Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 Jul 1;27(9):1488-1495. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa149.
This review summarizes past and current informatics activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Program of Cancer Registries to inform readers about efforts to improve, standardize, and automate reporting to public health cancer registries.
The target audience includes cancer registry experts, informaticians, public health professionals, database specialists, computer scientists, programmers, and system developers who are interested in methods to improve public health surveillance through informatics approaches.
This review provides background on central cancer registries and describes the efforts to standardize and automate reporting to these registries. Specific topics include standardized data exchange activities for physician and pathology reporting, software tools for cancer reporting, development of a natural language processing tool for processing unstructured clinical text, and future directions of cancer surveillance informatics.
本综述总结了疾病预防控制中心国家癌症登记处过去和当前的信息学活动，旨在让读者了解为改善、标准化和自动化向公共卫生癌症登记处报告而做出的努力。
目标受众包括癌症登记专家、信息学家、公共卫生专业人员、数据库专家、计算机科学家、程序员和系统开发人员，他们对通过信息学方法改善公共卫生监测的方法感兴趣。
本综述提供了中央癌症登记处的背景信息，并描述了为这些登记处标准化和自动化报告的努力。具体主题包括医生和病理报告的标准化数据交换活动、癌症报告的软件工具、用于处理非结构化临床文本的自然语言处理工具的开发以及癌症监测信息学的未来方向。
