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Central Cancer Registry
Cancer registries often rely on pathology laboratories to report certain findings to registry officials. In the past, these reports were handwritten or printed in a format unique to each laboratory and mailed to the NC CCR. NPCR-AERRO initiated the electronic pathology laboratory (ePath) reporting project to facilitate electronic reporting of anatomic pathology reports from national and regional laboratories to the state cancer registries. NC CCR implemented ePath reporting in June 2008. Effective October 1, 2014, legislation mandates electronic reporting to the NC CCR and paper reports are no longer accepted.
The goal of this project is to develop standardized electronic pathology laboratory reporting. The ePath Project allows the cancer registry to electronically process, filter, auto-encode, and auto-populate cancer data into abstract form. Through this project, the CCR will be able to increase the spectrum of data elements for North Carolina cancer surveillance in an efficient and cost-effective way.
ePath reporting is the most efficient method for ascertaining cases from pathology laboratories, where the laboratories have the capability to report and the registries have the capability to receive electronic data streams. Reportable diagnoses made in the pathology laboratories can be transmitted to the CCR in a near real-time basis, and incident cases can be made immediately available for analysis.
The NC CCR supports the following data transmission methods for ePath reporting:
SFTP – SSH File Transfer Protocol for uploading pathology laboratory electronic reports. Access request forms and other instructions are provided to the lab to create logins on the SFTP forms via email.
PHINMS – Public Health Information Network Messaging System is a CDC developed software to facilitate secure data transmission. More information will be provided upon completing on-boarding process. Click here for more information from CDC on PHINMS.
ePath Coordinator
Sumana Nagaraj
Phone: 984-236-7427
Email