Becker's Healthcare March 3, 2025
In the ever-evolving clinical landscape, hospitals and health systems are consistently challenged with creating new and effective ways to care for cancer patients.
From robotics to text messaging, here are five ways health systems have improved cancer care:
- Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center saved its cancer patients more than 60 minutes per visit when text messaging was offered as an alternative to in-person immunotherapy check-ins.
- Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center freed up operating rooms at its main campus by opening the Northwest Houston Surgical and Specialty Care facility in 2023. Patients can undergo outpatient procedures and surgeries at the center, eliminating the need to be admitted to the hospital. The center performed 1,450 surgeries...