Answer Choices –	Responses –
– 100%	22.22% 16
– 90% - 99%	36.11% 26
– 80% - 89%	11.11% 8
– 50% 0 79%	15.28% 11
– 0% - 49%	13.89% 10
– Responses Other (please specify)	1.39% 1
TOTAL	72

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Which team members use paper based elements?

Answered: 69
Skipped: 3

PhysiciansPhysicistsDosimetristsTherapistsNursesFront Desk

Other (please

specify)

Answer Choices –	Responses –
– Physicians	72.46% 50
– Physicists	50.72% 35
– Dosimetrists	42.03% 29
– Therapists	63.77% 44
– Nurses	63.77% 44
– Front Desk	65.22% 45
– Responses Other (please specify)	8.70% 6
Total Respondents: 69

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What elements of your radiotherapy operation are NOT paperless?

Answered: 66
Skipped: 6

Approving

treatment plans

Checklists for

special

procedures

Documents

received by

mail or fax

Other (please

specify)

Answer Choices –	Responses –
– Approving treatment plans	13.64% 9
– Checklists for special procedures	31.82% 21
– Documents received by mail or fax	63.64% 42
– Responses Other (please specify)	48.48% 32
Total Respondents: 66

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What are the barriers to eliminating paper based elements?

Answered: 54
Skipped: 18

No interface with HDR and R&V, consent signature

8/8/2018 06:42 PM

Resistance to change, limited staff to support transition

8/3/2018 07:41 PM

Everyone has to be paperless.

8/3/2018 01:33 PM

Time & team buy-in

8/1/2018 03:41 PM

Comfort level, fear of errors, distrust of computers, weel-known cumbersome software, increased staffing, steep learning curves, difficulty in start-up, etc., etc., etc...

8/1/2018 02:27 PM

working on moving to paperless

8/1/2018 10:43 AM

Physicians $$$

8/1/2018 02:57 AM

One physician insist printing out chat round check list and everyone sign his/her part on paper. Neurologist cannot co-sign plan electronically with oncologist in ARIA.

8/1/2018 01:06 AM

Old grumpy oncologists who are stuck in their ways

7/31/2018 10:57 PM

Physicians

7/31/2018 07:26 PM

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Please add any comments regarding the use of paper in your radiotherapy operation.

Answered: 27
Skipped: 45

Slow transition to paperless should be complete soon. No connection between rad onc OIS and hospital EMR causing duplicate work

8/3/2018 07:41 PM

Faxed papers from outside need to be stopped and that will be force everyone go paperless. Many physician office still using paper chart that has to be changed to paperless.

8/3/2018 01:33 PM

I am an advocate of paperless charting. The main issue is keeping and intuitive as simple as possible. Paper charts were pretty much universal and easy to understand. Things were generally where they belonged. We should not have to make 10 clicks to find the prescription and treatment history to date. Stepping down from my soapbox now...

8/1/2018 02:27 PM

Printed written directive is created by MD. Used by dosimeter, therapists, nursing.

7/31/2018 04:40 PM

People will always scribble notes but the medical record is and should be fully electronic

7/31/2018 04:19 PM

No records are kept on paper. It is only used to reference in consults/chart rounds, etc.

7/31/2018 04:10 PM

anything that starts as a paper( like some sign off's in the OR) gets scanned in. Everything else is pdf to begin with or part of aria

7/31/2018 02:25 PM

We should be paperless

7/31/2018 02:15 PM

Paperless operations is a means to an end-greater productivity, increased safety and quality. It's not an end in itself. With the current radiation therapy products on the market, going paperless with certain procedures does not meet intended goals. Keeping some paper-based activity may be more prudent and should not be seen as inferior option, so long as one is focused on specified goals: increased productivity, safety, clear documentation. Food for thought: How many commercial radiation therapy vendors have incorporated functional (not marketing fluff) tablet- and smartphone-based features into their products?

7/31/2018 01:55 PM

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