We used the Cerner system which was designed in the same way.  The beauty of
using it that way is that it keeps you from accidently giving the same
number to two different cases.  However, they did give us a way to reserve
numbers, so we'd reserve a bunch of them, keep a list, and mark off the list
as we  used them.  Perhaps your system has something similar?

Good luck!
----- Original Message -----
From: Weems, Joyce <JWEEMS@sjha.org>
To: 'Becky Scholes' <raws43@hotmail.com>; <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: Order Entry


> Could you print your numbers in a different data base such as Excel? Then
> continue the process as usual? j:>)
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Becky Scholes [SMTP:raws43@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 10:05 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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