[Histonet] Beaker

Wed Nov 29 13:15:20 CST 2017

Good luck with Beaker.  We switched in April and had many issues.  Insist on a complete run through of a specimen, from collecting to billing before you go live.  We had issues where our pathologist did not have access, printers were not linked,  etc.  Get used to the phrase "It's hard coded" which is used by the Beaker folks when something cannot be changed.  The interface is more involved than with our homegrown database and now almost eight months later it is taking us about double the time to do the data entry.  Also, schedule a 'At the elbow support person' to be in your lab area a full week when you go live.  This is a Beaker term for someone who has experience using the system from another organization.  And finally, get ready to start a lot of tickets, which is the way that your get something addressed in EPIC.  The first day, I put in 34.

 Mark

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Beaker with or without Vantage (Martha Ward-Pathology)
   2. gross photography (Julio Benavides Silv?n)
   3. Re: gross photography (Hawkins, Hal K.)
   4. Frozen section - IHC for 6x HisTag (Ana Maluenda)
   5. Lab related blog post (Lester Raff MD)
   6. Re: gross photography (Gudrun Lang)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:30:57 +0000
From: Martha Ward-Pathology <mward at wakehealth.edu>
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"They" aren't the ones that will have to use it.....therein lies the rub!   I have not heard many positive things about AP Beaker.

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Martha Ward, MT (ASCP) QIHC
Manager

Molecular Diagnostics Lab
Medical Center Boulevard ?\? Winston-Salem, NC 27157
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mward at wakehealth.edu ?
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I am interested as well. "They" are threatening us with a move to Beaker in the future....

Tim Morken
Pathology Site Manager, Parnassus
Supervisor, Electron Microscopy/Neuromuscular Special Studies Department of Pathology UC San Francisco Medical Center

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Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 8:10 AM
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Subject: [Histonet] Beaker with or without Vantage

I'm looking for anyone out there that has switched to Beaker for AP, Also do you use Ventana Connect with Beaker?  Did you choose to use the Beaker tracking system or is anyone using Beaker in conjunction with Vantage?  Our Hospital is in the beginning phase of moving from Copath Sunquest to Beaker (2017 version) .  Any thoughts of what has gone well and what has not would be appreciated.

Thanks so much

Blake Taylor
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Lexington Medical Center
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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:27:21 +0100
From: Julio Benavides Silv?n <julio.benavides.silvan at csic.es>
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Subject: [Histonet] gross photography
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Hi there,

May I ask you your opinion about which system you are using to take
gross pictures? We are using a couple of big tungsten light bulbs and
a Nikon d60 camera. We are a research lab working with sheep, so we
get big lesions in big organs. I was wondering if anybody is using a
Digital Gross Photography System and how they compare with a "more
ytraditional" digital camera approach.

As always, thank you so much for your opinions. Greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Julio

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:41:19 +0000
From: "Hawkins, Hal K." <hhawkins at UTMB.EDU>
To: Julio Benavides Silv?n      <julio.benavides.silvan at csic.es>,
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We have used handheld digital cameras for our research in sheep in Galveston.  For autopsies at the Shriners hospital, we use handheld cameras, one operated by a professional photographer, and also an old copy stand with hot lights and a backlight and a Sony digital camera with a macro lens on an alpha lens mount adapter, which works pretty well.  The new macro photography in the UTMB autopsy service is great -- you enter the case number and put the specimen on the stand, and the system handles focus, exposure and record keeping and provides excellent pictures.

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Hi there,

May I ask you your opinion about which system you are using to take
gross pictures? We are using a couple of big tungsten light bulbs and
a Nikon d60 camera. We are a research lab working with sheep, so we
get big lesions in big organs. I was wondering if anybody is using a
Digital Gross Photography System and how they compare with a "more
ytraditional" digital camera approach.

As always, thank you so much for your opinions. Greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Julio

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 06:41:32 +0000
From: Ana Maluenda <Ana.Maluenda at baker.edu.au>
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Hi everyone!

Does anyone have experience with immunohistochemistry or immunofluorescence anti-6x HisTag on frozen sections, mouse tissue? I can find online lots of references for immunocytochemistry, but not much on tissue staining. Any help or hints would be much appreciated!

Kind regards,

Ana

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:41:42 +0000
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 17:13:38 +0100
From: "Gudrun Lang" <gu.lang at gmx.at>
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Hi,
We use MakroPath from Milestone in a routine histolab. The camera is mounted
on the top oft he grossing-station, with an integrated PC+monitor and pedals
for zooming and taking photos. Within this system you can mark the pictures,
draw something, measure something ...
In comparison to the older method with digital-camera, manual zoom etc. it
is very conveniant.  Picture quality is high.

Gudrun

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Hi there,

May I ask you your opinion about which system you are using to take gross
pictures? We are using a couple of big tungsten light bulbs and a Nikon d60
camera. We are a research lab working with sheep, so we get big lesions in
big organs. I was wondering if anybody is using a Digital Gross Photography
System and how they compare with a "more ytraditional" digital camera
approach.

As always, thank you so much for your opinions. Greatly appreciated!

Cheers

Julio

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