{"id":3632,"date":"2016-07-21T08:31:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2016-07-21T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:31:04","slug":"tracking-cancer-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Cancer In Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Anna Gorman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>California is overhauling the way it collects information for its massive cancer database in the hope of improving how patients are treated for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Pathologists at a dozen hospitals in the state are part of a pilot project \u2014\u00a0the first of its kind in the United States \u2014\u00a0in which they are reporting cancer diagnoses in close to real-time to the California Cancer Registry. And they are using standardized electronic forms to make their reporting more consistent and accurate. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/tracking-cancer-in-real-time\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31926900&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8JSUX3y0VORxT9XT7Soj7sY5_HGk0bBNN8V231Lf08GUwcDSMl8Yz2njS7DMj1mZk7F2O4SCnqscNr8npOmWeGUpcTRA&amp;_hsmi=31926900\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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