All 4 slides were created from a designated block), but with Beaker, you are limited by the activities used in the Histology Workflow (eg. Other LIS systems have checks at various points of the process to confirm completeness (eg. When the Histology department is gathering all the created slides and stains to deliver to the pathologists, they need the ability to check that they have all pieces of the case before sending it all to the pathologist for interpretation.

This touches on a unique aspect of the Foundation Systems, where the build instructions can allow for application beyond this specific use-case.

Additionally, it shows how large of an impact a single column can have on the operations of an entire lab.

We want to showcase this build as several different hospital systems have requested our consultants to build this functionality. I apologize for not getting back to you sooner but the time taken for problem solving have added tremendously to my workload.On this post, we would like to spotlight a feature that is available in EpicвЂ™s Foundation Systems. But from my perspective, it is not worth the astronomical price tag. If you are just a genetics department and not part of a larger organization it may work for you. Most of our problems probably stem from the fact that we are a very low volume department and that our hospital jumped in too fast without adequately sorting out some of these issues. They were able to fix it going forward but if anyone looks up a report from early 2017, it reads as if the specimen was the 170,485th specimen of the year! And trust me, we are a tiny lab and this was NOT the case! The major problem I have with Epic in general is that there are separate customized individual modules for each department and the way that our test is ordered is different depending upon whether the specimen is coming from Labor and Delivery or the GOR or the Women's Surgical center or Radiology or Ultrasound or Pathology or Outpatients!!! As a result, we have actually missed receiving specimens and formalin was added before it was discovered that it was supposed to come to us! It took forever for Epic to design the way to document the collection of our specimens from all of these various areas! In some cases, the test was ordered and collected correctly but then auto cancelled by the system for some insane reason! These are irreplaceable specimens!! I just don't understand the fact that if Epic is such a big successful company that has done numerous other labs, why weren't all of these issues sorted out LONG before setting up Epic in my hosptial? But when they made a change after year one, our lab number came up as 170,485 and should have been 170485 (485th specimen in 2017). We wanted to continue with our 6 digit consecutive numbering instead of using the 12 digit Epic number. For example: One of our components is Laboratory Number. One of the problems we had was that Epic makes universal changes without taking our individual lab under consideration. What that means is that each item on our report is a separate component as opposed to more of a paragraph report. They recommended that we be set up as a clinical pathology test as opposed to an anatomic pathology test. It has really been one problem after another. Our hospital switched to Epic as a whole last October and we are on Epic beaker.