ACCCBUZZ BLOG

ACCC recognizes April as National Cancer Prevention and Early Detection Month.

Vickie Yattaw, RN, OCN, oncology education and support services manager at the C.R. Wood Cancer Center, shares insights on a recent annual oral health screening event.

ACCCBuzz engaged in a discussion Josiah Allen, PharmD, a clinical pharmacogenomic pharmacist and Jake Barnes, an IS application manager, both from St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky, focused on the obstacles encountered in integrating a biomarker testing add-on module in their EHR.

Explore findings from a multi-stakeholder collaboration aimed at exploring clinical meaningfulness in comprehensive care delivery for patients with metastatic breast cancer.

Explore key takeaways from a meeting between ACCC, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, and delegates from the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.

Discover the mission of Unite for HER—a national nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the health and well-being of those affected by breast and ovarian cancers.

Highlights from the final day of the ACCC 50th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit (#AMCCBS).

Highlights from the second day of the ACCC 50th Annual Meeting & Cancer Center Business Summit (#AMCCBS).

To kick-off #AMCCBS, ACCC members traveled to Capitol Hill for the association’s first in-person Hill Day since 2019.

ACCCBuzz spoke with the co-directors of a precision medicine Initiative at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania about their work in building a team to champion EHR integration to support precision medicine.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the CMS Interoperabil­ity and Prior Authorization Final Rule, establishing requirements for certain payers to streamline the prior authorization process.

An overview of the modern health care workforce reveals a concerning disparity in the amount of African American medical professionals.

Discover recommendations for cancer care providers to improve care quality and outcomes for patients with acute myeloid leukemia who do not receive a transplant.

Modern Healthcare's latest symposium on social drivers of health, gathered industry leaders to develop practical strategies for the promotion of health equity initiatives.

BeiGene hosted its second annual Talk About It: Cancer and Mental Health LinkedIn Live event. This year’s theme focused on bridging cancer centers and community partners to help meet acute needs.

Evaluate recommendations on improving clinical trial diversity among patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

In recognition of January as Cervical Health Awareness Month, ACCCBuzz highlights cervical cancer among the American Indian and Alaska Native population.

This is the second post of a three-part series on Modern Healthcare’s Social Determinants of Health Symposium.

This is the second blog post is on the NCCN Patient Advocacy Summit: Navigating the Care Continuum from Screening Through Survivorship.

Sutter Health details innovative programs designed to drive health equity at the most recent Modern Healthcare Social Determinants of Health Symposium.

For their final policy summit of 2023, the NCCN invited multidisciplinary stakeholders to Washington D.C. for a discussion focused on patients with cancer receiving comprehensive and equitable care.

ACCC, ACS CAN, and LUNGevity, launched a series of focus groups earlier this year aimed at making the case for increasing access to comprehensive genomic profiling for Medicaid beneficiaries.

ACCC has developed an initiative to support health care providers in applying evidence-based treatment selection for patients with advanced/metastatic gastric cancer. Learn more.

ACCC and Let's Win Pancreatic Cancer recognize November as pancreatic cancer awareness month.

At the ACCC 40th NOC, an exclusive EHR Working Summit was held to understand and explore effective practices/workaround solutions for streamlined biomarker test ordering and results management.

ACCC's Improving Care Coordination Model can lead to improved care and treatment outcomes for patients with lung cancer.

As CAR T-cell therapies provide new treatment options for patients with certain hematologic malignancies, it is important that more cancer centers and programs deliver them.

Major takeaways from the NCCN Oncology Policy Summit in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, September 12.

ACCCBuzz spoke with Scout, PhD, MA and Al Asante PA-C, MBA, ACP about their work on an innovative educational series that teaches providers how to deliver equitable gynecologic cancer care to transgender and gender non-conforming patients.

Equitable access to precision medicine should be a right to which all patients with cancer are entitled regardless of their insurance coverage or type. Read more about ACCC’s efforts to help Medicaid beneficiaries overcome financial barriers to biomarker testing.