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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

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