Software Trial

  • Are you an anatomical pathologist who is interested in trialling some of the latest software tools for histopathology reporting?
  • Would you like to trial software aimed at improving your productivity and more efficiently meet National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) requirements?
  • Would you like a new way to meet the required Category D Continued Professional Development (CPD) hours?
  • Would you like to advocate for software upgrades that are important to you?


If so, we want to help you.

With the support of over 38 Australasian laboratories, and cancer registries, the Structured Pathology Reporting of Cancer (SPRC) Project is coordinating a software trial, to provide local opportunities and build knowledge to support more widespread adoption of digital reporting software.

The purpose of the SPRC software trial is to gather knowledge; to improve the efficiency of uptake and usability of RCPA structured reporting protocols; and to drive higher performance pathology reporting in Australia for highest-level patient care.

Software products for structured histopathology reporting will be available to trial by anatomical pathologists and trainees from February 2023.

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The software will showcase five protocol templates to trial:


Partner cancer registries will provide feedback on software trial histopathology reports:

  • QLD Cancer Registry
  • NSW Cancer Registry
  • National Cancer Screening Register - Bowel Program


Clinicians will provide feedback on the software trial histopathology reports.

Video - Benefits of SPRC and the RCPA Software Trial

software products

With more than two decades of experience, Voicebrook is the leading provider of reporting solutions for pathology, trusted by more than 500 client sites and 3,600 unique users across the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Voicebrook’s VoiceOver PRO software is flexible and robust, offering automated pathology templates to standardise cancer reporting and satisfy RCPA/ICCR protocols. RCPA Pilot users can trust that reports generated in VoiceOver PRO will meet all requirements for content and format, in accordance with the National Structured Pathology Reporting Protocols. This is where experience counts, and to that end, Voicebrook has seamlessly incorporated the College of American Pathologists’ cancer checklists (CAP eCC) into its reporting software in the United States since 2014.

PRO directly integrates with any Anatomic Pathology system/LIS, allowing users to rapidly and accurately create pathology reports. Simply navigate through the checklists and select responses to build a structured report. Checklist content will dynamically adjust as the checklist is completed, improving efficiency and enhancing patient safety.

Participating pathologists can trial five RCPA-approved templates in VoiceOver PRO as part of the pilot program: Colorectal cancer, Polypectomy, Endometrial cancer, Ovarian cancer, and Cervical cancer.

Beyond the limited scope of the RCPA trial program, VoiceOver PRO can provide a fully automated, speech-enabled workflow in both the cutting room and by the pathologist. Learn more about VoiceOver PRO and the RCPA Pilot by visiting www.voicebrook.com/RCPA.

If you would like to trial Voicebrook’s VoiceOver PRO software, please contact the Senior Project Officer / Principal Investigator, Tina Selinger, by email at [email protected] to notify of your interest and receive software access.

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PathNotes is designed by RCPA Fellow and general pathologist Dr Travis Brown with the aim to provide pathologists with a simple, straightforward and time effective way to produce a structured report that complies with RCPA/International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) protocols.

PathNotes provides a simple template checklist that can be used at every stage of specimen reporting (i.e., macroscopic, microscopic, ancillary). The titles/headings link relevant information such as element notes, evidentiary support references, diagrams, figures and tables provided by the RCPA or ICCR. As the user logically progresses through each element, conditional elements are revealed and unnecessary items are hidden. The final report can then be copy-pasted into the laboratory information management system (LIMS) or integrated directly into the LIMS.

These five programs for the pilot study satisfy Level 4 Structured Reporting and two programs include relational databases achieving Level 6. PathNotes is working with the ICCR to make these programs available for developing countries. This software is developed by pathologists for pathologists.

User instructions:

If you would like to trial PathNotes software, please contact the Senior Project Officer / Principal Investigator - Tina Selinger ([email protected]) and notify of your interest and receive software access.

Celerato AG is a company that emerged from a Swiss National Science Foundation-funded research project between four major Swiss University Hospitals. With SynReport we provide an efficient structured reporting solution which is in use in pathology institutes in Switzerland and Germany.

We offer a variety of electronic reporting forms across the pathological domains (histopathology, cytology, molecular pathology) for cancer reporting and increasingly also for non-cancer reporting. We are proud to have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR) to implement ICCR datasets; and as required, our forms are tailored for national guidelines (such as RCPA protocols).

