[Histonet] Vantage in Grossing Room

[Morken, Timothy]

Cerner Copath AB&T will not interact in a bi-directional way with a third party tracking system (except to get "status" updates, ie when a block is scanned at embedding Vantage will send a message to Copath to update the block status). That is, you cannot enter a block or stain order in the third party system and have the data be written back to the Copath database. You must enter all in Copath and then the third party system picks it up from there. That is why Copath was telling Anita that they would need to use Copath alone at grossing (and accessioning, and all stain ordering). Also, You must buy and install AB&T to use any third party tracking system (AB&T is the HL7 interface). 

Tim Morken
Supervisor, Histology, Electron Microscopy and Neuromuscular Special Studies
UC San Francisco Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Mihalik
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 7:12 AM
To: 'Amber McKenzie'; 'Tom McNemar'; Morken, Timothy; 'Histonet'
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Vantage in Grossing Room

Amber, at the risk of exposing my ignorance, doesnt AB&T and Vantage offer
very similar functionality?   I'm just curious why you would have both?

As to your question, if you have some validation process occurring at grossing that requires information from your Copath system, then perhaps you might want to use Copath at grossing.  For instance, if you scan requisitions or manual drawings or anything of that nature and you require those scanned images or other information to be verified at grossing, you might want to use Copath for grossing IF that information is not being sent across the interface from Copath to Vantage.

I hope I'm making sense, but if not, please feel free to ask for clarification.

Michael Mihalik
PathView Systems | cell: 214.733.7688 | 800.798.3540 | fax: 952.241.7369

-----Original Message-----
From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Amber McKenzie
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 9:49 AM
To: Tom McNemar; 'Morken, Timothy'; Histonet
Subject: [Histonet] Vantage in Grossing Room

 For those of you who have Vantage, in your grossing room do you have Vantage set up or your LIS system?  I was thinking it should be vantage, but our Co-path person said we should have AB&T set up in the grossing room and let vantage start at embedding, microtomy and case assembly.  What are your thoughts? Do you have a full computer, keyboard, and scanner in grossing?
Thanks!


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