President’s Cancer Panel Priorities and Recommendations
Priority/Recommendation |
Responsible Stakeholder(s) |
|---|---|
| Priority 1: Use Technology to Support Navigation Activities to Achieve Equitable Outcomes for People with Cancer | |
| Recommendation 1.1: Develop and implement tools that facilitate efficient, patient-centered coordination of cancer care. |
Healthcare organizations EHR vendors |
| Recommendation 1.2: Develop and implement technologies to help navigators connect cancer patients with organizational and local resources. |
Healthcare organizations EHR vendors |
| Recommendation 1.3: Develop and implement tools that provide vetted, personalized cancer-related information for patients and caregivers. |
Technology developers Advocacy organizations Research funding organizations |
| Priority 2: Ensure Equitable Patient Access to Technology That Supports Cancer Navigation | |
| Recommendation 2.1: Provide sustainable funding for federal programs that facilitate access to broadband internet. |
U.S. Congress President |
| Recommendation 2.2: Increase patient access to devices and private space through community sites to facilitate access to telehealth appointments. |
State and local governments Network of the National Library of Medicine |
| Priority 3: Promote Responsible Development and Use of Technology to Support Navigation | |
| Recommendation 3.1: Adhere to core principles for responsible development and use of technologies that support cancer patient navigation. |
Technology developers Healthcare organizations and providers Research funding organizations |
| Recommendation 3.2: Support research to ensure that technology to support navigation achieves its goals. |
Research funding organizations (e.g., NIH, ACS, AHRQ) |
| Recommendation 3.3: Incorporate technology knowledge and skills into patient navigator training and core competencies. |
Navigation training programs National Navigation Roundtable Professional Oncology Navigation Task Force |
| Priority 4: Maintain Privacy and Security While Facilitating Data Sharing to Support Cancer Patient Navigation | |
| Recommendation 4.1: Improve and incentivize interoperability to enable portability of patient data across health IT platforms and systems in order to improve navigation. |
Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Healthcare organizations and providers |
| Recommendation 4.2: Evaluate existing privacy and security regulations and laws and identify opportunities for a national legal framework to protect patients while fostering technological innovation to support patient navigation. |
U.S. Congress National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |