Good Morning and Happy Friday 🙂
I am looking to see if anyone has any information or recommended websites they
could share with me on Telepathology as far as getting things set up and
running. Looking for validation work-up, policies and training/competency
checklist.
Please forward any inform
Happy Monday and I hope that everyone had a great weekend 🙂
Does anyone have a non-gyn and FNA cytology competency checklist that they
would be willing to share with me?
Thanks,
Amy Self
Senior Histology Technologist
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Road
Georgetown, SC 2944
How is your lab handling molecular orders that are coming from outside
physician offices?
We currently receive molecular orders via fax, and this is getting quite
cumbersome. When we were only getting a few a week it was tolerable but now we
are getting a few orders daily. What should be a sim
Good Morning Everyone,
Hope all is well with you and that everyone is staying safe. Does anyone have
a job description or job duties for a histology supervisor and/or pathology
manager that can be shared with me or any suggestions on where I can find
information on what the duties re for these
Happy Friday Everyone,
How do your pathologist get orders to the histology department? Are they sent
manual(pencil/paper) - electronic through the case - email?
Also how do you receive orders from outside facilities? We currently receive
our orders via email or fax. This process needs to be i
Good Afternoon and I hope that everyone had a safe and Happy New Year,
Question:
Does Joint Commission offer a checklist like CAP does that is specific to
pathology?
Thanks,
Amy Self
Senior Histology Technologist
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Road
Georgetown, SC 29440
Of
Good Morning and I hope that everyone had a wonderful, safe and blessed weekend,
I have a question about non-pathologist grossing review..
We were inspected by TJC week before last and were cited for the Standard
QSA.13.04.01 which reads; When a non-pathologist performs gross analysis under
the
Good Afternoon,
Do any of you get your temperatures for your equipment and\or refrigerators
monitored by a temperature monitoring company and if so how do you document
this check?
Thanks in Advance,
Amy Self
Senior Histology Technologist
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Ro
Have a Wonderful and Blessed weekend everyone 😊
Amy Self
Senior Histology Technologist
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Road
Georgetown, SC 29440
Office: (843) 520-8711
as...@tidelandshealth.org
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Hope everyone is having a wonderful Wednesday...
We (histology) have been doing what seems like tons of FNA procedures
(Radiology/EBUS\EUS) here lately as well as BM procedures. With all of the
Covid going on around us we are working short staffed and doing the best we can
with what we have, b
Good Morning HistoNetters,
I am reaching out to the histonet in hopes to get some suggestions from you on
how to handle incomplete cross-sections of tissue in blocks. We are a small lab
so this has not been an issue in the past but now that we are growing and our
staff has increased I am gettin
Hi Histotechs and Happy Friday,
Would someone please share a Policy on the CAP Cancer Protocols and Synoptic
Reporting? How are you handling this process?
CAP Checklist questions - ANP.12350 Cancer Protocols and ANP.12385 Synoptic
Reporting
Thank you for any help with this,
Amy
Amy Self
His
Good Morning All,
How many of you out there in histoland have a dedicated pathology information
software system that can integrate with voice recognition? If you would please
tell me the pros and cons of what you have in place and if it can integrate
with Meditech. We currently utilize Meditec
Happy Wednesday Everyone,
Does anyone have a cytology competency for non-gyn and FNA specimens that they
would be willing to share with me. I am specifically interested in something
for making smears during an FNA procedure. The histology department will be now
assisting with Fine Needle Aspira
Happy Friday and yy it's almost time clock time,
We have recently signed up to start getting inspected by Joint Commission.
Does anyone have any resources that they could point me to? Does JC have a
checklist like CAP does? Any information would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance and I ho
Good Morning,
I am looking for ideas/suggestions for QM Histology/Pathology. My QM director
wants me to "measure" something that I can place on the lab dashboard.
Thanks in advance for your help..
Amy Self
Histology Lab Senior Tech
Lab
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Roa
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
Happy Friday
I have a billing question I'm throwing out.
I am working on our billing process in hopes to improve things and make it a
little more efficient for us. We really have room for improvement. I feel
there is lots of work that is being done that somehow can be eliminated - I
just
Good Morning Everyone,
Does anyone have a competency assessment with the six elements of competency
included that they would be willing to share with me? I have not been the best
at keeping up with my department's competency and now we have a new lab
director and he is asking that I improve wh
Good morning,
How is everyone storing their amputated limbs that are received in pathology?
Are they stored in the morgue or in a refrigerator located within the
department and at what temperature is suggested for the storage of amputated
limbs?
Thanks in advance,
Amy Self
Histology Lab Seni
Question about ordering Lung Tumor Profiles;
How are lung tumor profiles being ordered at your facility; at the time the
pathologist is diagnosing or are they ordered at a later date by the patient's
oncologist?
For those of you that order at time of diagnosing are you getting reimbursed or
ar
Good Morning Histonetters,
For Meditech users who download 3M files for medical necessity, has anyone had
any issues with CPT code 88342 rejecting and only accepting diagnosis codes
specific to lung (dx code C34... ).
Thanks in advance for your help,
Amy Self
Histology Lab Senior Tech
Lab
Tide
Happy Thursday connected to Friday,
Have a few questions about slide and block storage...
Are you blocks and slides stored on-site or off-site at a record control type
facility?
If your blocks and slides are stored off-site how do you get the material that
you need at any given point of the d
Happy Friday and I hope everyone has a great weekend,
Can anyone tell me what the CPT code 88399 can be used for in pathology?
We have been using this code to track mail-outs for productivity purposes but
was told today that because there is not a dollar amount attached to this code
that we cou
Histonetters,
I am going through the CAP checklist and was wondering how the following
question below is being handled by everyone that gets inspected by CAP.
ANP.12360 Report Completeness
Surgical pathology reports for specimens with malignant
diagnosis from definitiv
Histonetters,
I am going through the CAP checklist and was wondering how the following
question below is being handled by everyone that gets inspected by CAP.
ANP.12360 Report Completeness
Surgical pathology reports for specimens with malignant
diagnosis from definitive
Dear Histonetters,
Question: Does anyone out there in Histoland use Meditech Client Server for
pathology? If so how do you like it and do you find that it provides
histology and/or cytology with everything needed to operate the department to
full capacity especially QA/QC tracking?
Thanks
Happy Monday Histonetters,
Question: Does anyone out there in Histoland use Meditech Client Server for
pathology? If so how do you like it and do you find that it provides
histology and/or cytology with everything needed to operate the department to
full capacity especially QA/QC tracking?
Dear Histonetters,
Are there any labs that utilize Premier for staffing productivity? For those
that do use Premier is the histology section separated from your other lab
sections or included with the clinical lab? And also is cytology considered
separate or included with histology? Do you
Happy Monday to Everyone,
I have been trying[ to figure out how to justify additional help in histology -
and it's been hard. My facility staffs according to billables. This by no
means feels fair to anyone in this department. You could have a specimen that
will provide one billable CPT code
Amy Self
Histology Lab Senior Tech
Lab
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Road
Georgetown, SC 29440
843-520-8711
as...@tidelandshealth.org
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Histology Lab Senior Tech
Lab
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Road
Georgetown, SC 29440
843-520-8711
as...@tidelandshealth.org
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