Pathways

Washington, DC—The establishment of pathways in oncology can reduce care variation and enhance value in patient care, said Michael Kolodziej, MD, ­National Medical Director, Oncology Solutions, Aetna, at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care.
Read Article

Washington, DC—The institution of cancer treatment pathways is not incompatible with personalized medicine, but rather it has the potential to offer access to a rapid learning system that can promote personalized therapy, said Michael Kolodziej, MD, National Medical Director, Oncology Solutions, Aetna, at the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care.
Read Article

Chicago, IL—The implementation of collaborative, secondary clinical pathway programs can improve outcomes and can lower costs when providers are already participating in another payer-sponsored pathway program. This conclusion comes from a study published online in conjunction with the 2014 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
Read Article

Cancer Care Pathways
Listen as Dr. Mark Kransa explain why the use of cancer care pathways is a method of dimishing the variance in cancer care in chemotherapy infusion and radiation therapy.
Read Article

San Francisco, CA—Many molecularly targeted agents that inhibit different pathways of hepatocarcinogenesis are under development, and novel targets are being assessed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), said Andrew X. Zhu, MD, PhD, Director, Liver Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, at the 2014 Gastro­intestinal Cancers Symposium.
Read Article

San Diego, CA—The use of virtual patient vignettes to improve adherence to a breast cancer clinical pathway identified correctable variances from a breast cancer clinical pathway with the potential to reduce the cost of care by several million dollars, according to the results of a pilot study reported at the 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology Quality Care Symposium.
Read Article

Pathways continue to be refined toward value-based care, adapting to the challenges of a rapidly shifting oncology landscape, as 2 speakers at the Third Annual Conference of the Association for Value-Based Cancer Care described.
Read Article

Evaluation of a regional payer-based pay-for-quality (P4Q)oncology program showed thatPathways programs can greatly reduce the cost of cancer care by slowingthe growth rate of both drug andnondrug expenses.
Read Article