Cancer Information Management - Eastern Iowa Community College District

Cancer Information Management from Eastern Iowa Community College District is a Campus Associate Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Cancer Information Management prepares you for a career working in hospital-based cancer registries or population-based, central registries. Cancer registration is the basic method by which information about the incidence, type, extent of disease at time of diagnosis, treatment methods used and survival of patients with cancer is systematically collected. Cancer registrars play an important role in the fight against cancer. Cancer registry professionals are required to collect, analyze, and disseminate cancer data. Specific duties include: Identifying reportable cancers. Abstracting patient cancer data from patient records , pathology, radiology and other reports. Coding and staging primary site, histology and extent of disease. Monitoring timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of cancer data. Performing cancer patient follow-up activities to identify second primaries, recurrences and spread of disease. Reporting cancer data to health care officials, hospital administrators , physician regulatory agencies for use in cancer prevention and control. Assisting medical staff and epidemiologists in special studies and research. Supervising staff. Assuring patient privacy and data integrity and security. Major areas of study in this program are medical terminology, anatomy/physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, computer principles anddata presentation methods, statistics and epidemiology, registry organization & operations, data abstracting principles, oncology coding and staging fundamentals, legal and ethical issues, and quality management principles. View more details on Eastern Iowa Community College District . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.