[Histonet] Beaker with or without Vantage

[Morken, Timothy]

Ginny, when you say "slow down our whole process" is that slowness in the system or mismatch of the LIS to the pathology process?

My understanding is that this was originally designed for use in public health labs (EpicLab), which are quite different than pathology labs. Now they are trying to adapt a thirty-year old non-pathology system to pathology. Sure would be nice if someone would just use a new pathology-specific LIS built with new technology!  Why do we keep having to keep having non-pathology people shove things on us and demand we adapt to their ignorance? We went thru this with Copath for many years and had to teach them how pathology works (they should have been paying us for our knowledge, not charging us to teach them!). Now it seems it is coming around again in a new form.


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

From: Kurth Virginia L. [mailto:VKurth at uwhealth.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 10:16 AM
To: Morken, Timothy; Martha Ward-Pathology
Subject: Re: Beaker with or without Vantage


Hello

We switched to beaker this year, and it definitely had growing pains.

 I personally believe it was made for a doctor not a lab, and seemed to slow down our whole process,

but everyone is going to it.  It helps patient care in the aspect of everyone is on the same page with that

patient.  I think that more and more kinks will be worked out as it continues to adapt to the lab setting.  I think

asking people when they switched should be considered because it has evolved.  Good Luck!





Ginny Kurth


UW Hospital of Wisconsin

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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.



Martha Ward, MT (ASCP) QIHC
Manager

Molecular Diagnostics Lab
Medical Center Boulevard  \  Winston-Salem, NC 27157
p 336.716.2109  \  f 336.716.5890
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From: Morken, Timothy via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 11:48 AM
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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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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
Surgical Pathology Supervisor
Lexington Medical Center
803-936-8214
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