorial Hospital Chooses mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology to Meet CCO Standard

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: 
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800 

-December 8, 2009-

Ross Memorial Hospital chooses mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology to meet CCO standard 

Becomes the sixteenth Ontario hospital to implement xPert for Pathology

Boston, MA – Ross Memorial Hospital in Lindsay, Ontario, has selected mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet Cancer Care Ontario’s 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard for pathology reporting.

Standardized pathology reporting increases the availability and consistency of cancer pathology information that is essential for treatment decisions, evaluation, and research.

mTuitive complies with the 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard developed by Cancer Care Ontario in conjunction with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Committee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The CAP checklists¹ for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, and endometrium were amended to include the mandatory pathologic collaborative staging elements.

xPert for Pathology interfaces with all available Pathology and Laboratory Information Systems on the market which lends itself to wide use throughout the province.  Other Ontario hospitals utilizing mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet the CCO data standard include Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, The Scarborough Hospital, North York General Hospital, Lakeridge Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Rouge Valley Health System, Bluewater Health, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Stratford General Hospital and Sudbury Regional Hospital.

About mTuitive: mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for pathology, oncology, and cancer staging applications. Established in 2003, mTuitive, Inc. is based in Massachusetts. See us on the Web at www.mtuitive.com.

1. This material includes the Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols which are copyrighted works of the College of American Pathologists. Encoded within the Checklists are portions of the copyrighted work of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, SNOMED CT. © 1998-2007 IHTSDO. The Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols are used with permission of the College of American Pathologists – which has also authorized use of SNOMED CT as encoded in the Checklists.

College of American Pathologists’ Cancer Protocols Update

We put this message together to update our clients on the newest release of CAP Cancer Protocols.  There are a number of important dates for us all to know. 

In October 2009, the CAP Cancer Committees completed and released a new version of the Cancer Checklists and Protocols.  These checklists and protocols were released on the CAP website as Microsoft Word and PDF documents.  There have been significant changes to the content of the cancer checklists.  Elements from the new 7^th edition of AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, also released this year, are included.  These checklists are only in a document format and do not include any codes (e.g., SNOMED).  Read more about them on the CAP website.

DIHIT is the division of the CAP that manages the electronic version of the Cancer Checklists (eCC).  mTuitive has been advised by the DIHIT that they will begin delivery of the eCC checklists in XML format beginning in January 2010.  

 Following the DIHIT delivery of the eCC checklists, mTuitive will begin to incorporate the XML version of the new checklists into our standard CAP Checklist release.  We will need to schedule a session with each of our clients to review these new templates and discuss the delivery and upgrade process.

Niagra Health System chooses mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology to meet CCO standard

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Contact: 
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800 

-November 18, 2009-

Niagra Health System chooses mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology to meet CCO standard 

Becomes the first hospital to leverage the MEDITECH Magic HL7 Interface 

Boston, MA – Niagara Health System in St. Catharines, Ontario has selected mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet Cancer Care Ontario’s 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard for pathology reporting.  Building upon mTuitive and Sudbury Regional Hospital’s success in leveraging MEDITECH’s Client Server Pathology Transcription HL7 Interface, Niagara will be the first MEDITECH site to utilize the Magic Pathology Transcription HL7 Interface to interface with mTuitive.

Standardized pathology reporting increases the availability and consistency of cancer pathology information that is essential for treatment decisions, evaluation, and research.

mTuitive complies with the 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard developed by Cancer Care Ontario in conjunction with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Committee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The CAP checklists¹ for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, and endometrium were amended to include the mandatory pathologic collaborative staging elements.

xPert for Pathology interfaces with all available Pathology and Laboratory Information Systems on the market which lends itself to wide use throughout the province.  Other Ontario hospitals utilizing mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet the CCO data standard include Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, The Scarborough Hospital, North York General Hospital, Lakeridge Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Rouge Valley Health System, Bluewater Health, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Kingston General Hospital, Stratford General Hospital, and The William Osler Health Centre.

About mTuitive: mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for pathology, oncology, and cancer staging applications. Established in 2003, mTuitive, Inc. is based in Massachusetts. See us on the Web at www.mtuitive.com.

1. This material includes the Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols which are copyrighted works of the College of American Pathologists. Encoded within the Checklists are portions of the copyrighted work of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, SNOMED CT. © 1998-2007 IHTSDO. The Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols are used with permission of the College of American Pathologists – which has also authorized use of SNOMED CT as encoded in the Checklists.

William Osler Health Centre Chooses mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology to Meet CCO Standard

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: 
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800 

-October 31, 2009-

William Osler Health Centre becomes the thirteenth Ontario hospital to implement xPert for Pathology

Boston, MA – William Osler Health Centre in Brampton, Ontario, has selected mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet Cancer Care Ontario’s 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard for pathology reporting.

