[Histonet] Synoptic Reports

[Terri Braud]

Hi Allison - We couldn't afford the program offered by our LIS vendor, but since they are published annually, we have a fabulous transcriptionist that updates and reformats all of ours every year.  She saves them as a "quick text" in the LIS.  They are accessible to all who are dictating/transcribing reports. It's not very sophisticated, but it is cheap, reproducible, easily implemented, and most of all, compliant.

Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP)
Anatomic Pathology Supervisor
Laboratory
Holy Redeemer Hospital
1648 Huntingdon Pike
Meadowbrook, PA 19046
ph: 215-938-3689
fax: 215-938-3874
Care, Comfort, and Heal

Today's Topics:
   1. synoptic reporting (Eck, Allison)
 Good morning,
I am interested in finding out the ways that other labs stay up to date and compliant with the synoptic reporting requirements.  Our LIS software makes it quite difficult for us to integrate these as templates.  Do most labs have this built into their LIS, is there external software or programs that you use, do your pathologists just take responsibility for getting this information into the report?
Any advice is most appreciated
Thanks
Allison