[Histonet] Telepathology

Good Morning and Happy Friday  I am looking to see if anyone has any information or recommended websites they could share with me on Telepathology as far as getting things set up and running. Looking for validation work-up, policies and training/competency checklist. Please forward any

[Histonet] Non-Gyn Cytology Competency

Happy Monday and I hope that everyone had a great weekend  Does anyone have a non-gyn and FNA cytology competency checklist that they would be willing to share with me? Thanks, Amy Self Senior Histology Technologist Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital 606 Black River Road Georgetown, SC

[Histonet] Molecular Ordering in Pathology

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

[Histonet] Histology Supervisor Job Description/Duites

Good Morning Everyone, Hope all is well with you and that everyone is staying safe. Does anyone have a job description or job duties for a histology supervisor and/or pathology manager that can be shared with me or any suggestions on where I can find information on what the duties re for

[Histonet] Order Test in Histology

Happy Friday Everyone, How do your pathologist get orders to the histology department? Are they sent manual(pencil/paper) - electronic through the case - email? Also how do you receive orders from outside facilities? We currently receive our orders via email or fax. This process needs to be

[Histonet] Joint Commission Standards for Pathology

Good Afternoon and I hope that everyone had a safe and Happy New Year, Question: Does Joint Commission offer a checklist like CAP does that is specific to pathology? Thanks, Amy Self Senior Histology Technologist Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital 606 Black River Road Georgetown, SC 29440

[Histonet] Non-Pathologist Grossing

Good Morning and I hope that everyone had a wonderful, safe and blessed weekend, I have a question about non-pathologist grossing review.. We were inspected by TJC week before last and were cited for the Standard QSA.13.04.01 which reads; When a non-pathologist performs gross analysis under

[Histonet] Temperature Checks

Good Afternoon, Do any of you get your temperatures for your equipment and\or refrigerators monitored by a temperature monitoring company and if so how do you document this check? Thanks in Advance, Amy Self Senior Histology Technologist Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital 606 Black River

[Histonet] Test

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[Histonet] FNA Procedures

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Wednesday... We (histology) have been doing what seems like tons of FNA procedures (Radiology/EBUS\EUS) here lately as well as BM procedures. With all of the Covid going on around us we are working short staffed and doing the best we can with what we have,

[Histonet] Incomplete cross sections of all tissue in blocks

Good Morning HistoNetters, I am reaching out to the histonet in hopes to get some suggestions from you on how to handle incomplete cross-sections of tissue in blocks. We are a small lab so this has not been an issue in the past but now that we are growing and our staff has increased I am

[Histonet] CAP Cancer protocols and synoptic reporting

Hi Histotechs and Happy Friday, Would someone please share a Policy on the CAP Cancer Protocols and Synoptic Reporting? How are you handling this process? CAP Checklist questions - ANP.12350 Cancer Protocols and ANP.12385 Synoptic Reporting Thank you for any help with this, Amy Amy Self

[Histonet] Dedicated Pathology Information Systems

Good Morning All, How many of you out there in histoland have a dedicated pathology information software system that can integrate with voice recognition? If you would please tell me the pros and cons of what you have in place and if it can integrate with Meditech. We currently utilize

[Histonet] Competency - Cytology

Happy Wednesday Everyone, Does anyone have a cytology competency for non-gyn and FNA specimens that they would be willing to share with me. I am specifically interested in something for making smears during an FNA procedure. The histology department will be now assisting with Fine Needle

[Histonet] Joint Commission Inspection Process

Happy Friday and yy it's almost time clock time, We have recently signed up to start getting inspected by Joint Commission. Does anyone have any resources that they could point me to? Does JC have a checklist like CAP does? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks in advance and I

[Histonet] Quality Measure for Pathology

Good Morning, I am looking for ideas/suggestions for QM Histology/Pathology. My QM director wants me to "measure" something that I can place on the lab dashboard. Thanks in advance for your help.. Amy Self Histology Lab Senior Tech Lab Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital 606 Black River

[Histonet] Non-Gyn Specimens and SurePath

Good Morning, I am looking for some feedback on processing non-gyn specimens on the SurePath System as opposed to the ThinPrep System. Any information - good and bad is welcomed. Thanks in advance for your help. Amy Self Histology Lab Senior Tech Lab Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital

[Histonet] Pathology Charges

Happy Friday I have a billing question I'm throwing out. I am working on our billing process in hopes to improve things and make it a little more efficient for us. We really have room for improvement. I feel there is lots of work that is being done that somehow can be eliminated - I

[Histonet] Competency Assessment

Good Morning Everyone, Does anyone have a competency assessment with the six elements of competency included that they would be willing to share with me? I have not been the best at keeping up with my department's competency and now we have a new lab director and he is asking that I improve

[Histonet] Amputated Limb Storage

Good morning, How is everyone storing their amputated limbs that are received in pathology? Are they stored in the morgue or in a refrigerator located within the department and at what temperature is suggested for the storage of amputated limbs? Thanks in advance, Amy Self Histology Lab

[Histonet] CPT code 88342

Good Morning Histonetters, For Meditech users who download 3M files for medical necessity, has anyone had any issues with CPT code 88342 rejecting and only accepting diagnosis codes specific to lung (dx code C34... ). Thanks in advance for your help, Amy Self Histology Lab Senior Tech Lab

[Histonet] Slide and Block Storage

Happy Thursday connected to Friday, Have a few questions about slide and block storage... Are you blocks and slides stored on-site or off-site at a record control type facility? If your blocks and slides are stored off-site how do you get the material that you need at any given point of the

[Histonet] CPT Code 88399

Happy Friday and I hope everyone has a great weekend, Can anyone tell me what the CPT code 88399 can be used for in pathology? We have been using this code to track mail-outs for productivity purposes but was told today that because there is not a dollar amount attached to this code that we

[Histonet] CAP Checklist Question

Histonetters, I am going through the CAP checklist and was wondering how the following question below is being handled by everyone that gets inspected by CAP. ANP.12360 Report Completeness Surgical pathology reports for specimens with malignant diagnosis from definitive

[Histonet] FW: CAP Checklist Question

Histonetters, I am going through the CAP checklist and was wondering how the following question below is being handled by everyone that gets inspected by CAP. ANP.12360 Report Completeness Surgical pathology reports for specimens with malignant diagnosis from

[Histonet] Meditech Client Server

Dear Histonetters, Question: Does anyone out there in Histoland use Meditech Client Server for pathology? If so how do you like it and do you find that it provides histology and/or cytology with everything needed to operate the department to full capacity especially QA/QC tracking? Thanks

[Histonet] Meditech Client Server

Happy Monday Histonetters, Question: Does anyone out there in Histoland use Meditech Client Server for pathology? If so how do you like it and do you find that it provides histology and/or cytology with everything needed to operate the department to full capacity especially QA/QC tracking?

[Histonet] Pathology labs using Premier for staffing

Dear Histonetters, Are there any labs that utilize Premier for staffing productivity? For those that do use Premier is the histology section separated from your other lab sections or included with the clinical lab? And also is cytology considered separate or included with histology? Do

[Histonet] Histology Workload

Happy Monday to Everyone, I have been trying[ to figure out how to justify additional help in histology - and it's been hard. My facility staffs according to billables. This by no means feels fair to anyone in this department. You could have a specimen that will provide one billable CPT

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[Histonet] test

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