Registry Plus™ eMaRC Plus Features and Future Plans

Version 4.0.1 — New Features

Features

Version 4.0.1 offers improved filtering of non-reportable pathology reports, notably in the identification and filtering of non-melanoma skin cancers. After you have installed this version, please verify that "Make non-melanoma skin cancers non-reportable" is selected by opening the Administration menu and selecting System Configuration, then Reports Filtering and Autocoding.

1. New and improved autocoding of histology, behavior, and site during import, and improved coding suggestion suggestions for these data items during manual review. To enable auto-coding before importing, open the Administration menu and select System Configuration, then Reports Filtering and Autocoding. Check the Autocode histology and site during import checkbox.
2. Highlighting (in purple color) of site terms during manual review.
3. More efficient processing of reports during manual review, requiring fewer mouse clicks.
4. Improved searching of pathology reports across batches to find terms in text fields.
5. New status codes to indicate which reports were autocoded for histology, site, and behavior during import. Also a new status code identifies reports that contain no cancer terms; previously, such reports would have been included in non-reportables.
6. Granular access to functions by roles. Three system-defined roles exist: registrar, system administrator, and registry administrator.
   1. The registrar has access to all functions under the File menu.
   2. The system administrator has access to database and PHINMS settings in System Configuration.
   3. The registry administrator has access to all functions except the database and PHINMS settings.
   In addition to the above system-defined roles, new custom roles can be created and functions can be assigned to the user-created roles. Also, multiple roles can be assigned to one user. This functionality is available under the Administration menu, Manage Roles.
7. Support for two versions of HL7 ORU message: 2.3.1 and 2.5.1.
8. Support for 2.5.1 HL7 messages with eCC-encoded synoptic reports, with special display formatting of such reports in the manual review window. Autocoding of such reports will be implemented in a later version.
9. Capability to add custom data validation on individual HL7 data elements. This function is available under the Administration menu, Manage Data Validation.

Future Plans

• Add capability to suggest site and histology codes in the workbench screen.
• Add support for Sybase^® and Oracle^® databases.