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Send your Writing!Shanna Pollock, MSB, HTL (ASCP) QIHC, PA.
Anatomic pathology has historically relied on manual systems of tracking and data collection. Bar coding and tracking can be used to capture and manage data as well as help histology create standard work in its processes.
Ashley Troutman, MBA, HT(ASCP), QIHC, CLSSBB.
Anti-static microtome paraffin trays are a great option to reduce the time it takes to clean your equipment. Learn more about the benefits of anti-static trays.
Ashley Troutman, MBA, HT(ASCP), QIHC, CLSSBB.
Cost-effectively managing a large pathology lab while maintaining the high level of quality required by a world-renowned medical center is a difficult balancing act for any hospital administration.
David Newell, MBA, HT(ASCP)CM,
QEH is most interested in having slides assigned to their Pathologists earlier in the day.
Kimberly J. Byrwa-Neff, RN, BA, CPHQ
Rhondalyn Bomkamp, RN, BSN, MBA
Read how the National Consortium of Breast Centers and Leica Biosystems worked with hospitals to improve the quality and efficiencies of their breast programs.
Kimberly J. Byrwa-Neff, RN, BA, CPHQ
Read how an hospital identified opportunities for improvement by comparing their internal data with standards and benchmarks provided by the National Consortium of Breast Centers (NCBC).
William N. DeSalvo III, BS HTL(ASCP)
Today’s hectic laboratory environment is driving the need to increase productivity while at the same time improving quality and patient safety.
Cary S. Kaufman, MD, FACS
Kim Neff, RN, BA, CPHQ
Variation in care delivery and turnaround times can be reduced by accurately examining the patient care path from initial screening mammography to first surgical intervention. We have developed a process to optimize timeliness to initial surgical treatment.
Adam Walter, CSSMBB, CLA, BS
Kimberly J. Byrwa-Neff, RN, BA, CPHQ
Leica Biosystems team of clinical and process experts conducted on site observations of processes, from the time a patient entered the biopsy suite, until the time their pathology report with diagnosis was delivered.
Ugur Ozerdem, M.D., Clinician, Department of Pathology
There is a paradigm shift in breast biopsy philosophy. In the past radiologists and clinicians used to collect as little tissue as possible for pathologists to render a diagnosis on conventional histologic H&E sections.