[Histonet] Tracking OR specimens

[Garrison, Becky]

Realize this is a late response....  
I can pull a "Specimen report" through Centricity (the OR computer system).  The OR staff enters each specimen as it is collected  (for pathology, cultures for micro, frozens, touch preps) into Centricity as part of their documentation for the case.  The report I pull extracts this data.  I run each day after 12 noon for  the previous day.

We only instituted this in April.  Gives great feedback and lets me  check that the specimen is received in Pathology but that the pathology accession staff accurately records each specimen.  
We also get the OR schedule but not all cases on schedule generate a specimen and some cases expected to have pathology specimen don't and other cases not expected to generate a specimen do ...... so the Specimen Report is the most specific
way to track what was intended to go to Pathology.

Unfortunately, we are converting hospital wide to EPIC and so far, EPIC OR documentation does not have a comparable function.  Orders will then be placed
not in an OR module but in the same place that all other orders are placed and our 
Order Interface does not give specific specimen sites.

If there are EPIC users / EPIC vendors that have a solution, I would really like to hear from you.

If you use Centricity and want more specifics, will be glad to give more information on our set up. 

Becky Garrison
Pathology Supervisor
Shands Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL 32209
904-244-6237, phone
904-244-4290, fax
904-393-3194, pager
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of WILLIAM DESALVO
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:25 AM
To: Michelle Lamphere; histonet
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Tracking OR specimens

We use the OR schedule and have a log at Surgical Pathology that the person delivering specimens places a patient label w/ the number of specimens delivered and they sign off. This has helped many times when OR believes they have delivered all the specimens. We use both the log and OR schedule to reconcile cases and contact OR is a case has not been delivered by end of day. 

William DeSalvo, BS HTL(ASCP)
Production Manager-Anatomic Pathology
Chair, NSH Quality Management Committee
Owner/Consultant, Collaborative Advantage Consulting

 

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> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:14:04 +0000
> Subject: [Histonet] Tracking OR specimens
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> Are there any histology labs that actively participate in auditing the Operating Room on a daily basis to make sure that histology receives all of the specimens that the OR should have submitted? If so, how do you do this? Or should the OR be solely responsible for making sure that they specimens make it to histology?
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> Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP)
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