Abstract: A system automatically, provides a clinician with cancer specific staging criteria in response to a user selected cancer diagnosis name, calculates a stage of the disease in response to selection of particular staging criteria and associates treatments and clinical documentation with the cancer diagnosis and stage. A disease management information system includes a repository of information associating a combination of multiple disease progression indicators of a particular disease with an indicator identifying a particular stage of the particular disease. A data processor uses the repository in automatically determining a stage of a disease in a particular patient in response to receiving data identifying multiple disease progression indicators of the particular patient. The data processor stores data identifying the disease stage in a record associated with the particular patient for access by multiple healthcare workers at different locations.

Abstract: A system allows healthcare personnel to automatically associate patient related activities to an appropriate consent form and track the status of consent forms electronically. A consent information management system suitable for healthcare use, comprises at least one repository associating consent information of a particular patient with data identifying, a corresponding particular treatment provided to the particular patient and signatures validating consent obtained from the particular patient and other persons. A consent data processor uses the at least one repository and determines signatures required for a particular consent for providing a particular treatment to a particular patient are obtained.