EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT

The Coordinated Care Tracking System (CCTS) is an application designed to ensure timely and appropriate coordination of care through identification, tracking, and navigating Veterans at-risk or affected by cancer throughout the continuum of care from screening to survivorship.

Nicholas G. Little, PharmDPGY-2 Oncology Pharmacy ResidentSouthern Arizona VA Health Care SystemTucson, Arizona Introduction Over the last decade, the role of targeted therapy has played a key role in shaping clinical practice for many different malignancies. Despite being the most common cancer among men, there has been very little development of targeted therapy in prostate…

Hope Schenk, Pharm.D., BCOPClinical Pharmacy PractitionerVA National TeleOncology Hub Jackie Goettl, RN, MSN, OCNOncology Solution ExpertElectronic Health Record Modernization Integration Office (EHRM-IO)Department of Veterans Affairs In 2018, the VA began the monumental process of implementing a new electronic health record (EHR) through Cerner Corporation (purchased by Oracle in June 2022). This vendor was chosen due…

Malcolm Seth Bevel, PhD, MSPH, 1 Meng-Han Tsai, PhD, 1 , 2 April Parham, BS, TTS, 1 Sydney Elizabeth Andrzejak, MS, 1 Samantha Jones, PhD, 1 , 2 and Justin Xavier Moore, PhD, MPH   JAMA Oncol. 2023 Jul; 9(7): 909-916. Published online 2023 May 4. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.0634 Background Cancer is the second leading cause of death overall, behind heart disease, in the US, while it is third…