What Abstractors will love about SEER*Abs  Keyboard-friendly Abstract editor with  lookups  single field and inter-fields edits  next field auto-forwarding when max length is reached  auto-completion based on configurable word list  field documentation  inter-field triggers  (if race1 set to 99 then set other races to 99)  Worklist  Abstractor's list of things to do  advanced search and sorting capabilities  can be customized for the registry

What Abstractors will love about SEER*Abs (con't)  Easy synchronization with Central Registry to  update Worklist  import Reference Data from data files or directly  from the registry database  export abstracts and other records in files or upload  the new records directly into the registry database  NAACCR, SEER and other coding manuals available  within the application

What IT staff will love about SEER*Abs  Uses common configuration techniques (XML, Groovy) for  screen layouts in data entry  synchronization scripts  worklist layout  reference data search  Can be configured to create any record type (not only  abstracts) and to extract those records using any file layout  Distributed with template scripts and layouts  Can be configured once and installed to many laptops

What IT staff will love about SEER*Abs (con't)  Default release contains, among other things,  NAACCR 11.3 layouts and corresponding scripts  official documentation for all NAACCR fields  SEER Edits package  Support for NAACCR 12 is on its way: updated layout and scripts will support new key features:  longer text fields  date flags collaborative stage extra input fields  NAACCR 12 layout/scripts will be available with version 2

Manuals can be downloaded at Timeline  limited release in May 2009  Hawaii Tumor Registry, Alaska Native Tumor Registry and  the Cherokee Nation Cancer Program plan to begin using  SEER*Abs in production this year. Manuals can be downloaded at www.seer.cancer.gov/seerabs Contact Information seerabs@imsweb.com