Facility Information Profile System FIPS

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Facility Information Profile System(FIPS) CoC
Hospital Locator
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FIPS

• Background
• Launched in 1997
• Online as of September 2001
• Response to consumer trends in self-education
• Patients more involved in cancer care decisions
• Patients continue to seek facility-specific data

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FIPS User Access https//web.facs.org/datalinks

• Functionality
• Identified user
• Password-Protected
• Facility Users Include
• Cancer Registrars (2)
• Cancer Committee Chair
• Cancer Liaison Physician
• Additional Datalinks Users as identified by
  facility
• Limited Access Use
• CoC State Chairs
• CoC Surveyors
• ACS Regional Planners

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CoCDatalinks_at_facs.org
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Level I and Level II Data

• Level I Data
• Patient Resources and Services
• Facility completes
• Needs to be updated annually
• Automatically shared with ACS

• Level II Data
• Annual Cancer Caseload
• CoC posts to FIPS annually
• Facility must review and release annually
• Optional release to ACS

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FIPS Level I

• Resources and Services
• Types/Number of Oncology Specialists
• Diagnostic Imaging Services
• Medical Oncology Services
• Radiation Oncology Services
• Prevention and Early Detection
• Rehab and Supportive Care
• Research Activities

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FIPS Level II

• Annual Cancer Caseload
• Based on NCDB data submission
• Posted to FIPS as site by stage report
• Percentage distribution by cancer site
• Posted in first quarter each year
• Facility must review and release data each year
• Narrative section optional for facility to
  complete

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FIPSs Perks

• Updates posted on ACS web site within 24 hours
• Market your hospital by adding your URL
• Add ACS link to your facilitys web site
• Review Linking Policy guidelines at
  http//www.cancer.org/docroot/SU/content/SU_2_Link
  ing_Information.asp?siteareaSU

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FIPS-Public Access

• CoC Hospital Locator
• ACS web site www.cancer.org
• Search for cancer approved programs by
• Location
• Service
• ACSs National Cancer Information Center
• (800-ACS-2345)

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CoC Hospital Locator

• List of CoC approved programs in specified mile
  radius
• Contact information
• Link to facility map
• Number of beds
• Services available
• Hospital experience
• Affiliated campuses

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CoC Hospital Locator
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CoC Hospital Locator

• Appropriate disclaimers accompany data and
  information posted on www.cancer.org
• Consumers are encouraged to speak with healthcare
  providers to answer any questions regarding the
  data
• Link to Service Terminology Glossary provided

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How might the CoC Hospital Locator assist someone
with cancer?

• Is there a nearby hospital approved by the CoC?
• Does the hospital offer a specific type of
  treatment?
• Does the hospital participate in clinical trials?
• What supportive services does this facility
  offer?
• What percentage of all cancers treated at this
  facility were breast cancer?

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Benefits

• Free marketing tool
• Targeted referrals by ACS (NCIC operators)
• Increased visibility to cancer community
• Easily accessible listing of cancer services for
  your patients
• Annual cancer caseload data for interested public
• Direct access to facility website, map, location,
  etc.

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Quality Assurance

• Survey Application Record (SAR) now on-line
• Some information duplicative to FIPS, thus shared
  between the two applications
• 100 of facilities participating
• Annual call to update SAR information
• More current Level I data on ACS web site

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Facility Participation

• Total Approved Programs 1,393
• Level I participation 1,393 (100)
• Level II participation
• Accurate/Released 913 (66)
• Accurate/Do Not Release 86 (6)
• Inaccurate/Do Not Release 35 (3)
• Data Not Available 21 (2)
• Draft 338 (24)
• Data as of 2/07

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What we know about Level II

• Data are accurate, but facility has not released
• Potential data discrepancies - facility is
  working with staff to resolve issues
• Data not submitted to NCDB
• Data not reviewed (800 programs)

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Challenges to Level II Participation

• Smaller hospitals have smaller caseloads
• Creates competition among neighboring facilities
• Misinterpretation of the data being shared
• Not enough information/demands for data

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Increasing Level II Participation

• Clarification of Level II
• Notifications to CoC approved programs regarding
  posting and release of data
• Working with programs to release data to NCDB
• Free text section added to Site and Stage table
  to explain data
• Encouraging Cancer Liaison Physician and CoC
  State Chair outreach

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Opportunities

• Train
• Educate
• Present
• Dispel myths
• Share
• Review your mission

• Hospital Administration
• Cancer Committee
• Marketing Department

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Continuous Improvement

• Development of marketing pieces for facility use
• Changes to CoC Hospital Locator for public use
  and interpretation of information
• Plans to increase Level II participation
• Questions/Suggestions FIPS_at_facs.org

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• Thank you.