[Histonet] Molecular Ordering in Pathology

[Amy Self]

How is your lab handling molecular orders that are coming from outside physician offices?

We currently receive molecular orders via fax, and this is getting quite cumbersome. When we were only getting a few a week it was tolerable but now we are getting a few orders daily.  What should be a simple process takes entirely too long because we end up having to call the physician's office to clarify the order or ask which PDL-1 you want, ICD-10 codes, etc. and then go to the reference lab website and order the test.

I just feel there is some simpler way of doing this. I would like to see the ordering physician's office order their own test from the reference lab - we get a request to send the block out and it's over. Am I Hopeless in histology for wanting or expecting a simpler workflow for molecular orders?

Our IT department is trying to simplify things but no matter what they come up with it seems to create more work for us in histology. We have Meditech LIS system.  Just to throw this out there too - we have no pathology secretary or a mail-out department; we histotechs do all this work within the histology department ourselves.


Thanks,
Amy Self
Senior Histology Technologist
Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital
606 Black River Road
Georgetown, SC 29440
Office: (843) 520-8711
aself at tidelandshealth.org
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