Standardized pathology reporting increases the availability and consistency of cancer pathology information that is essential for treatment decisions, evaluation, and research.

mTuitive complies with the 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard developed by Cancer Care Ontario in conjunction with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Committee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The CAP checklists¹ for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, and endometrium were amended to include the mandatory pathologic collaborative staging elements.

xPert for Pathology interfaces with all available Pathology and Laboratory Information Systems on the market which lends itself to wide use throughout the province.  Other Ontario hospitals utilizing mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet the CCO data standard include Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, The Scarborough Hospital, North York General Hospital, Lakeridge Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Rouge Valley Health System, Bluewater Health, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Stratford General Hospital and Sudbury Regional Hospital.

About mTuitive: mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for pathology, oncology, and cancer staging applications. Established in 2003, mTuitive, Inc. is based in Massachusetts. See us on the Web at www.mtuitive.com.

1. This material includes the Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols which are copyrighted works of the College of American Pathologists. Encoded within the Checklists are portions of the copyrighted work of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, SNOMED CT. © 1998-2007 IHTSDO. The Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols are used with permission of the College of American Pathologists – which has also authorized use of SNOMED CT as encoded in the Checklists.

mTuitive and Sudbury Regional Hospital Achieve 100% Compliance with CCO Data Standard

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Contact: 
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800 

-October 13, 2009-

mTuitive and Sudbury Regional Hospital Achieve 100% Compliance with CCO Data Standard

Boston, MA – In August, as part of the Cancer Care Ontario Synoptic Reporting project, Sudbury Regional Hospital went live with mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting system.  Today, Cancer Care Ontario announced that Sudbury has reached 100% compliance with the 2008-2009 College of American Pathologist/Collaborative Stage-aligned data standard adopted by Cancer Care Ontario.  The current standard, Phase I, includes five disease sites:  Breast, lung, prostate, endometrium and colorectal.

“Sudbury Regional Hospital pathologists work in a busy environment, reviewing a large number of tests daily that are critical to the health and treatment of its patients. A user-friendly and reliable solution was required that would provide simple, efficient and accurate reporting, while also satisfying provincial certification standards. We are pleased to have achieved 100% compliance with these standards,” stated Dr.Anna Bojarski, Chief of Pathology at Sudbury Regional Hospital.

Sudbury licensed the MEDITECH Pathology Transcription Suite which mTuitive leveraged to send results back to MEDITECH using HL7. xPert for Pathology is launched directly from within MEDITECH, the template is completed by the pathologist, and the data is then sent across the ‘Results In’ portion of the interface into the desired data sections within MEDITECH.

“Our hospital looks for products and services that support a project through implementation with solid technical knowledge, a willingness to work with existing systems and strong end user education. These factors led to a smooth implementation of electronic Pathology synoptic reporting”, stated Mark Hartman, Interim Vice President for the Regional Cancer Program.

mTuitive is preparing its customers for Phase II of the project which will include the entire set of more than seventy College of American Pathologists Cancer Checklists.  mTuitive already provides the full set of CAP checklists to its customers, and will be updating them and including them as part of the 2010 CCO standard when it becomes available.  Because most current customers report all cancers synoptically via xPert for Pathology, they are very well prepared for Phase II. 

Current mTuitive customers in Ontario include: Lakeridge Health Corporation, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, North York General Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, The Toronto East General Hospital, Kingston General Hospital, The Scarborough Hospital, Rouge Valley Health System, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Bluewater Health, Cambridge Memorial Hospital, Markham Stouffville Hospital, Stratford General Hospital and William Osler Health Centre. mTuitive has already helped eleven of these hospitals go live with synoptic reporting and meet the Cancer Care Ontario certification standards.

About mTuitive: mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for pathology, oncology, and cancer staging applications. Established in 2003, mTuitive, Inc. is based in Massachusetts. See us on the Web at www.mtuitive.com.

1. This material includes the Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols which are copyrighted works of the College of American Pathologists. Encoded within the Checklists are portions of the copyrighted work of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, SNOMED CT. © 1998-2007 IHTSDO. The Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols are used with permission of the College of American Pathologists – which has also authorized use of SNOMED CT as encoded in the Checklists.

Virtual Autopsy Table

Take a look at this virtual autopsy using a Microsoft Surface table.  Structured data capture solutions created with mTuitive’s Agile Author would be nice supplement to this emerging technology.

The Virtual Autopsy Table from NorrköpingsVisualiseringscenter on Vimeo.

Stratford General Hospital Chooses mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology to Meet CCO Standard

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: 
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800 

-September 15, 2009-

Stratford General Hospital becomes the twelfth Ontario hospital to implement xPert for Pathology

Boston, MA – Stratford General Hospital in Stratford, Ontario, a member of the Huron Perth Health Alliance, has selected mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet Cancer Care Ontario’s 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard for pathology reporting.

