IMPAC Quarterly February 2007    
 
IMPAC Quarterly (im-pak kwor-ter-lee) n. 1. an electronic communication that brings together the IMPAC community every three months 2. an opportunity for current and soon-to-be IMPAC users to see highlights of exciting updates to www.impac.com 3. a premier eNewsletter for a community of cancer treatment innovators who help IMPAC continue to drive the next dimension of oncology management. syn. IQ

 
 
 
upcoming events

A partial listing of IMPAC’s Cancer Registry Events is listed below. To view all other events, please go to:
http://www.impac.com/company/events/show_list.html
 April 22, 2007
2007 IMPAC's Cancer Registry Users Conference

Hilton Las Vegas Hotel,
Las Vegas, NV
June 2-9, 2007
NACCR
Detroit, MI

Date Pending
NAACR User Luncheon

April 22-25, 2007
NCRA
Hilton Las Vegas Hotel,
Las Vegas, NV

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October 3-6, 2007
ACCCC - Association of Community Cancer Centers-Economics Conference, Dallas, TX

 
 
announcements
  We’re Moving
March 1, 2007, IMPAC corporate headquarters will be moving to its new location in Sunnyvale, CA.

All operations from the current Mountain View and San Jose offices will be combined in the new facility.

Our new corporate contact information is:
IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc.
100 Mathilda Place, Fifth Floor
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone: (408) 830-8000
Fax: (408) 830-8003

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IMPAC Customers Host Distinguished Guests from National Cancer Center of Japan’s Cancer Surveillance Section

 

Celebrated Scientists Tour Four Nevada-based Cancer Registries that Demonstrate Cancer Registry Management Systems Integration in a Variety of Settings

 

Las Vegas, NV,  December 13, 2006 –  IMPAC Medical Systems, Inc., an Elekta company, sent a delegation from the IMPAC Cancer Registry business unit to accompany distinguished guests, Yuka Hirabayashi, RN, PHN PhD and Hiroshi Nishimoto, MD of National Cancer Center of Japan (NCC) as four IMPAC customers hosted site visits in Las Vegas this past December. Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI), Nevada Central Registry, Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (Sunrise), and University Medical Center (University) served as exemplary cases of IMPAC’s Cancer Registry Systems’ effective integration with state central registries, pathology laboratories, private health networks and public university cancer programs, respectively. Witnessing such a variety of configurations was imperative to Drs. Hirabayashi’s and Nishimoto’s core responsibilities at NCC, where their Cancer Surveillance Section will influence the standardization of cancer registries in Japan.



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-Continued from IMPAC Customers Host Distinguished Guests from NCC...

In fact, the NCC Cancer Surveillance Section manages the hospital-based cancer registry in the NCC Hospital, as well as the nationwide registry for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) as a collaborative project of the Japanese Research Society for Cancer of Colon and Rectum. The Cancer Surveillance Section also leads surveillance activities such as providing a descriptive analysis of cancer mortality trends in the "Cancer Statistics Digest" section of every issue of the Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology. With such a scope of service to Japan’s cancer registry and research programs, Dr.s Hirabayashi and Nishimoto benefited greatly from seeing a similarly broad array of cancer registry software implementations in IMPAC customer sites.
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Registrar of the Year - 2007
We are now accepting nominations for the IMPAC ‘Registrar of the Year’ to be honored during National Cancer Registrar’s Week. Please submit the following form to nominate yourself or a colleague for consideration.

The deadline for nominations is Monday, March 26, 2007. For more information, contact the prgram administrator, Clarisse Balistreri, for additional information.

 
customer profiles
 
 
Pennington Cancer Center at Baton Rouge General Medical Center

Baton Rouge, LA

A 488-bed multi-site hospital with leading edge cancer program finds ACOS compliance and easier patient follow-up with IMPAC Cancer Registry System

Challenge: To improve cancer program compliance with cancer patient follow-up.

Solution: Integrated the hospital’s, radiation oncology delivery system and IMPAC’s Radiation Oncology EMR with IMPAC’s Cancer Registry system, which offers registrars real-time SSDI database updates during abstracting and follow-up.

Results: Maintained American College of Surgeons (ACoS) accreditation annually; maintaining a 90 – 94% follow-up rate. 

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