What Abstractors will love about SEERAbs

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What Abstractors will love about SEERAbs

•  Keyboard-friendly Abstract editor with

•  lookups

•  single field and inter-fields edits

•  next field auto-forwarding when max length is
  reached

•  auto-completion based on configurable word list

•  field documentation

•  inter-field triggers 

(if race1 set to 99 then set other races to 99)

•  Worklist

•  Abstractor's list of things to do

•  advanced search and sorting capabilities

•  can be customized for the registry

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What Abstractors will love about SEERAbs (con't)

•  Easy synchronization with Central Registry to

•  update Worklist

•  import Reference Data from data files or
  directly from the registry database

•  export abstracts and other records in files or
  upload the new records directly into the
  registry database

•  NAACCR, SEER and other coding manuals
  available within the application

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What IT staff will love about SEERAbs

•  Uses common configuration techniques (XML,
  Groovy) for

•  screen layouts in data entry

•  synchronization scripts

•  worklist layout

•  reference data search

•  Can be configured to create any record type (not
  only abstracts) and to extract those records
  using any file layout

•  Distributed with template scripts and layouts

•  Can be configured once and installed to many
  laptops

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What IT staff will love about SEERAbs (con't)

•  Default release contains, among other things,

•  NAACCR 11.3 layouts and corresponding scripts

•  official documentation for all NAACCR fields

•  SEER Edits package

•  Support for NAACCR 12 is on its way

• updated layout and scripts will support new key
  features

•  longer text fields

•  date flags

• collaborative stage extra input fields

•  NAACCR 12 layout/scripts will be available with
  version 2

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Timeline

•  limited release in May 2009

•  Hawaii Tumor Registry, Alaska Native Tumor
  Registry and the Cherokee Nation Cancer Program
  plan to begin using SEERAbs in production this
  year.

Manuals can be downloaded at
www.seer.cancer.gov/seerabs
Contact Information
seerabs_at_imsweb.com