[Histonet] Process Improvements

[Patsy Ruegg]

Fawn,

Could you not use something like the number of recuts, reembeds, staining
repeats for something like that?  For each parameter u could list
suggestions for improving those repeat test to lower the numbers from month
to month. 

Patsy Ruegg, HT(ASCP)QIHC
Ruegg IHC Consulting, LLC
40864 Arkansas Ave
Bennett, CO 80102
Phone: 303-644-4538
Fax: 720-859-4110
pruegg <@t> ihctech.net

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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Gudrun Lang
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 2:36 AM
To: 'Fawn Bomar'
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Subject: AW: [Histonet] Process Improvements

I would recommend data, that are available through lab-IT. It is a kind of
frustrating and time-consuming, if you have to monitor daily a large number
of figures. 
E.g. we have an "incoming" time and a "ready of report" time in our system,
that tells us the mean-time of histology testing.

Or for medical results, the system should have the possibility to monitor
the single parameters (e.g. estrogen positivity). So one can create a report
out of IT.
Everything you put into the system, should give you a report.

And you should choose parameters, that can really be altered by yourself, if
you are not content with the result.
Often we see a problem, but everyone says: there's nothing we can change...
that's out of our control.

Gudrun


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[mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Im Auftrag von Fawn Bomar
Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Oktober 2012 16:40
An: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Betreff: [Histonet] Process Improvements

Hi everyone,



My new manager would like me to come up with a list of process/performance
improvements in the pathology department that can be measured on a
monthly/quarterly basis, such as they do for other departments in the
hospital, i.e. the ER measures the number of patient falls with <5 per
quarter being their goal.  I need advice on what to measure for our
histology/pathology/cytology departments.  Does anyone have any suggestions?



Thank you

Fawn
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