With our present system, Sunquest, is down we prenumber all the cases and
enter them later.  My understanding of the new systems out there is that you
can do the same thing.  When the secretaries accession they will not accept
an auto accession number but type in the appropriate number.

Jennifer MacDonald

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> From: 	Becky Scholes[SMTP:raws43@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:04 AM
> To: 	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	Order Entry
> 
> Fellow AP Histonetters,
> 
> Our lab is shopping for a new computer system, and they all have a feature
> 
> that could turn our accessioning system upside down.  With the system we 
> have now, we apply an accession number to the case with a preprinted 
> computer generated sticker.  (I print 4,000 at a time.) In this way, we
> can 
> gross in over 60 cases first thing in the morning, and the medical 
> secretaries do order entry in the computer whenever they have time.  With 
> the new computer systems, the case has to be entered before you can be 
> assigned an accession number and do gross.  This will really slow us up, 
> especially since the medical secretaries think that now we will be doing
> the 
> order entry.  So now I have to think outside the box.  How do other people
> 
> do it that have heavy work loads and a computer system like the one I will
> 
> have?
> 
> Bec the Tec
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