SynReport presents the user with a series of mandatory and optional questions. Based on the answers given, only the downstream relevant questions are displayed; logically dependent elements are automatically selected; and the report text (including a compact summary) is generated continuously. A large proportion of the form elements are linked to medical codes (SNOMED CT, ICD-O), resulting in high-quality, machine-readable data being generated with each completed report. Additionally, numerous free text fields allow the user to add information not covered by the predefined selections.

For the RCPA Software Trial, five form templates (Colorectal, Polypectomy, Endometrium, Cervix, Ovary) are made available to participants via cloud access. These forms can be used individually, or in case of different specimens included in one submission, also in combination.

Customers with full access to SynReport have the additional option to choose a local (on premises) installation. With this option, the report text and the generated data can be automatically transmitted to your LIS (laboratory information system). Thanks to our flexible interfaces, it is also possible to automatically populate the forms with electronic medical record information. CSV exports for statistical analysis can be created with just a few clicks.

In addition, the standard form templates can be customised in various ways (controlling text generation, hiding of undesired questions, linking of additional medical codes, etc.). You may also like to make use of our powerful form editor yourself to create fully customer-specific forms.

We respect our customers' sovereignty over the data they generate: the data generated in the trial can only be accessed by the project administrators, and with the on-premises solution, your data never even leaves your IT environment.

For instructions on how to use our software click here.

If you would like to trial the SynReport software, please contact the Senior Project Officer / Principal Investigator - Tina Selinger ([email protected]) to notify of your interest and receive software access.

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Proven impact - the structured histopathology reporting platform whose use reduced colorectal cancer mortality in the Netherlands and led to a 4.5% increase in delivery of adjuvant therapy (JCO).


LogicNets is a powerful structured reporting and decision support platform. Not only does LogicNets help you quickly capture your observations, but our solution also processes the data in real time to execute critical decision logic and dynamically compute the outcomes and reports used by RCPA, ICCR, and other leading guidelines. This makes LogicNets a great strategy for meeting National Pathology Accreditation Advisory Council (NPAAC) mandate requirements (through level 6), supporting your registries, and meeting other data needs of your lab.

LogicNets structured reporting applications are used world-wide to ensure more complete and accurate data capture while greatly streamlining and simplifying the reporting process for individual users. In the Netherlands, use of our platform has led to unprecedented adoption by pathologists and a significant increase in data quality as reported by the national registry.

But even better, in 2019, a scholarly paper published in the JCO Journal of Clinical Cancer Informatics (JCO) demonstrated that the Netherlands’ use of enforced structured reporting (on the LogicNets platform) led to clear and measurable improvements in outcomes and decreases in mortality.

Our solution can be used stand-alone in a browser or can be seamlessly integrated with any Lab system. ICCR/RCPA protocols can be imported and customized per lab and meet NPAAC requirements up through level 6.

Read more about our structured reporting and decision support solution here: https://www.logicnets.com/solutions/healthcare/structured-reporting/

If you would like to trial LogicNets software, please contact the Senior Project Officer / Principal Investigator - Tina Selinger ([email protected]) to notify of your interest and receive software access.

Will be open to pathologists working in laboratories who use Evolution vLab Laboratory information management systems (LIMS).

Cirdan’s next generation laboratory information system (LIS) is centred on improving the quality of patient care through innovative digital solutions.

Cirdan’s Ultra Digital Cell Pathology product is currently in beta development and will be available for general release in Q1 2025.

The RCPA structured reporting trial showcasing Cirdan’s software will be open initially for Cirdan customers only.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

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If you would like to participate, please contact the Senior Project Officer / Principal Investigator - Tina Selinger [email protected].

Participants will be asked to submit:

  • A short questionnaire about their experience using the trial software
  • 1 - 10 deidentified 'test' histopathology reports using at least one of the trial software products
  • 1 - 10 deidentified 'control' histopathology reports using the participants routine reporting method


The data will be analysed and the results of the software trial will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. This research has been approved by a Human Research Ethics Committee (X22-0129).

Participants will be entitled to claim their contribution to the software trial as CPD activities under:

  • Category D - Quality and outcomes measures (Code 96), and/or
  • Category B - Research


If you would like to participate, please contact the Senior Project Officer / Principal Investigator - Tina Selinger [email protected].

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