Re: [Histonet] Interfacing with Meditech Magic

[WILLIAM DESALVO]

Sheila,

I use a tracking / quality system and I believe you should look at the problem from another view. What you did before in a manual way, now has to be reconsidered, developed and constructed with strict logic for counting and tracking all units (specimen, block, slide) throughout your process. Manual systems often mix logic and, in my mind, create complexity that leads to mislabels. Do not try to fool the LIS, work w/ it. When you cut a block and you have H&E slides and special staining (i.e. recut, SS, IHC, ISH) slides, you need to make sure all slides are unique items and will be tracked so. In our system, slides are designated A1-1, A1-2, A1-3. . .  and there is communication with the pathologist as to the numbering and what the cut slide contains. We even have protocols built into our system that allows us to cur unstained slides and they can be reconciled back to a special staining slide. I suggest you might want to sit down and “map out’” (flow chart) your cutting and pathologist ordering process so that you can create the logical tracking process needed to work with your LIS.


William DeSalvo BS, HTL(ASCP)   






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Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎March‎ ‎16‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎52‎ ‎AM
To: Sheila Adey
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Shelia,

It's a beautiful Sunday morning so I feel guilty suggesting that you lie but........only to a machine. If you input that the H&E is at level 2 and the next stain is at level 2.1 the new information should not be overridden. When you format the labels you can format the level number as an integer so 2.1 becomes 2.  You could also have levels 2, two & II if you want to mislead the computer instead of lie to it. I think as long as one program sees a unique level that your eye can read as the same thing you can get around the problem. 

John

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On Mar 16, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Sheila Adey <sadey <@t> hotmail.ca> wrote:

Hello Everyone:
I am looking for some suggestions. We use Meditech Magic and we are trying to interface with the Leica Cerebro system. We are trying to put the correct info in the .hist section of Meditech so that Cerebro can pull the necessary info for the labels.
My unsolved issue at the moment is how to tell cerebro that I need an H&E label and  special stain label on the same level. My computer person is saying that the second procedure typed in will over ride the first one ordered.
Thanks for any advice. 
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