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November 2022

Final Updates from 2021 Survivor Circle Grants Awardees

Posted: November 23, 2022

Final report on how two Chicago-area organizations, the Cancer Support Center and LivingWell Cancer Resource Center, multiplied their impact this past year as a result of receiving the 2021 Survivor Circle grant.

CMMI Issues Update to Strategy Refresh with Specialty Care Integration Focus

Posted: November 16, 2022

On November 7, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) issued Person-Centered Innovation – An Update on the Implementation of the CMS Innovation Center’s Strategy. The “update” report builds on the October 2021 Innovation Center Strategy Refresh document.

Updates from the CodeX Initiative

Posted: November 2, 2022

Four years ago, ASTRO realized it was time to tackle the issue of access and availability of radiation oncology clinical data. The 2018 publication of the Minimum Data Elements for Radiation Oncology (MDE) was ASTRO’s first step in a Herculean effort toward easing the daily burden of practices. During the development of MDE, ASTRO took a calculated leap of faith and joined the Common Oncology Data Elements eXtension (CodeX) initiative during its early days.

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