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Zynx Health Partners with National Comprehensive Cancer Network

• Posted June 26th 2008
• by Marji

Zynx Health, which provides evidence-based clinical decision support to the medical community, has partnered with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) to provide NCCN chemotherapy templates to users of the Zynx OncologyCare product. (Zynx is a subsidiary of Hearst Corp.)

The NCCN is an alliance of 21 of the nation’s leading cancer centers and it provides information to both patients and healthcare professionals regarding cancer care. The development of NCCN information is based on the independent evaluation of available scientific evidence integrated with the judgment of leading clinicians. The chemotherapy templates that will be available through Zynx OncologyCare will be based on the Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, a widely used oncology information source in the U.S.

Zynx OncologyCare users will also gain access to AuthorSpace, Zynx’s online tool that can customize, manage and integrate clinical content. The NCCN templates will be pre-built and updated in AuthorSpace, enabling users one online location in which to review, edit and maintain local templates. Newly customized templates can then be integrated into the clinician’s workflow on paper, as HTML files or by exporting them into a clinical information system.

Zynx Health should be an ideal partner for the NCCN as the alliance continues its goal to the quality of care patients with cancer receive as it helps increase the profile and use of the chemotherapy templates. Improving patient care is, and should be, top-of-mind for such organizations. This alliance serves to emphasize the commitment both entities have to achieve that goal.

At the same time, enabling users of Zynx OncologyCare access to AuthorSpace is also a very important development as it makes the content added into the templates more usable and accessible. Allowing them to be integrated into the clinician’s workflow is a vital function. It’s already a popular one. According to the company, most of Zynx’s more than 1,400 hospital clients already use AuthorSpace to customize and maintain evidence-based order sets and interdisciplinary plans of care.