Re: [Histonet] Downtime
Hi Nancy - Please see my answers filled in below. I hope that helps. Sincerely, Terri Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) Anatomic Pathology Supervisor Laboratory Holy Redeemer Hospital 1648 Huntingdon Pike Meadowbrook, PA 19046 ph: 215-938-3689 fax: 215-938-3874 Care, Comfort, and Heal Message: 1 Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 20:57:29 + From: Nancy Schmitt Subject: [Histonet] Downtime Hello All- We recently experienced some downtime with our computer systems - more than the usual 1-2 hours for maintenance. Some was isolated to our Anatomic Pathology system, and some of the downtime was organization wide. We are an independent laboratory system that operates with Cerner CoPath for Anatomic Pathology, MLab from McKesson for LIS and we then interface with Powerchart and EPIC at our hospitals. There is nothing like a little downtime to make you take another look at your processes. My questions: 1. What computer product are you currently using for Anatomic Pathology? Answer: Sunquest CoPath Plus 2. Are you satisfied? Answer: Extremely 3. Do you have your own IT group or is it maintained by outside resources? Answer: There is an IT group for the hospital, but both myself and the office supervisor have full system manager access to CoPath as well as the servers. With little exception, all modifications or enhancements to CoPath are made by myself or the office supervisor. Occasionally, we need IT help when dealing with interfaces. 4. Are you interfaced with hospital or other? Answer: We are interfaced with Soarian Clinical and Mobile MD for reporting and Soarian Financial for billing. All of our patient data comes from Soarian Financial, through Sunquest Clinicals to CoPath. We also have a slide engraver interfaced. Cytology orders are entered through Soarian Clinical, but Surgical Orders are still submitted on a manual requisition. 5. What critical functions do you provide during downtime? Are you giving verbal reports? Are you typing reports on a backup laptop? I appreciate any input you are willing to share and I am sure there will be others taking note of this valuable conversation! Answer: During a Soarian/Sunquest/CoPath downtime, we immediately switch to a manual log for specimens, and a WORD format for our reports. Our personal PCs almost never go down together so we type on them in WORD. Reports are manually signed by the pathologist and faxed by the office staff. Stat procedures such as FNAs and Frozens and all report notifications are called into the physicians and documented and signed. All of this is entered into the down system once it returns to normal. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Non-Gyn Specimens and SurePath
Good Morning, I am looking for some feedback on processing non-gyn specimens on the SurePath System as opposed to the ThinPrep System. Any information - good and bad is welcomed. Thanks in advance for your help. Amy Self Histology Lab Senior Tech Lab Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital 606 Black River Road Georgetown, SC 29440 843-520-8711 as...@tidelandshealth.org Our mission: We help people live better lives through better health. NOTE: The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Thermo Microm STP120 tissue Processor
Our machine has started to act wonky, we can not raise the lid, as it gives up a warning of Solid Paraffin, even after 5 hours. It did this last week when we went to use it and we had to reset the processor, losing all of our stored programs. Today even that isn't working. Any one else had this problem. No need to reply if you haven't experienced this with a Thermo STP120. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] FW: Humidity monitoring
From: Cindi Seevers Sent: Monday, April 30, 2018 10:16 AM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Humidity monitoring Hi everyone! We have a processor and cryostat in our gross room and I just found out we need to be monitoring the humidity for the processor. How is everyone else monitoring this? I'm assuming that there is a monitor for humidity that can be placed in that room. Also, if it's out of range, does the monitor alert the staff? (We are a small lab and only work 1 shift here, so I would need for it to alert the other lab staff.) Thanks in advance!! Cindi Seevers HT, ASCP Histology Supervisor Union Hospital Dover, Ohio This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please delete without copying and kindly e-mail a reply to inform us of the mistake in delivery. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Humidity monitoring
Hi everyone! We have a processor and cryostat in our gross room and This e-mail is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you received this message in error, please delete without copying and kindly e-mail a reply to inform us of the mistake in delivery. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
