2017 AAPM Annual Meeting
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Session Title: Electronic Charting in Radiation Oncology and Integration with Hospital EMR
Question 1: Which does not describe the acceptance test of RO-EMR?
Reference:INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION, Medical Electrical Equipment — Safety of Radiotherapy Record and Verify Systems, Report IEC 62274 ed.1.0, IEC, Geneva (2005).
Choice A:Protection against unauthorized use.
Choice B:Date and time.
Choice C:Human errors in software design.
Choice D:Deleting and editing data.
Question 2: According to the article “Quality Control Quantification” by Ford et al, which quality control check is the most effective individual check?
Reference:Ford EC, Terezakis S, Souranis A, Harris K, Gay H, Mutic S. Quality control quantification (QCQ): a tool to measure the value of quality control checks in radiation oncology. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012;84(3):e263–e269.
Choice A:Chart rounds.
Choice B:Pretreatment IMRT QA.
Choice C:Physics pretreatment plan review.
Choice D:SSD check.
Question 3: Which of the following is NOT a characteristic or recommendation concerning electronic checklists as per Medical Physics Practice Guideline 4.a : “Development, implementation, use and maintenance of safety checklists”?
Reference:Fong de Los Santos, L.E., et al., Medical Physics Practice Guideline 4.a: Development, implementation, use and maintenance of safety checklists. J Appl Clin Med Phys, 2015. 16(3): p. 5431.
Choice A:Electronic interlocks that require checklist completion before treatment can provide an advantage over using paper.
Choice B:One can perform quick conformance audits with electronic checklists.
Choice C:Electronic checklists should not be used in time-critical procedures.
Choice D:Electronic checklists can potentially tie a user to a computer terminal.
Question 4: Medical Physicists should partner with equipment service engineers, vendors, RO IT staff and hospital or clinic IT staff on the IT Infrastructure and Data Management of the RO e-chart environment (True or False?)
Reference:• Siochi, R.A., et al., Information technology resource management in radiation oncology. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, 2009. 10(4): p. 16-35. • Siochi, R.A.C., C.D. Brack, and C.G. Orton, The Chief Information Technology Officer in a Radiation Oncology department should be a medical physicist. Medical Physics, 2009. 36(9): p. 3863-3865.
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 5: Prouty et al. identified the roles the providers and their colleagues play in communication breakdowns in cancer care. Which one of the below was included in their study:
Reference:Prouty CD, Mazor KM, Greene SM, Roblin DW, Firneno CL, Lemay CA, Robinson BE, Gallagher TH. Providers' perceptions of communication breakdowns in cancer care. J Gen Intern Med. 2014 Aug;29(8):1122-30. doi: 10.1007/s11606-014-2769-1
Choice A:Providers may deliver inaccurate, insufficient, or incomplete information.
Choice B:Poor information exchange among providers.
Choice C:Lack of clarity about treatment protocols and responsibilities amongst providers.
Choice D:All of the above.
Question 6: Which of the following benefits were not included in the brief opinion of Russo regarding the radiation oncology and hospital EMR integration:
Reference:Russo GA When Electronic Health Records (EHRs) Talk, Everyone Can Win: Our Experience Creating a Software Link Between Hospital and Radiation Oncology EHRs. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2016 Jan 1;94(1):206-7. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2015.09.012. Epub 2015 Sep 18.
Choice A:Radiation oncology treatment data would be a permanent part of the health record in a common database.
Choice B:The need to copy/paste data between systems is eliminated.
Choice C:Treatment planning would be more accurate.
Choice D:Radiation oncology data would be available in real time in Epic. Other oncology providers could know treatment progress continuously.
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