Implementation of practice guidelines.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center staff, in conjunction with Cambridge Technology Partners, has designed, developed, and begun to implement a disease management system (DMS) as a means of standardizing the care of the center's patients with cancer. The disease management system is centrally coordinated through disease management teams, which include physicians from each of the major oncology disciplines--radiation, medicine, and surgery--as well as specialists and other professionals involved in patient care. The system is comprised of four modules: system administration, treatment pathways, patient management, and outcomes analysis. In July 1966, the gynecology team began to pilot this program, and the remaining 16 disease management teams were incorporated, in phases, during the rest of 1996. The regional sites are being incorporated in 1997. After a brief summaryRobert B. Haase’s public speaking career was temporarily derailed when he was told he would lose half of his tongue to save his life. On October 3, 2013, Robert had his 13th tongue cancer surgery, known as a "hemiglossectomy", removing the entire left half of his tongue. Robert is currently working on his upcoming book, Run Through the Fire.
Robert is available for public speaking engagements and can be contacted by email or at his office: 360-918-8700.

Friday, October 3, 2014

Today marks the one-year anniversary of having 1/2 half of my tongue removed and being told for the 11th time that I was "cancer free" (twice they couldn't get it all.) I have endured more than I could have imagined in the past 12-months, but rather than remember the hard