TAKING ON LUNG CANCER, TOGETHER
Kootenai Health, United States
The Kootenai Health team in Idaho tapped Medtronic technology and expertise to develop a program to detect and treat lung cancer earlier — improving outcomes and and decreasing the disease's economic burden. With support from the Medtronic Impact Program, the Kootenai team was able to:
- Streamline communications between pathologists, pulmonologists, interventional radiologists, oncologists, and cardiothoracic surgeons
- Appoint nurse navigators to help guide patients along the journey through treatment
- Identify ways to screen more people for lung cancer and to capture and track patients at high risk for late-stage detection
- Diagnose 46 early-stage lung cancer patients in the program's first year