This is the download page for a free simple program to produce proformas for common cancers.
Colon Cancer proforma screen shot
The program is written in the freeware basic style scripting language AutoIt .
It is a stand alone program which comes in several versions. The most basic and the one currently available here is independant of your laboratory information system. It can sit in any folder on a network server accessable to users. It displays the proforma as an on-screen form which as you fill it in compiles the report, displays it on the screen and continually copies it to your computer clipboard. When you have finished, paste the text into the relevant record in your laboratory system using whatever paste command your emulator or program uses.
The proformas currently available are for Breast, Colon, Endometrium, Melanoma, Radical prostatectomy, Prostate core bx and Kidney.
they are based on the RCPath datasets with some local modifications.
Download stand alone bowel screening polyp proforma
The original version currently used in our laboratory interfaces with our Telepath laboratory computer system and powerterm emmulator to retrieve patient ID and existing macro descriptions into the form and to automate the pasting process when finished.
I also have a version which will store the data fields as an XML formatted file allowing sessions to be saved and continued later and also allows data to be send electronically to cancer registries etc.The source code is relativly easy to understand and modify for anyone with basic programming skills. I am happy to make it available to anyone who is interested in developing it further.