Becker's Hospital Review

72 CMO / CARE DELIVERY Intermountain, Stanford, Providence Form 79-Hospital Alliance to Share Cancer Data By Mackenzie Bean T hree healthcare powerhouses joined forces with a precision medicine firm June 2 in an initiative to advance cancer care through data sharing and increased access to clinical trials. Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, Stanford (Calif.) Cancer Institute, Renton, Wash.-based Providence Health & Services and precision medicine firm Syapse in Palo Alto, Calif., partnered to form the Oncology Precision Network. The hub will share aggregated clinical, molecular and treatment data through an advanced software platform. The collaboration aims to find breakthroughs in cancer care by leveraging previously untapped cancer data while preserving privacy, security and data rights. Each healthcare organization in the consortium was individually storing valuable information regarding patients' health history, cancer status, lab, molecular and genetic data and treatments. Collectively, the OPN will link aggregated data between the geographically disparate health systems, increasing interoperability of data sharing to provide physicians with previously unavailable information. "By aggregating all of our real patient experiences, we will rapidly expand our ability to learn how to choose the best targeted treatments for our cancer patients based on the molecular profile of their tumor and our informatics based research," said Jim Ford, MD, associate professor of Medicine and Genetics at Stanford and director of Clinical Cancer Genomics at the Stanford Cancer Institute. The OPN contains data and physicians from 11 states, 79 hospitals and 800 clinics. The group hopes to include other health systems later in the year. n 50 States Ranked by the Share of Adults Who Went a Year Without Visiting a Physician By Mackenzie Bean H ere is a ranking of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., by the percentage of adults who did not see or talk to a general physician in 12 months. is list is based on data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Center for Health Statistics. e percentage of adults who did not visit a general physician in the 12 months from 2013-14 ranges from 15.9 percent in Vermont to 48.1 percent in Montana. e national average was 34.0 percent. State-level differences in the percentage of uninsured Americans may affect healthcare access and utilization. For example, the percentage of adults who did not see a general physician within 12 months was lower in states with partnership marketplaces as opposed to Federally Facilitated Marketplace states. Estimates are based on the 2014 National Health interview survey, a nationally representative sample of the noninstitutionalized U.S. population between the ages of 18 and 64. 1. Vermont – 15.9 percent 2. Delaware – 18.4 percent 3. Virginia – 23.9 percent 4. Pennsylvania – 26.4 percent 5. Michigan – 27.2 percent 6. Wisconsin – 27.4 percent 7. New Hampshire – 27.6 percent 8. North Dakota – 27.7 percent 9. Oklahoma – 28.3 percent 10. Rhode Island – 28.5 percent 10. Massachusetts – 28.5 percent 12. Tennessee – 29.1 percent 13. Ohio – 29.3 percent 14. Iowa – 29.4 percent 15. Connecticut – 29.6 percent 16. District of Columbia – 30.3 percent 17. Maryland – 30.6 percent 18. New York – 31.0 percent 19. Alabama – 31.1 percent 20. Maine – 31.2 percent 21. Kentucky – 31.9 percent 22. Missouri – 32.8 percent 23. Illinois – 32.9 percent 24. Arkansas – 33.2 percent 25. Oregon – 33.5 percent 26. Minnesota – 33.7 percent 27. New Jersey – 34.7 percent 28. Indiana – 35.6 percent 29. Kansas – 36.0 percent 29. West Virginia – 36.0 percent 31. Louisiana – 36.5 percent 32. Washington – 36.7 percent 32. California – 36.7 percent 34. North Carolina – 37.4 percent 35. Florida – 37.7 percent 36. Colorado – 37.9 percent 37. Arizona – 38.6 percent 37. Georgia – 38.6 percent 37. Texas – 38.6 percent 40. Hawaii – 39.0 percent 40. Wyoming – 39.0 percent 42. Mississippi – 39.3 percent 43. Utah – 39.3 percent 44. Nebraska – 40.4 percent 45. Idaho – 41.5 percent 45. South Carolina - 41.5 percent 47. New Mexico – 41.7 percent 48. Nevada – 43.7 percent 49. Alaska – 45.8 percent 50. South Dakota – 47.7 percent 51. Montana – 48.1 percent n

• Cover