Tim is right on the mark! We use the program PowerPath and we still have a
few different series for surgical, autopsy and cytology. The program uses
Case Types to distinguish samples, consult, GI, etc. From there we can
further subdivide each of those.

Victor Tobias
Pathology Computer Support
University of Washington Medical Center

----- Original Message -----
From: "Morken, Tim" 
To: "'Histonet'" 
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:25 AM
Subject: AP numbering systems: was: RE: A little survey


> Joyce, Sounds like this was set up backwards. Instead of all these
separate
> file systems, why not have one central AP number for all cases and then
> sub-numbering for the different groups. That way you keep everything for
the
> cases together under one number system and it will be easy to retreive all
> relevant info for each case. The subnumbering will still allow you to
break
> out the subgroups as needed.
>
> Tim Morken
> CDC, Atlanta
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weems, Joyce [mailto:JWEEMS@sjha.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: 'Horn, Hazel V'; 'Histonet'
> Subject: RE: A little survey
>
>
> We have:
> S- Surgicals (just consolidated IP and same day surgery this year)
> B- IP Biopsies
> O - OP
> G - GIDU
> BM - bonemarrow
> FL - flow cytometry
> SR - Slide review
> SS - Submitted slides (for our consult)
> R - reference
>
> C - IP non-gyn
> PN- OP non-gyn
> GC - GIDU
> P - OP gyn
> CG - IP gyn
>
> The biggest pain is all the separate file systems.
>
>
> Joyce Weems
> Pathology Manager
> Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
> 404-851-7376
> 404-851-7831 - fax
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Horn, Hazel V [mailto:HornHV@archildrens.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 9:35 AM
> To: Weems, Joyce; 'Histonet'
> Subject: RE: A little survey
>
> We have 3.   One for surgicals, SU.   One for autopsy, AC.   One for
> cytology, CY.
>
> I'm curious as to why you would have so many prefixes?
> Hazel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Weems, Joyce [SMTP:JWEEMS@sjha.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 4:28 PM
> > To: 'Histonet'
> > Subject: A little survey
> >
> > Just checking to see how many different case prefixes there might be. I
> > would like to streamline ours and need info to help push!
> > It would be so much simpler to have just a couple of number families.
> >
> > Many thanks. (We have 16 in AP - ugh!)
> >
> > Joyce Weems