Oncora Medical, a precision radiation oncology software company, and MD Anderson Cancer Center announced a strategic alliance focusing on building the next generation of precision medicine software for radiation oncology.
During phase I, MD Anderson oncologists and information technology professionals will work with Oncora’s team of data scientists and engineers to install Oncora’s Precision Radiation Oncology Platform, a software system built to assist radiation oncologists in the development of personalized treatment plans based on outcome predictions.
Oncora’s platform will be fueled by data from MD Anderson’s electronic medical record system, tumor registry, radiation therapy planning system, and Brocade, an innovative software product developed by MD Anderson in 2014. Brocade was developed by Benjamin Smith, associate professor of radiation oncology, and author of a study published in the April 2016 issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology that demonstrated a 70 percent reduction in the time physicians spend documenting clinical data using Brocade.
Brocade, a web-based clinical documentation tool used by MD Anderson radiation oncologists, enables intuitive collection of structured data about patient diagnosis, treatment and radiation side effects, and generates narrative-style clinical documentation for medical records. Oncora will engineer complete interoperability between their Precision Radiation Oncology Platform and Brocade to explore the potential value of a combined product.
