The Nuts and Bolts of Interoperability (2025)
Karen Mason, NCRA’s Education Committee Chair, will provide an overview of the national collective work being done around data interoperability within the cancer surveillance community. She will begin the webinar by outlining what interoperability means, how it is used, and the vital role it will play in cancer data and surveillance. Interoperability is dependent on structured data rather than narrative dialogue in EHRs and this important difference will be discussed in the construct of automating cancer registry data. Mason will be joined by Jennifer Brown, BS, ODS, a member of NCRA’s Informatics Committee, to discuss what hospitals have done or need to do to accomplish data interoperability across EHRs.
Learning objectives:
- Describe what data interoperability is and how reliant it is on structured data.
- Discuss differences between structured data and narrative text or dialogues.
- Explain why structured data matters within every hospital’s EHR and its impact on data sharing.
- Outline details about the federal initiative driving data interoperability and data sharing and Mason’s work as an NCRA volunteer as part of this effort.
- Provide an opportunity for attendees to participate in Q&A and share the registrar’s perspective of structured data within the EHR.
Credit Information
| Activity Number | Credit Amount | Accreditation Period |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-104 | 1 CE | July 01, 2025 - June 24, 2027 |