DENVER, March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Based in Upstate New York, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is intensifying its efforts to increase lung cancer screenings in the greater Buffalo area by partnering with Denver-based Eon, a leading health-tech company, to leverage its proprietary artificial intelligence patient management software.
According to the American Lung Association, 44% of lung cancer cases are not caught until a late stage, when the survival rate is only 8%. In New York State, only 6% of people eligible are being screened for lung cancer, which is a simple low-dose CT exam, and can be crucial to early detection and treatment. In late 2022, Roswell Park launched an initiative to reduce barriers to care and reach more patients by deploying a lung screening program on wheels to provide greater access in both the rural and urban communities they serve. In leveraging Eon Patient Management (EPM) to longitudinally track and manage lung cancer screening patients, Roswell Park will be able to improve outcomes by ensuring more patients return for guideline-driven follow-up care.
Lung cancer screening can be laborious and time-consuming and often entails significant manual data entry. Eon’s lung cancer screening (LCS) patient management platform uses advanced AI to automate routine administrative tasks, without interrupting radiology workflows. Care teams are then able to focus on patients with significant findings while automating communication and follow-up care for low-risk patients. This not only improves patient care but will significantly broaden their LCS program’s bandwidth and increase patient adherence to annual screenings.
“Knowing that Eon’s lung cancer screening solution will allow us to enroll and screen more eligible patients, and hopefully catch cancer early, gave us the…
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