Starting in 2020, after nearly 30 years of defining a fixed width format for data exchange, NAACCR will be transitioning Volume II of the NAACCR Data Standards and Data Dictionary to an XML based format. This webinar will highlight the readiness of registry software vendors for this important new data standard, as well as explaining the rich set of software resources and technical expertise available to the NAACCR community to make sure this transition to XML is as seamless as possible. This webinar will include presentations from NPCR, SEER, and the NAACCR XML Data Exchange Workgroup. If you are interested in the impact that NAACCR XML will have on your registry or organization and you would like to know the latest news on the XML transition, be sure to attend this webinar.

The Assessment of Central Cancer Registry Timeliness and Reporting Standards Task Force present their survey findings for members that were not able to attend the NAACCR Conference Registry of the Future session.

Proposed Updates to the Common Rule: An Overview of the NPRM On September 2, 2015, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and fifteen other Federal Departments and Agencies announced that a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) was put on public display and was published in the Federal Register on September 8, 2015.

NAACCR released the newly revised Death Clearance Manual in December 2014 for use beginning with 2013 deaths.