There is a special emphasis on large community cancer programs and all 71 NCI-funded cancer centers. Our intent is to expand to all other similar non-NCI based organizations. While each of our cancer centers are structured differently and our titles vary, from Cancer Center CIO/CRIO/CMIO to Directors of Cancer Informatics Shared Resources and Programs, to Chairs of Departments and Schools, we know first hand there are similarities in both the issues we face and the solutions we achieve.

As a consortium, we have initiated a dedicated list serve, an open-initiatives program, and very targeted cancer center informatics & precision medicine face-to-face meetings. These meetings are a place to review our priorities and initiatives, providing a forum for discussion of the strategic and pragmatic issues we, as informatics leaders, individually face at our respective institutions and cancer centers. These meetings are complementary to existing fora such as the ACCC, ASCO, AACR, ASTRO, AMIA, Global Alliance for Health and Genomics, ASHG, BioIT, US-based CTSA Informatics annual meeting, and NCI / NIH meetings.