We are using sample type for our Chemistry Department and they love it. Our labels contain tests that are specific for that tube container and the bar code is unique for that label. So when the techs run the containers into analyzers, the analyzers will read that barcode and perform that specific test. For example, the floor orders CMP and DIGOXIN on a patient. In test dictionary container associated with CMP is Gold and DIGOXIN is Red. Also these containers have associated sample type. Two labels will print. One for CMP and one for DIGOXIN. Both labels have same specimen numbers but separate barcode numbers. Meditech has programmed our LX20's and ACCESS to read these sample type barcodes.
Please note: For your label format use "lsp tube tests" keyword. That will display tests associated with that container. Hope this will help. Fariborz Peyjam Project Manager Mount Sinai Hospital Chicago, IL Phone: (773) 257-5257 Fax: (773) 257-5145 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brick, Julie C. Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Sample type enhancement in LAB Is anyone using the sample types for containers in LAB to generate different bar code labels for different sample types per specimen? If so, does it work well for your lab? In reading the DTS which introduced this functionality, it seems to me it has just made specimen tracking and processing more complicated. Are you able to tell visually from the label that this bar code for the red tube only contains the tests which require a red tube and not a green tube test that has combined to the same specimen because they are in the same department? Does anyone else think it would make more sense to generated different specimen numbers if the tests have different collection containers but are in the same department? Julie Brick, MT(ASCP) LIS Coordinator Anne Arundel Medical Center 443-481-4270 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________ This message [including any attachments] contains information intended for a specific individual[s] and purpose that may be confidential or otherwise legally protected from disclosure. Any review, use, distribution, disclosure of contents, or copying of the message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please reply to the sender indicating this error and delete the transmission from your system immediately without copying or disclosing the information.
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