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Association for National Surgical Synoptic Reporting Standards |
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Association for National Surgical Synoptic Reporting Standards (ANSSRS) promotes the creation and adoption for standard synoptic reporting templates for surgery. While focusing primarily on cancer surgeries, ANSSRS looks to establish unified fields and sections for structured data capture to improve research, teaching, and patient care in all surgeries. ANSSRS members collaborate on creating and disseminating these surgical reporting templates in hopes that facilities, health systems, and even national health organizations will use them when recording their operative findings.
In other specialties, such as pathology and radiology, there exists organizations tasked with defining, implementing and promoting such standards to ensure report comprehensiveness and to improve what data is being captured. ANSSRS began when it became apparent that there was no one central source for standard surgical synoptic reporting. Creating a space for a community to organically collaborate on these standards, ANSSRS hopes to promote more complete operative reporting and efficient data querying through adoption of synoptic reporting standards.
ANSSRS is a not-for-profit organization that utilizes members of the Healthcare and Health IT communities to create, develop, and promote standards of reporting for surgery. Taking cues from other disciplines, such as radiology and pathology, ANSSRS hopes to identify the most important fields to capture in operative reporting to assist in patient care and medical research. ANSSRS also exists as a repository for the latest studies on synoptic reporting in medicine as well as other research detailing the current advances in medical documentation.
About mTuitive's role in ANSSRS: mTuitive is a privately owned company that works in healthcare reporting. However, mTuitive is not receiving any compensation or direct financial gain for ANSSRS. We have been champions for synoptic reporting for more than a decade. As a company, we believe that standardizing requirements improves reports, research, and patient care. And while there are multiple regional or facility-based requirements for surgical reporting, we'd like to see each nation establish its own surgical synoptic reporting standards for the benefit of its patients, health IT, and communities as a whole. mTuitive is merely providing a place for this discussion to occur and the technology with which to preview and test these standards.