Standardized pathology reporting increases the availability and consistency of cancer pathology information that is essential for treatment decisions, evaluation, and research.

mTuitive complies with the 2008-2009 CAP/CS aligned data standard developed by Cancer Care Ontario in conjunction with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Cancer Committee, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. The CAP checklists1 for breast, lung, colorectal, prostate, and endometrium were amended to include the mandatory pathologic collaborative staging elements.

xPert for Pathology interfaces with all available Pathology and Laboratory Information Systems on the market which lends itself to wide use throughout the province. Other Ontario hospitals utilizing mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution to meet the CCO data standard include Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, The Scarborough Hospital, North York General Hospital, Lakeridge Health, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Rouge Valley Health System, Bluewater Health, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Cambridge Memorial Hospital and Sudbury Regional Hospital.

About mTuitive: mTuitive, Inc. develops data capture and synoptic reporting software to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines. Our unique method of capturing structured information provides valuable data for pathology, oncology, and cancer staging applications. Established in 2003, mTuitive, Inc. is based in Massachusetts. See us on the Web at www.mtuitive.com.

1. This material includes the Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols which are copyrighted works of the College of American Pathologists. Encoded within the Checklists are portions of the copyrighted work of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, SNOMED CT. © 1998-2007 IHTSDO. The Cancer Checklists and Cancer Protocols are used with permission of the College of American Pathologists – which has also authorized use of SNOMED CT as encoded in the Checklists.

An “iPhone-like” Platform for Heathcare Information Technology

I stumbled across a recent paper by doctors at Children’s Hospital in Boston that calls for a marketplace that would enable vendors to sell modules of software that meet very specific needs in an interchangeable and integratable way.  There is a website championing the cause:

http://chip.org/platform

 There are links there to the original paper in NEJM.

 I believe this is a response to the Obama funding that many believe will just entrench established vendors and poor software more deeply.

mTuitive and Sudbury Launch Seamless Integration of xPert and MEDITECH C/S

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: 
Mike Valentine, VP North American Sales
mike.valentine@mtuitive.com
508.771.5800 

-August 7, 2009-

Boston, MA—Sudbury Regional Hospital in Sudbury, Ontario and mTuitive, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts are pleased to announce the successful integration of mTuitive’s xPert for Pathology synoptic reporting solution with MEDITECH Client Server. 

Sudbury purchased the MEDITECH Pathology Transcription Suite which mTuitive leveraged to send results back to MEDITECH using HL7.  xPert for Pathology is launched directly from within MEDITECH, the template is completed by the pathologist,  and the data is then sent across the ‘Results In’ portion of the interface into the desired data sections within MEDITECH.

“This has been the easiest MEDITECH interface implementation that I have done to date, and I have done many,” said Peter Cox who is the Clinical Applications Analyst at Sudbury.  “Working with Peter O’Toole at mTuitive made the implementation a snap.  I received data in the MEDITECH INBOX with the first message that was sent.  After a few minor tweaks, we were receiving results in the pathology data section within 10-15 seconds after the synoptic report was submitted from the mTuitive software.”

“Sudbury Regional’s talented MEDITECH users were able to seamlessly launch mTuitive from within MEDITECH C/S, creating a very smooth workflow for the pathologists,” said Peter O’Toole of mTuitive.  “Then our HL7 messaging infrastructure combined with the MEDITECH transcription interface provided a reliable, rock solid, and very fast way to put results back into the pathology report, almost instantaneously.”

Current mTuitive customers in Ontario include:  Lakeridge Health Corporation, Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, North York General Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, The Toronto East General Hospital, Kingston General Hospital, The Scarborough Hospital, Rouge Valley Health System, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, Bluewater Health, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Cambridge Memorial Hospital and Markham Stouffville Hospital.  

mTuitive has already helped nine of these hospitals go live with synoptic reporting and meet the Cancer Care Ontario certification standards.  mTuitive is actively seeking to replicate this integration with a MEDITECH Magic customer.

mTuitive has integrated xPert for Pathology with the majority of pathology systems on the market in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom.

About mTuitive
mTuitive, Inc. develops structured data capture and synoptic reporting software with embedded clinical decision support to assist health care professionals in recording clinical findings and maintaining compliance with established protocols and guidelines.mTuitive software improves care to the patient through quality assurance and error reduction while standardizing and automating manual reporting processes, reducing both time and labor costs. Established in 2003, mTuitive, Inc. is based in Massachusetts. See us on the Web at www.mtuitive.com.

Amazing New User Interface Makes Journey from Lab to Phone – Could the Hospital Be Next?

It’s always interesting to see the fun stuff researchers are doing and think about how research will flow into industry applications.   A good example was the multi-touch interface research by Jeff Han at NYU that quickly made its way from the lab onto the iPhone and now a part of Windows 7.

Technology Review reports on 5 extremely innovative user interfaces on display at SIGGRAPH 2009 this week (found via Slashdot). My favorite: giving a real-life Lego mini-figure a virtual bazooka.  How will these user interfaces apply to consumers? To healthcare? Time will tell.