NCRA's Data Management Badge
Issued by
National Cancer Registrars Association
Earners of the NCRA Data Management Badge have completed a comprehensive program designed to increase understanding of cancer registry data and its use with a focus on ensuring data quality and highlighting critical aspects of data reporting.
- Type Learning
- Level Intermediate
- Time Hours
- Cost Paid
Skills
- Define informatics and review its impact in the cancer registries.
- Define public health and epidemiology.
- Define the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI).
- Describe national quality-related organizations involved in developing care guidelines, quality measures, and consensus statements and how cancer registry data is utilized.
- Examine a Cancer Quality Improvement Program (CQIP) Report with live data.
- Examine best practices for managing data requests.
- Examine ways to ensure data accuracy.
- Examine who, what, when, and how data should be submitted.
- Explore how completeness adds to data quality of the registries.
- Explore how major organizations use registry data in cancer prevention, control, and reporting.
- Identify ways to embrace informatics in the cancer registry.
- Observe how data is submitted to a central registry.
- Outline key concepts, such as Health Level Seven (HL7), Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), and Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Present important concepts for maintaining the database.
- Review hardware and software considerations.
- Review key terminology related to databases and database management.
- Review the Commission on Cancer’s (CoC) Quality Measures.
- Review the history of cancer reporting.
- Review the importance of Institutional Review Boards (IRB), confidentiality, and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
- Review the meaning of timeliness in relationship to cancer registries.
- Review the value of cancer registry data to public health.
- Understand the difference between Operational and Research requests.
- Understand workflow management and its importance in cancer registry data.
Earning Criteria
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Required to pass each of the eight module assessments with a score of 80% or higher.