title: 'Onco alerts' to support acute oncology services.
abstract: The National Chemotherapy Advisory Group report has recommended that all hospitals in the UK with an Emergency Department should establish an acute oncology (AO) service. Acute oncology, when implemented at a clinical network level, presents significant challenges for informatics, including the requirement for 'onco alerts' - automated notification of admission of potential cancer patients, whose diagnosis may not be recorded on the admitting hospital's IT systems. In this short paper we present a case study and describe an approach to supporting the development of AO services with cross-organisational information systems.
authors.affiliation: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Thomas.poulter@ccotrust.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Poulter
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Bath
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D003628:Database Management Systems; D018563:Disease Notification / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D055991:Health Records, Personal; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D008495:Medical Oncology; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D006113:United Kingdom