Louisiana SR181: HEALTH CARE: Requests the Department of Health to establish the Louisiana Tumor Registry Expansion and Data Modernization Task Force.

What the bill says

A resolution To urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health to establish the Tumor Registry Expansion and Data Modernization Task Force to study and develop recommendations for expanding and modernizing the Louisiana Tumor Registry through enhanced electronic health record interoperability, real-time cancer surveillance capabilities, expanded cancer-related data collection, and statewide collaboration among healthcare organizations.

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A RESOLUTION To urge and request the Louisiana Department of Health to establish the Tumor Registry Expansion and Data Modernization Task Force to study and develop recommendations for expanding and modernizing the Louisiana Tumor Registry through enhanced electronic health record interoperability, real-time cancer surveillance capabilities, expanded cancer-related data collection, and statewide collaboration among healthcare organizations. WHEREAS, the Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) is the legislatively-mandated, statewide, population-based cancer registry responsible for collecting data on all cancer patients diagnosed in Louisiana; and WHEREAS, the LTR currently captures more than twenty-eight thousand cancer cases annually and covers all sixty-four parishes of the state; and WHEREAS, the LTR has achieved national recognition through National Cancer Institute Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program honors, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries Gold Certification, and designation as a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Registry of Excellence; and WHEREAS, timely, comprehensive, and actionable cancer data is essential to improving cancer prevention, treatment, survivorship, population health outcomes, Page 1 of SLS 26RS-4321 ORIGINAL SR NO. healthcare access, research initiatives, and health equity efforts throughout Louisiana; and WHEREAS, current cancer data collection remains heavily dependent upon manual abstraction methods that require significant time and workforce resources and often results in delays of two to three years before complete statewide data is available; and WHEREAS, expanded and real-time …

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